[August 03, 2004] Epiance Corporation Appoints Stephen Turner Executive Vice President of Field Operations MILPITAS, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- Aug. 3, 2004 -- Turner, 20-Year Veteran of Enterprise Software Industry, Former Allegis and SAP Executive, Joins Company to Direct Business Process Improvement (BPI) Software Sales Force Epiance Corporation, a leading innovator of business process improvement and performance support software, today announced the appointment of Stephen Turner as Executive Vice President of Field Operations. Turner brings to Epiance more than 20 years of global enterprise software industry sales and business development experience highlighted by a track record of consistent revenue growth. Turner assumes his role at Epiance as the company expands its sales force, bolstered by a recent investment of $7.5 million in financing, and readies to release its latest business process improvement (BPI) software in the first quarter of 2005. Turner was responsible for world wide field operations for Allegis Corporation, a pioneer in the partner relationship management (PRM) business software industry. As Vice President, he led sales, services and business development. During his three year tenure, he increased revenues by four hundred percent to approximately $12 million, which led to the company's acquisition by Click Commerce, a leading provider of PRM software in March of 2003. Prior to Allegis, Turner was Vice President of Field Operations for SAP America where he had overall P&L responsibility for the $100 million operation. Most recently, Turner was president and chief executive officer of Chutney Technologies, Inc. Turner was brought to Chutney to transform the engineering-focused company to an enterprise, sales-driven organization. He led the merger of Chutney Technologies and Adeosoft Corporation, and he established marquee customer and partner relationships resulting in a second round of funding from new and existing investors. "Stephen is a valuable addition to our executive team. His ability to increase revenue and build out significant relationships in the enterprise market will be vital as we expand our portfolio of global customers," remarked Shankar Ramamurthy, Chief Executive Officer at Epiance. "With Stephen's help we will further establish Epiance as a leader in the business process improvement market." Epiance also announced today the addition of two senior directors, Rahual Saxena and Kevin Tsurutome. Rahul Saxena has joined Epiance as Senior Director of Professional Services. Saxena was formerly with IBM Corporation where he consulted on business process improvement projects, including business process design, construction, and deployment. Kevin Tsurutome joined the company as Senior Director of Marketing. Tsurutome has more than 12 years of product management and marketing experience in the enterprise, e-commerce and Internet markets. He led various enterprise product management and marketing efforts for Netscape, and was Co-founder and Vice President of Product Management for Crossweave, a pioneering web services solutions provider, acquired by AmberPoint Inc. in 2003. Throughout the next twelve months, Epiance will continue to grow its sales and marketing teams in the United States as well as its research and development force in India. About Epiance Corporation Epiance is the premier provider of business process improvement and performance support software solutions. The foundation for Epiance's solutions is Epiplex, the award-winning, patent pending software which automatically captures ongoing business processes, enabling businesses to rapidly document, measure, analyze, monitor, and improve business-critical processes. With offices in North America and Asia, Epiance has partners in Telecommunications, Government, Manufacturing and Healthcare markets worldwide. The company's portfolio of more than 35 customers includes Merrill Lynch, Aetna, Morgan Stanley, General Motors, SBC, Mitsubishi, Toyota, Nippon Steel, Cannon, Microsoft and IBM. For more information, please visit the Epiance website at http://www.epiance.com/. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]