AccuRev Inc. today announced its 23rd consecutive growth quarter and subsequently the expansion of its senior management team. Stephen Leahy has joined AccuRev as Vice President of Worldwide Sales, reporting to the CEO. Mr. Leahy is responsible for the overall growth and direction of AccuRev worldwide sales execution as the Company expands its sales, operations and distribution channels for its process-centric software configuration management (SCM) solution.
LEXINGTON, Mass. (Business Wire EON) November 20, 2007 --
AccuRev Inc. today announced its 23rd
consecutive growth quarter and subsequently the expansion of its senior
management team. Stephen Leahy has joined AccuRev as Vice President of
Worldwide Sales, reporting to the CEO. Mr. Leahy is responsible for the
overall growth and direction of AccuRev worldwide sales execution as the
Company expands its sales, operations and distribution channels for its
process-centric software
configuration management (SCM) solution.
Leahy joins AccuRev with more than 25 years of experience in enterprise
software sales and sales management. Mr. Leahy also has direct
experience with SCM
through several years as Director at Pure Atria prior to its acquisition
by Rational Software. Prior to AccuRev, Mr. Leahy held the positions of
Vice President World Wide Sales for Empirix, where he delivered 25-30
percent year on year business growth world wide; Vice President,
Worldwide Sales and Service for Frictionless Commerce; and Vice
President, Americas for Calico Commerce, where he managed the growth of
the business from $5M to $40M in revenue in just two years, built the
presales and sales organizations to more than 80 people and led the
company through an IPO.
Denis LeBlanc, who has years of experience managing sales teams from
California, will continue to drive revenue growth for AccuRev out of the
west and be an integral contributor to AccuRev’s
strategic sales direction for that region.
A leading market intelligence, and advisory services company has
indicated AccuRev as the fastest growing SCM company, growing at a rate
over twice that of the next leading SCM vendor. AccuRev holds a unique
position in the software configuration management market by offering an
innovative stream-based solution that is efficient, powerful and agile,
while meeting the functionality and scalability needs of enterprise
organizations facing today’s most complex
development scenarios.
Lorne Cooper, president and CEO, AccuRev, said, “Steve’s
experience building sales organizations, growing companies in the
enterprise software markets and strong familiarity with SCM makes him a
great addition to our executive team. His focus on sales and marketing
alignment to drive revenue growth will further benefit AccuRev as we
continue to expand US and European sales operations. AccuRev is very
fortunate to have both Denis and Steve on board. They both are
experienced sales leaders, and both have experience selling software
tools that became market leaders at Atria, Pure Software, and Pure Atria.”
About AccuRev Inc.
AccuRev’s software configuration management
(SCM) solution is architected to solve the problems associated with today’s
complex and changing software development environments, while bridging
the needs of both developers and managers to improve productivity with a
lower total cost of ownership. The AccuRev interface, with integrated
issue-based workflow, advanced visualization, process
automation, and artifact traceability, improves collaboration,
visibility and management of multiple
releases developed in parallel for geographically
distributed or outsourced teams to remain agile and competitive.
AccuRev supports open standards and SOA-based development tool
interoperability across Microsoft Windows, Linux, and UNIX platforms and
provides native support for the most commonly used software development
methodologies including Agile,
iterative, and waterfall. AccuRev, the fastest growing SCM company and
two-time Jolt Product
Excellence Award recipient, is used by a growing number of global
enterprises including American Airlines, Orbitz, Polycom, Thomson
Financial, Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin. AccuRev, Inc. is
headquartered in Lexington, Massachusetts and is privately held. More
information about AccuRev can be found at http://www.accurev.com,
or by calling 1-800-383-8170 (US and Canada), and 1-781-861-8700
(Outside North America).
Copyright © 2007 AccuRev, Inc. AccuRev is a
registered trademark of AccuRev, Inc. All other trademarks mentioned in
this release are the property of their respective owners.
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