Pine Cone Appts. Vice President North America Sales;
Hires CFO and Launches UK Operations
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Pine Cone Systems Inc., a provider of data warehousing administration and management solutions, announced the appointment of key new members of its management team in the areas of sales and finance.
In addition, the company announced it has established operations in the United Kingdom where it will provide sales, marketing, technical support, training and consulting services to the UK marketplace for its data warehousing management solutions.
Joining Pine Cone Systems as Vice President of North American sales is Barry Fischel, previously with Business Objects, a provider of integrated enterprise decision support tools. At Business Objects, Fischel served as vice president of sales, North America where he managed a 100-person field organization. During his tenure at Business Objects, Fischel also served as director of consulting and director of channels. Prior to that, Fischel spent three years with Oracle Corp. where he served as district sales manager and channel accounts manager, as well as sales positions with Software AG. Fischel, who will lead Pine Cone's sales efforts in North America, reports to Pine Cone President and CEO Dennis McCann.
Also joining Pine Cone's management team as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is Connell I. Saltzman Jr. Saltzman joins Pine Cone from Customer Insight Co., a wholly owned subsidiary of Experian North America. In his role as vice president and CFO, Saltzman was responsible for all aspects of the company's finances, including management of cash balances, lease lines, lines of credit, subordinated debt, customer contract negotiations and human resources. Prior to Customer Insight, Saltzman was vice president, finance at a privately held resort management company and a partner with a national CPA firm.
Pine Cone Opens UK Office
In addition to the management appointments, Pine Cone announced the formation of Pine Cone Systems Europe Ltd. and that Mark Callen, a 15-year sales and marketing veteran, will serve as managing director of Pine Cone Systems UK. Callen comes to Pine Cone from Informix Software (UK) Ltd., where he most recently served as commercial business manager for the UK and Ireland, developing marketing strategies as well as the establishment and management of business partner and distribution channels for UK and European operations. While at Informix, Callen was Northern Europe's top salesman in 1996. Prior to Informix, Callen served as UK sales and marketing manager for Information Dimensions.
"We are very pleased to announce these strong additions to the Pine Cone management team, as well as the launch of our UK operations," said Pine Cone President and CEO Dennis McCann. "With the continued maturation of the data warehouse marketplace, the demand for Pine Cone's data warehousing management software solutions is growing rapidly, and we are building a seasoned management team to guide us through our next growth phase as well as our expansion into the UK and beyond."
About Pine Cone Systems
Pine Cone Systems, founded by Bill Inmon, the father of the data warehouse concept and industry's leading data warehousing authority, was first to market with the only complete set of software tools specifically designed to help companies proactively manage their data warehouse and data mart environments. Usage Tracker, Content Tracker and several other key products now deliver information about the warehouse that has been largely unavailable or difficult and costly to obtain -- information such as who uses the warehouse, what data is being accessed and how the contents have changed over time.
Pine Cone's most recent offering, Meta Exchange, takes a revolutionary approach to metadata management -- it allows you to share, own and distribute metadata across heterogeneous technologies in distributed environments with automatic synchronization. Meta Exchange resolves the age-old conflict between shareability and autonomy using patented technology where each unit of metadata has only one owner, but can be shared throughout the enterprise. This unique approach eliminates the proprietary hold of centralized repositories and provides a unified view of both business and technical metadata.
Pine Cone's products are available on most hardware platforms and support Oracle, Sybase, Informix, DB2, and NCR/Teradata databases. The company's partners include: Brio Technology, Business Architecture Group, Business Objects, Cognos, Digital Equipment Corp., Fiserv, Hewlett-Packard, Informatica, Information Advantage, Informix Software, Intelligent Solutions, NCR, Oracle, Prism Solutions, StorageTek, Sun Microsystems, and Sybase. For more information, see http://www.pine-cone.com