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Nuxeo Expands Global Team With Addition of Cheryl McKinnon as Chief Marketing Officer
Open Source Enterprise Content Management Pioneer Kicks Off Aggressive Staff Recruitment Program
| Source: Nuxeo
BOSTON, MA--(Marketwire - September 28, 2009) - Nuxeo, a leading provider of open source
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software and services, today announced
Cheryl McKinnon as Chief Marketing Officer. McKinnon brings to Nuxeo more
than 16+ years of related industry experience. This key hire is the first
of at least 15 new positions announced to accelerate sales, product
development, and engineering capacity in both Boston and Paris.
"This is an extremely disruptive time in content management in part because
of the tremendous ability of open source to drive rapid innovation. Open
source allows vendors, customers and partners to work together to bring
better solutions to the market faster," said McKinnon. "My move into the
open source segment of the ECM market is the next logical step for me.
Customers are under pressure to derive value from technology investments at
an unprecedented rate. Content management is no longer a frill in today's
knowledge economy -- it's core to business. Nuxeo's open source ECM
platform lets customers focus on their business, invest their limited
resources to get their requirements met quickly and efficiently. Nuxeo ECM
is easily tailored to their needs without any obligation to purchase and
adopt non-essential extras. I'm excited to be part of Nuxeo as they embark
on a global expansion and hiring program. Working with a seasoned
management team, we'll help Nuxeo customers become lean, competitive
leaders in their own knowledge-economy industries."
Most recently, McKinnon was Director, Program Management - Enterprise 2.0
at Open Text, an enterprise software company and leader in enterprise
content management. She also oversaw the company's collaboration content
management and flagship ECM products. Prior to Open Text, McKinnon worked
at Hummingbird, which Open Text later acquired, and PC DOCS.
"Cheryl has a broad spectrum of ECM experience and is a superb marketer,
strategist, trend spotter and evangelist, which makes her the perfect match
for Nuxeo at this point in our growth," said CEO Eric Barroca. "Nuxeo's
open source technology has a deep feature set and rich functionality that
rivals far costlier, cumbersome and complex proprietary ECM systems. With
350+ customers, tens of thousand of downloads, nearly 65 percent of sales
outside of France, and a strong demand from the North American market,
Cheryl will be instrumental in helping Nuxeo evolve into a global force."
McKinnon is actively involved with key industry associations such as AIIM
and ARMA. She is a noted speaker, having presented at events throughout
North America, Europe, Asia and Australia, and published thought-leader on
topics such as information governance, compliance in the era of Web. 2.0,
demographic shifts in the online workplace, and unique information
management needs of public sector. McKinnon holds a BA (Hons) from the
University of Winnipeg, Master of Arts from Carleton University and has
completed required coursework towards a PhD at the University of Ottawa.
Her blog can be found at: http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com.
About Nuxeo
Nuxeo's enterprise content management suite provides a cost-effective,
modular, flexible open source solution for managing information. A pioneer
in the open source ECM market, Nuxeo is used by more than 350 customers
worldwide, including The Press Association, Agence France-Presse (AFP),
EllisDon and Cengage. Companies of all sizes across all industries,
including media, government, transportation, education and energy sectors,
use the Nuxeo Enterprise Platform to meet their specific content enabled
vertical applications (CEVA) needs. The company also offers support,
training and professional consulting services to its customers and partners
worldwide. Headquartered in Paris, the company has global offices in North
America (Boston), Western Europe (Paris, Madrid and Rome), Eastern Europe
(Moscow), and the Middle East (Dubai). More information is available at
www.nuxeo.com.