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TrueDemand Opens Atlanta Office and Expands Executive Management Team
Former Oracle and Manhattan Associates Executive, Greg Gilbert, Named VP of Services and Will Lead New Atlanta Office; Kevin Brooks of Ariba and Apexon Named VP of Marketing
| Source: TrueDemand Software
LOS GATOS, CA--(Marketwire - June 26, 2007) - TrueDemand Software, a leader in "shelf-back"
supply chain solutions, today announced the appointment of two senior
executives to the company's management team and the opening of an office in
Atlanta, Georgia, to support TrueDemand's growing customer base in the
consumer packaged goods and retail industries.
Former Oracle and Manhattan Associates executive, Greg Gilbert, joins as
vice president of services and will lead the new Atlanta office. Kevin
Brooks, who has held senior marketing positions with Ariba and Apexon,
joins as TrueDemand's vice president of marketing. Together, Gilbert and
Brooks bring more than 30 years of experience working with companies in the
technology, retail, supply chain and consumer packaged goods industries.
Both will report to TrueDemand CEO Eric Peters and will play central roles
in setting and executing TrueDemand's strategy, growing company awareness
and continuing to expand its customer base.
"Our business is growing because companies are interested in our vision for
the shelf-back supply chain and the solutions we offer," said Eric Peters,
CEO of TrueDemand. "Both Greg and Kevin bring a wealth of management and
leadership experience to TrueDemand, including proven track records in
growing businesses. They will be huge assets in helping us achieve our
strategic objectives as we help our customers become more efficient and
increase revenues."
For consumer goods companies, growing year-over-year sales requires total
visibility into each store's demand for goods on a real-time basis.
TrueDemand Software's
"shelf-back" approach delivers on this promise by pinpointing demand much
faster and with greater accuracy than any alternative solution on the
market. TrueDemand has a patented method for efficiently using data from
across the entire supply chain, including store level sales and inventory
movement information and point of sale (POS) data. The result dramatically
lifts sales by driving profitable actions across a finely tuned supply
chain from the retail shelf back to the retail supplier.
As vice president of services, Greg Gilbert will be leading the Atlanta
office with responsibility for the company's customer service operations.
Gilbert joins the company with more than 10 years of consulting and
software development experience in supply chain solutions. Most recently,
Gilbert was director of strategy at Oracle, where he oversaw the
application strategy for the portfolio of products in the Retail Global
Business Unit. Prior to joining Oracle, Gilbert led product strategy groups
at Manhattan Associates, Inc., where he directed development of the
company's RFID offerings. He was also responsible for the guidance and
development of Manhattan Associates business intelligence and performance
management solutions. In addition, Gilbert has been a featured presenter at
a number of leading industry and academic sessions on both supply chain and
RFID related topics.
Kevin Brooks brings over 17 years of software marketing experience to
TrueDemand. As vice president of marketing, he will be responsible for the
company's marketing strategy and operations. Most recently, Brooks was vice
president of marketing for Apexon, a provider of on-demand supply
management solutions for manufacturers that was named a "company to watch"
by the editors of Managing Automation. Brooks also spent six years at
Ariba, Inc., where he led global marketing efforts to build and grow the
"spend management" solutions category, including co-founding an
industry-leading blog and directing strategic corporate marketing
programs, sales messaging, executive communications, global public
relations, analyst relations and advertising. Prior to Ariba, Brooks held
senior marketing positions at Automatic Data Processing (ADP).
About TrueDemand (www.tdemand.com)
TrueDemand Software provides a new class of predictive supply chain
solutions that help solve supply chain execution, replenishment and
planning problems to reduce out-of-stocks and excess inventory. By
combining event information with TrueDemand's business solutions,
organizations can better manage the live replenishment of inventory from
production through sale across the supply-and-demand network. As a result,
customers can better anticipate and proactively remedy supply chain
problems before they occur, gaining greater value from their supply chain
investments. Headquartered in Los Gatos, California, the company is backed
by leading venture capital firms Mayfield and Bay Partners. Visit
www.tdemand.com for more information.