ACCEPT SOFTWARE DRIVES WORLDWIDE GROWTH
Borland Veteran Joins Innovator of Enterprise Product Planning and Requirements Management to Expand Global Reach
FREMONT, CA —Jan. 24, 2007—Accept Software Corporation™ today announced that Chris Purrington has joined its executive team to increase the company’s presence in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). With over 20 years of software industry experience in building sales, solid alliances and strong brands across EMEA, Mr. Purrington joins Accept Software to develop industry partner and customer relationships in the region.
Accept 360° is a software platform for managing innovation and product planning, for both current and future products. The system allows distributed product teams, including product managers, strategic planners, and product engineers, to collaborate in making and implementing the best decisions about which products to build and which features to include. Accept 360°’s capacity to manage requirements and cross-product dependencies in the context of products, portfolios, competitors, and resources give Accept Software’s customers unparalleled abilities to make intelligent decisions about how to improve today’s products and to identify tomorrow’s.
“Accept is a world-class technology company ideally positioned to grow and support a robust international business. Joining Accept Software at this time in my career is very exciting because companies across EMEA have been waiting for a comprehensive product planning and requirements management solution,” commented Chris Purrington, vice president of International. “Products are being conceived, built and released by distributed international teams; product planning, from both the top-down and the bottom-up, is more critical than ever before. Accept’s ability to deliver either on-demand or on-premise makes the solution even more compelling.”
“I am very pleased to welcome Chris Purrington to the team,” said James Davies, CEO, Accept Software. “Chris’ vast experience across EMEA within our core markets of product planning, requirements management and product road-mapping is invaluable to our international expansion.”
Biography Chris Purrington, VP of International
With over 20 years of software industry experience, Chris spearheads Accept Software’s expansion outside North America and Canada. Chris comes to Accept from Borland, where he led the transition from a channel sales model to direct enterprise sales in EMEA, and where he also closed the biggest deal in the company’s history. Prior to Borland, Chris was the UK General Manager and Group Financial Controller for Uniplex. Chris is a Fellow of the UK Chartered Institute of Certified Accountants, and is a graduate of the University of the South Bank, London.
About Accept Software
Accept Software provides a comprehensive web-based solution for enterprise product planning and innovation management. Leading software organizations throughout the world use the award-winning Accept 360° application suite to deliver better products to market faster. Accept Software is headquartered in Fremont, California and serves a growing customer base that includes Galileo®, Tekla Corporation, VozTelecom, BEA Systems, Symantec Corporation, Mercury Interactive, and Cadence Design Systems. For more information, visit www.acceptsoftware.com.
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