Emportal Appoints Senior Executive to Head Development
Continued Expansion of Executive Team to Augment Company's Customer Momentum
| Source: Emportal
WALNUT CREEK, CA--(Marketwire - October 7, 2008) - Uniting the way business works with the
way people work, Emportal today announced that Chris Bavelock, a software
engineering management professional with 25 years' experience, has joined
the company as vice president of Development. Bavelock will lead the
company's product development efforts.
"Emportal meets the needs of our customers through a fresh approach to the
HRMS market. Chris will be an integral contributor as we continue to add
functionality to our core product offerings," said Mark Robinson,
Emportal's co-founder, president and CEO. "His extensive experience in
software development and his proven track record delivering commercial
software targeting Fortune 1000 customers will prove invaluable in
achieving our strategic goals."
Bavelock joins Emportal from Bridgestream Inc, where he was director of
engineering. His previous professional experience includes being the
founder and vice president of engineering at OpCo, a healthcare software
solutions company. Earlier in his career, he was senior director of
engineering at Commerce One and worked at Bank of America and Advanced
Micro Devices. He earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of
Massachusetts, Lowell.
Bavelock commented, "I am excited to join the company that is dedicated to
becoming the number one HRMS on the market. Emportal's focus on providing
customers with an HRMS that leverages the intuitive Microsoft Office 2007
user interface, coupled with the best elements in HRO, marks Emportal as
the leading edge vendor in the HR market. I look forward to supporting this
momentum."
About Emportal
Emportal was founded in 2005 to enable companies to choose and integrate
the best HR vendors and services for their businesses, while at the same
time having them delivered through a single, flexible, coordinated,
integrated, highly scalable, modular and managed enterprise platform.
Comprehensively supporting and managing the workforce of both today and
tomorrow -- an ever-changing mix of employees, vendors, and alternative
labor sources (independent contractors, temporary workers, consultants,
etc.) -- Emportal truly delivers a "have it your way" blend of next
generation technology and services. More information can be accessed at
http://www.emportal.com/.