Aquire Continues To Expand Sales Team with Addition of Tom Ericson
- New Position Responsible for Executive Product Sales and Installations -
IRVING, Texas - February 22, 2005 - Aquire, Inc., an international provider of fully web-based organizational charting software solutions, today announced the addition of Tom Ericson to the sales team as eastern region sales manager. Tom has more than 18 years of experience in application software sales and customer management.
Tom has held a variety of sales and management positions in the technology industry. Most recently, he held the position of senior account executive with ESI Networks, a regionally focused infrastructure organization. While in this position, he grew the organization’s small and medium business segment. Tom helped start the Northeast operation of a global Microsoft Business Partner at mcaConnect , LLC and worked as a strategic account manager for MAPICS, Inc. a worldwide, leading ERP company. His career began at IBM where he managed a new business, cross- industry territory working closely with application software providers.
Tom is a Certified Linux Sales consultant with Novell and a Certified Account Executive with Microsoft. He has received numerous sales awards, including the Million Dollar Club for six consecutive years with MAPICS. Tom holds a bachelor of science degree in marketing from the State University of New York at Oswego.
“I am truly excited about being a part of the Aquire team,” said Ericson. “This opportunity allows me to use and leverage my background and experiences in working with new business sales, installed customer management and partner development in one exciting role”.
About Aquire, Inc.
Founded in 1994 by Lois and Ross Melbourne, Aquire, Inc. creates enterprise software solutions that allow organizations to manage all aspects of their human resource data through easily understood, easy-to-use, web-based organizational charts. Aquire helps organizations address real business issues. The company’s solutions are used by more than 1,700 organizations in 53 countries. Customers include American Airlines, Braun Gillette, Colgate-Palmolive, Reliant Energy and Verizon, among others. With more than three million individuals charted worldwide, OrgPublisher for Intranets, the company's flagship product, continues to be the interactive org charting software of choice around the world. Aquire’s suite of products provide the most comprehensive tools for creating, maintaining, distributing, planning and analyzing organizational information across the enterprise.
