Keynote Appoints New Vice President and Managing Director for EMEA
• Haran Sold, Former Oracle/PeopleSoft Executive, Joins Keynote Assuming Responsibilities for Europe, Middle East and Africa Operations and Sales
• Appointment Underscores Keynote’s Aggressive Growth in Overseas Markets
• Keynote’s Global Footprint Gives it a Strategic Advantage to Assist EMEA E-Businesses Monitor and Measure Web Success for Service Levels and Customer Experience
San Mateo, Calif., — July 21, 2005 — Today, Keynote Systems (Nasdaq:KEYN), the worldwide leader in e-business performance management services, announced that Haran Sold, former director of product marketing and business development for the manufacturing and distribution sector across Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) for Oracle/PeopleSoft, has been named Vice President and Managing Director for the EMEA region for Keynote. In this position, Sold assumes responsibility for sales, operations and professional services, including Keynote’s service level management (SLM) and customer experience management (CEM) solutions to expand and increase Keynote’s market share outside of the United States. Mr. Sold reports to Patrick Quirk, executive vice president of worldwide customer operations.
"As the only global player providing both IT service level and customer experience management solutions, Keynote is well positioned to help EMEA e-business achieve its goals," said Patrick Quirk, executive vice president of worldwide customer operations at Keynote. "Both the timing and the market is right for Keynote to place strategic emphasis on these markets. With Keynote’s recent acquisitions and partnerships in Europe, it was important to place an executive with a unique mix of talents, international experience and team building expertise such as those possessed by Mr. Sold, which will serve Keynote well as we further expand our presence in the EMEA markets just as those markets are ready to grow."
"The e-business market across the EMEA region has matured slower than in the U.S., but is now at the point of explosive growth," said Haran Sold. "I welcome the opportunity to expand on the success and reputation for accuracy and independence that Keynote enjoys in the States and to help build a market leading Keynote EMEA organization through aggressive growth and acquisitions."
During the course of his career, Sold held a variety of management positions at NEC and PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he managed the successful development, implementation and deployment of large international strategic business information programs. Sold served as director of product marketing at PeopleSoft prior to its acquisition by Oracle. He has over 15 years of international management experience in both high tech and consumer enterprise markets.
About Keynote
Founded in 1995, Keynote Systems (Nasdaq “KEYN”), The Internet Performance Authority®, is the worldwide leader in e-business performance management services. Over 2,100 corporate IT and marketing departments and 16,000 individual subscribers rely on Keynote’s portfolio of measurement and monitoring, service level and customer experience management services to improve e-business performance by reducing costs, improving customer satisfaction and increasing profitability.
Keynote is viewed as The Internet Performance Authority due to the company’s global infrastructure of over 1,600 measurement computers in more than 50 cities worldwide that capture and store on a daily basis over 60 million Internet performance measurements, frequent media citations quoting Keynote`s Web performance data and analysis, the company’s market-leading Web performance indices for vertical markets and leading customer research that provides critical business insight into online customer experiences, industry trends and competitive Web strategies.
Keynote Systems, Inc. is headquartered in San Mateo, California and can be reached at www.keynote.com or by phone in the U.S. at 650-403-2400.
Keynote, The Internet Performance Authority and Perspective are registered trademarks of Keynote Systems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. © 2005 Keynote Systems, Inc.
Editorial Contacts:
Della Lowe, Keynote
(650) 403-3233
dlowe@keynote.com
Dan Berkowitz, Keynote
(650) 403-3305
dberkowitz@keynote.com
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