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Saffron Taps Ian Hersey as Chief Product Officer [Health & Beauty Close - Up](Health & Beauty Close - Up Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Saffron Technology, a cognitive computing company, announced that Ian Hersey has joined the company as Chief Product Officer. According to a release, Hersey joins Saffron after over two decades of leadership in unstructured data analysis, multilingual natural language processing and social media monitoring and analysis. Most recently, he was Chief Product Officer at InTTENSITY and CTO of Attensity. Prior to that, the company noted, Hersey co-founded and spent over ten years with Inxight Software, where he created a commercial text analysis product suite that is still utilized by many of the world's most elite companies following Inxight's acquisition by SAP. With Saffron, Hersey will be responsible for running the entire product organization. "This newly created post of Chief Product Officer will be instrumental in propelling Saffron's Natural Intelligence Platform as the leader in next generation cognitive systems," said Gayle Sheppard, Saffron CEO. "We are fortunate to have Ian join us, as his experience developing truly innovative data analytics technology is ideally suited for this leadership role." "I've been aware of Saffron for many years. The core technology is rock solid, and enables the company to do what others cannot -- unify disparate data sources and find actionable knowledge in the data," explained Hersey. "Together we can fully exploit that potential. We'll scale to reach new customers and deliver more functionality and value to existing customers." More information: www.saffrontech ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) (c) 2014 ProQuest Information and Learning Company; All Rights Reserved. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ] |