Oren Gil-Or Named Vice President of Sales, EMEA and APAC;
Javier Jimenez Named Vice President of Sales, Americas;
HERZLIYA, Israel — November 11, 2008 — BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ: BPHX - News), the leader in value-driven legacy modernization, today announced new sales leadership.
Oren Gil-Or joined BluePhoenix as Vice President of Sales, EMEA and APAC. Javier Jimenez joined BluePhoenix as Vice President of Sales, Americas, replacing Greg Schottland now serving as General Manager of the Company’s ASNA division. A new Chief Marketing Officer will join the company as of December 1st and will be announced separately. The new Chief Marketing Officer will replace David Leichner, who decided to pursue new career opportunities.
Yaron Tchwella, President of BluePhoenix, commented, “With this announcement, we have significantly augmented our sales and marketing leadership, adding these professionals with proven track records for driving sales growth and building lasting customer relationships. I am excited to add them to the BluePhoenix management team.”
The new senior leadership includes:
Oren Gil-Or - a Sales and Marketing professional in the software industry for the past 18 years. Throughout the last 11 years Mr. Gil-Or was with BMC Software and in his last role served as the Senior Director of Marketing, Asia Pacific. In this role, Mr. Gil-Or managed the Asia Pacific marketing, Business Planning and Inside Sales teams. He provided Strategic direction from the product marketing, field marketing and business alignment perspectives, and managed customer relationships in various geographies.
Prior to BMC Software, Mr. Gil-Or served as the international sales director for New Dimension Software. As Sales Director, Mr. Gil-Or managed the worldwide distribution channels with responsibility for co-ordinating the different divisions of the company and building the company’s consulting services group. Mr. Gil-Or holds an MBA from Tel-Aviv University and a BSc in Computers Science from Ben-Gurion University.
Javier Jimenez - a sales professional with vast experience in both North and Latin America. Before joining BluePhoenix, he was the founder and CEO of Scientia Network Solutions, a technology and consulting firm. Prior to Scientia, Mr. Jimenez served as Vice President and General Manager of Comverse Latin America from 2003 to 2008. In this role he had overall responsibility for Sales and Marketing of all Comverse products in South and Central America, and the Caribbean. During his tenure, Mr. Jimenez and his team grew the region significantly to a record revenue level.
Before Comverse, Mr. Jimenez served as the Vice President of Sales Latin America for iWeb Technologies, a start-up manufacturer of Internet messaging and Ad Delivery technology. Mr. Jimenez was responsible for the planning and execution of iWeb’s entry into the Telco and ISP markets. From 1984 to 1994, he held a variety of positions for Lucas Aero Space, specializing in Avionic Weapon Systems.
Mr. Jimenez received a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering through the United States Air Force, and an MBA from the Dowling Institute in New York.
About BluePhoenix Solutions
BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ: BPHX) is a leading provider of value-driven modernization solutions for legacy information systems. BluePhoenix offerings include a comprehensive suite of tools and services from global IT asset assessment and impact analysis to automated database and application migration, re-hosting, and renewal. Leveraging over 20 years of best-practice domain expertise, BluePhoenix works closely with its customers to ascertain which assets should be migrated, redeveloped, or wrapped for reuse as services or business processes, to protect and increase the value of their business applications and legacy systems with minimized risk and downtime.
BluePhoenix provides modernization solutions to companies from diverse industries and vertical markets such as automotive, banking and financial services, insurance, manufacturing, and retail. Among its prestigious customers are: Aflac, CareFirst, Citigroup, Danish Commerce and Companies Agency, Desjardins, Los Angeles County, Employees Retirement Association, Merrill Lynch, Rabobank, Rural Servicios Informáticos, SDC Udvikling, TEMENOS, Toyota and Volvofinans. BluePhoenix has 15 offices in the USA, UK, Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, The Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Cyprus, South Korea, Australia, and Israel.
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