[March 08, 2010] Active Navigation Launches US Operations Tweet RESTON, Va. & HOUSTON --(Business Wire)-- Information Governance and Legacy Content Management company, Active Navigation have established US headquarters in Reston, Virginia and Houston, Texas to serve the North American market. Active Navigation has assembled a core team of experts to drive business in the new region. Becky Thomas brings 25 years of experience in enterprise content management with her to lead sales for the team. Her credentials include working with key players such as Meridio. Andrew Payze will lead delivery operations for the US and Active Navigation veteran, Steve Matthews will lead business development. BIOS Active Navigation provides software that enable organizations such as BAE Systems (News - Alert), the US Department of Defense, British Petroleum and the Royal Navy to take control of their unstructured legacy content and information. Active Navigation's advanced linguistic and statistical analysis engine provides comprehensive metadata, categorization, tagging and summaries of all content in preparation for migration to such systems as Microsoft (News - Alert) Office SharePoint. "The North American market presents a huge growth opportunity for Active Navigation," said Peter Baumann, CEO of Active Navigation. "Our established credentials in oil & gas and defense make these markets an ideal starting point for our launch into the region." Note to Editors Active Navigation will exhibiting in booth (K2) at the GARTNER Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit, Baltimore, MD., during March 9-11, 2010. Join Active Navigation for a webinar on how to clean up your "Digital Landfill" on March 12, 2010 at 11:00 AM EST: http://www.activenavigation.com/info.php About Active Navigation Active Navigation is a privately held company with offices in the United Kingdom and United States of America. Active Navigation's customers include the US Department of Defense, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, The Cabinet Office, IHS (News - Alert) Jane's, Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, and Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service. It is one of eight companies named in recent Gartner report, Dataquest Insight: Innovative Emerging U.K. IT Providers Find Challenges and Opportunities. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]