expressor software Builds on Company Launch with Next Phase of Growth
2008-07-16 07:00:00
In preparation for rapid market and customer growth, data integration
startup adds industry veterans to executive team and announces executive
appointments
BURLINGTON, Mass.–(EMWNews)–expressor software corporation, the leader in semantic data integration
software, announced today the addition of two industry veterans to its
executive team. Frank Fallon joins expressor as vice president of sales
and business development and Dr. Michael Waclawiczek as vice president
of marketing and product management. In addition, Steve Frechette,
formerly senior director of engineering at expressor, has been promoted
to vice president of engineering. The three executives report to Bob
Potter, expressor’s chief executive officer.
The company made these appointments in preparation for the next phase of
rapid growth after successfully launching its next generation semantic
data integration systemtm into the market in
May (see press release entitled “introducing
expressor 1.0 – redefining data integration”).
Frank Fallon is responsible for expressor’s worldwide sales and business
development efforts, including building a direct field and inside sales
organization and establishing global alliances with complementary
technology vendors, resellers, systems integrators and solution
providers. With more than 20 years of sales and management experience,
Frank joins expressor from BEA, where as Senior VP Americas he managed a
team of 400 sales professionals and was directly responsible for all
North and South American license business of $230MM. Prior to BEA, Frank
held executive positions at enterprise software companies including
SeeBeyond, Tivoli Systems and Sybase.
Dr. Michael Waclawiczek is responsible for driving expressor’s overall
marketing strategy including product management, field marketing,
marketing communications, analyst and public relations, and brand
management. As acting VP of Marketing since February 2008, Michael was
responsible for the successful marketing launch of the company and
product in May. In his 20+ years in high tech, he has launched more than
a dozen software products that have generated more than $1B in revenues.
Prior to joining expressor, Michael held senior marketing and product
management executive positions at StreamBase Systems, Kalido, and IONA
Technologies.
Steve Frechette is responsible for all aspects of product development
and delivery at expressor software. Within the first year, Steve
established expressor’s engineering
organization and delivered the first release of the expressor semantic
data integration system in mid July. With more than 18 years of
engineering management, technical architecture and software development
experience, he brings a depth in software and technology from his senior
roles at Blue Agave, Oberon and IBM Lotus.
According to CEO Bob Potter, “We have just brought to market our
semantic data integration system, which takes data integration to a
whole new level of ease of use and performance and introduces a highly
affordable channel-based pricing model. We are very excited about the
reception thus far from our early adopters and prospective customers, as
well as industry analysts we’ve briefed over
the past three months. The addition of these three key executives, all
of whom have long-standing track records of customer and market success,
will enable us to capitalize upon our tremendous opportunity and
redefine the competitive landscape in data integration.”
“Frank’s leadership and expertise will be crucial in rapidly
establishing our channel and partner strategies as we develop a global
presence in 2009. Steve continues to be instrumental in our efforts to
rapidly broaden and further enhance our product suite in the coming
releases. Additionally, I have worked with Michael at several previous
companies and am very confident in his ability to establish a strong
market presence for us and drive the overall product strategy for the
company.”
For more information on these executive appointments, visit www.expressor-software.com/about-us-leadership.htm.
about expressor software
expressor software tackles the complexity and cost of enterprise IT
projects with data integration software that delivers breakthrough
development productivity and data processing performance at a
significant price/performance advantage. expressor’s
patent-pending semantic data integration system has been designed from
the ground up – based on common business
terms – that enable collaborative, role-based
team development, business rule reuse and end-to-end project lifecycle
management.
expressor was founded in 2003 by experienced data integration and data
warehousing practitioners and executives. The company is headquartered
in Burlington, MA and is funded by Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma
Partners. For more information visit www.expressor-software.com.
©2008 expressor software corporation.
expressor, expressor semantic data integration system, smart semantics,
and redefining data integration are trademarks of expressor software
corporation. All other trademarks or trade names are properties of their
respective owners. All rights reserved.
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