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Pentaho Hires Heavy Hitter To Head EuropeOpen Source Business Intelligence leader poaches from Sun/OracleStockholm May 4, 2010 – Pentaho Corporation, the open source business intelligence (BI) leader, today announced the appointment of Vinay Joosery to the new role of VP of Sales, for the EMEA (Europe Middle East and Asia) region. Joosery joins Pentaho from BI rival Oracle, where he held senior roles in the Open Source sales teams acquired from Sun’s MySQL division. Based in Stockholm, he will be responsible for continuing the sales growth, which has produced two successive record sales quarters for Pentaho. This strategy will see the expansion of sales capabilities through the region, both through extensive channel partnerships and additions to the Salesforce. Commenting on his new role, Joosery said: “Pentaho is pioneering the commercialization of a very popular open source product at the very time that many organizations are looking for just such a solution. It is great to see first-hand the real business value that customers are taking today from our offerings. After seven years in sales at the pioneering MySQL, there is no better professional challenge.” Richard Daley, CEO of Pentaho said: “As the clear leader in commercial open source BI, Pentaho is attracting more attention. Our recent launch, the most successful in our history, is creating a wealth of sales opportunities and we are stepping up our game accordingly. Vinay brings the skill set that will propel our European operations forward at this critical time and build a sales operation that properly service customers and partners across the region.” Multimedia ContentRead guest blog post by Vinay Joosery on the Business Intelligence from the Swamp Blog at http://blog.pentaho.com/2010/05/04/welcomevinayjoosery/ Visit the Pentaho digital newsroom - Find out what’s new at Pentaho and join the conversation on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn http://www.pentaho.com/news/
About Pentaho CorporationPentaho Corporation is the open source business intelligence leader. Thousands of global organizations deploy Pentaho software to make faster and better business decisions that positively impact their bottom lines. Pentaho provides a comprehensive BI suite that includes capabilities for data integration/ETL, modeling, data mining, analysis, reporting and dashboards. The Pentaho BI suite supports the company’s Agile BI initiative, which enables organizations to build BI applications more quickly, respond to business changes more easily and expedite time-to-value for up to 90% less cost than traditional BI vendors. Pentaho was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Orlando, FL, USA. For more information, visit www.pentaho.com.Pentaho Media ContactUS & WorldwideEastwick Communications 650 480-4054 Pentaho@eastwick.com Europe Positive Marketing Paul Maher Office: +44 7900 600013 | Direct: +44 5600 9210120 contact@positivemarketing.org
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