George Wright Named Senior Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide
Field Operations; Industry Veteran Joseph Murray Joins As
Senior Vice President of Professional Services
SAN MATEO, Calif., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- E.piphany, Inc.
(Nasdaq: EPNY), a full-suite provider of customer relationship management
(CRM) solutions, today announced that it has promoted George Wright to the
position of Senior Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Field
Operations. In his new role, Mr. Wright will now be responsible for worldwide
operations of sales, professional services, support renewals and customer
education. The Company also announced that Joseph Murray has joined the
company as Senior Vice President of Professional Services. Mr. Murray is
responsible for E.piphany's worldwide professional services organization, with
a focus on supporting E.piphany's partners and customers in the successful
deployments of E.piphany solutions.
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"George's breadth of experience and infectious enthusiasm have long been
invaluable assets to E.piphany, and we are pleased to announce his promotion,"
said Karen Richardson, CEO of E.piphany. "We look forward to the contributions
that George and Joe will bring to the operational management of the company as
we continue to solidify our market leadership position and promote customer
success worldwide."
Mr. Wright has 20 years of sales and sales management experience in the
technology sector. He joined E.piphany in June 1998 as Area Vice President of
Western Sales. In January 2001, he was promoted to Senior Vice President
& General Manager Americas. Mr. Wright came to E.piphany with extensive
experience in running successful sales operations and a track record of
achieving revenue targets and exceeding business objectives. Prior to
E.piphany, Mr. Wright was a sales director at Netscape Communications
Corporation, where he managed direct sales during a time when the company's
sales grew over 600%. Prior to Netscape, he held a number of sales and sales
management positions in both New York and Los Angeles for Oracle Corporation
and NCR Corporation. George holds a B.S. in Business from State University of
New York, Plattsburgh. He volunteers his time with the PTSA, YMCA and his
local community.
Mr. Murray joins E.piphany after 15 years with BearingPoint (formerly KPMG
Consulting) where he was most recently Managing Director of Contact Center
Solutions for the Financial Services Industry. Mr. Murray was a charter member
of KPMG Consulting's CRM practice, and in his tenure has worked extensively
with all of the major CRM vendors across nearly every vertical industry. With
17 years experience working in the CRM arena, he is one of the most
experienced professionals in the industry, with knowledge across the broad CRM
application space, as well as CRM Strategy and business process redesign
projects. Mr. Murray holds a B.S. in Decision Information Science from Santa
Clara University. He is active in volunteering his time with AYSO and his
local community.
About E.piphany
The E.piphany(R) E.6(TM) Suite of CRM software solutions enables global
organizations to create a Customer Integrated Enterprise and align
touchpoints, processes and technologies around the customer. Built on the
industry's most advanced, component-based platform, the E.6 software solution
creates benefits that cross departments and geographies, and result in rapid,
measurable ROI. With the E.6 Suite of Marketing, Service and Sales software
solutions, every customer interaction is driven by real-time intelligence,
enabling businesses to better understand their customers and optimize every
interaction from both a revenue generation and customer retention viewpoint.
More than 460 companies, including nearly 40 of the Fortune 100, use E.piphany
software products to enhance their customers' experiences while, at the same
time, realizing the companies' business objectives. With worldwide
headquarters in San Mateo, CA, E.piphany serves customers in more than
40 countries worldwide. For more information, visit us at http://www.epiphany.com.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including
statements relating to E.piphany's continued achievement of strategic
milestones, successful selling efforts, and growth of existing customer
engagements. Actual results could differ materially from such forward-looking
statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from
the forward-looking statements include the degree of interest in and
acceptance of E.piphany's new products, increases in the length of E.piphany's
sales cycles, reduced IT spending by customers and potential customers, the
introduction of new products and services by competitors and intense
competition generally, our ability to hire and retain qualified personnel, and
general and industry-specific economic conditions. These factors and others
are described in more detail in our public reports filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, such as those discussed in the "Risk Factors" section
included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q and
in our prior press releases. E.piphany assumes no duty to update
forward-looking statements.
NOTE: E.piphany and the E.piphany logo are registered trademarks and E6
is a trademark of E.piphany, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of
their respective owners.
SOURCE E.piphany, Inc.
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