Aquire hires Vice President of Global Partners, adding a wealth of international knowledge to an already talented team
- Mr. Andrew Kirk Simmons is fluent in five languages and brings more than 18-years of international sales and marketing experience to the company -
IRVING, Texas - August 8, 2005 - Aquire™, formerly TimeVision, the premier provider of unified workforce intelligence solutions, today announced that Andrew Kirk Simmons, an 18-year veteran of international sales and marketing in computer software, hardware and enterprise networking industries has joined the company’s management team.
“Andrew is the perfect person to help us continue our growth domestically and internationally,” said Lois Melbourne, chief executive officer of Aquire. “He has the industry expertise and energy to be a true leader, and his extensive cross-cultural background is going to be extremely valuable as we expand our strategic partnerships throughout the world.”
Currently, Aquire has more than 60 business partners and 20 technology partners in more than 50 countries around the globe. Aquire’s Alliance Network Partner program continues to grow with Vineyard (Dubai), IBS (Russia), Tandem HCM (U.S.) and Orgraphics Ltd. (United Kingdom) recently joining the program. In addition, the company recently announced dozens of new customers worldwide, including Deutsche BP Aktiengesellschaft of Germany; Ergon Energy of Australia; Iberinco of Spain; Sigma-tau Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite SpA of Italy; and the Hershey Company, Kellogg Company, Paramount Pictures and T. Rowe Price Group in the United States.
Simmons has strong experience in team management, channel partner development and training. He is fluent in Arabic, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese and Spanish.
“The opportunity at Aquire has everything a seasoned business development executive looks for,” said Simmons. “A company world-renowned for customer service, proven enterprise solutions that channel partners embrace, and strong demand for the software they develop. I’m ready to put my experience and energy behind Aquire. This company is going places and I look forward to being an active part of its growth.”
Before joining Aquire, Simmons was Director, Business Partner Development, for Best Software’s CRM Solutions Division, where he built a global network of more than 300 trained business partners in more than 60 countries. He also established global relationships with multi-national consulting firms and developed partner relationships with global manufacturers of complementary products.
Prior to that, Simmons was International Sales & Marketing Team Leader for MountainGate, a Lockheed Martin Company. There he established and implemented a global Business Alliance Program to select, authorize and support high-caliber systems integrators and partners worldwide. He also established and conducted sales training, forecasting and lead management programs for Business Alliances. While with Business Alliances, Simmons also increased revenue in the Pacific Rim, Latin American and European/African/Middle Eastern regions from $100K to more than $6 Million. Revenue from these regions grew from less than 1% of Business Alliances’ total sales to more than 45%.
About Aquire
Aquire™, formerly TimeVision, is the premier provider of unified workforce intelligence solutions that enable executives to aggregate and analyze critical workforce and financial data within the context of an organizational structure. The company’s flagship products include OrgPublisher™ and OrgBuilder™. OrgPublisher is the world’s #1 automated organizational charting software and helps organizations manage the structure of their entire business. OrgBuilder automates critical workforce planning and budgeting processes by integrating financial data with a visual representation of enterprise-wide reporting structures. Aquire solutions integrate seamlessly with SAP®, Oracle®, Peoplesoft® and other applications. Join more than 2,000 organizations in 125 countries that have selected Aquire solutions to manage data for 6 million working professionals worldwide.
