Contact Information: Press Contacts: John Schoutsen Sage Software (905) 267-2873 john.schoutsen@sage.com Shana Keith Porter Novelli (404) 995-4557 shana.keith@porternovelli.com
Sage North America Appoints Motasim Najeeb as CTO
| Source: Sage North America
IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - January 6, 2009) - Sage North America announced today that Motasim
Najeeb has been appointed Chief Technology Officer reporting to Sage North
America CEO Sue Swenson. In this role Mr. Najeeb is responsible for
providing technology leadership for Sage North America. He will work
closely with business leaders and R&D teams across Sage North America and
collaborate with technology leaders from Sage worldwide.
"Motasim brings an impressive track record of strong technical leadership
that's focused on the needs of customers," said Ms. Swenson. "As CTO he
will play a critical role in leveraging our technology assets across North
America so we deliver competitive and innovative products that enable our
customers to better manage their business processes."
Mr. Najeeb has more than 20 years of technology and management experience
in the enterprise software industry. Most recently, he served as the CTO
and EVP of Engineering and Operations at TradeBeam where he was responsible
for product strategy, development, and IT operations. Prior to TradeBeam,
he was the Group Vice President of Enterprise applications at Oracle with
responsibility for all PeopleSoft ERP product lines. Mr. Najeeb was the
General Manager of the Strategic Development Division at WebMD Corporation
and the founding member of the team that grew WebMD from a start-up to a
successful public company with revenue of more than $300 million. Earlier
in his career, he held senior management positions at Silicon Graphics,
Tandem and Intel Corporations.
"I am very excited to join Sage, a world class business management software
company that delivers compelling applications for the SMB segment," said
Najeeb. "Sage offers a rich portfolio of strong brand name products backed
by talented teams with a relentless focus on delivering outstanding
customer experience and satisfaction."
About Sage North America
Sage North America is part of The Sage Group plc, a leading global supplier
of business management software and services. At Sage, we live and breathe
business every day. We are passionate about helping our customers achieve
their ambitions. Our range of business software and services is continually
evolving as we innovate to answer our customers' needs. Our solutions
support accounting, operations, customer relationship management, human
resources, time tracking, merchant services and the specialized needs of
the construction, distribution, healthcare, manufacturing, nonprofit and
real estate industries. Sage North America employs approximately 4,800
people and supports 2.9 million small and medium-size business customers.
The Sage Group plc, formed in 1981, was floated on the London Stock
Exchange in 1989 and now employs more than 14,500 people and supports more
than 5.8 million customers worldwide. For more information, please visit
the web site at www.sagenorthamerica.com or call 866-308-2378.
© 2009 Sage Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Sage, Sage Software, Sage
logos and the Sage product and service names mentioned herein are
registered trademarks or trademarks of Sage Software, Inc. or its
affiliated entities. All other trademarks are the property of their
respective owners.