Alfresco Appoints Denis Dorval as Vice President Southern EMEA
Alfresco Continues International Momentum with New Southern European Headquarters in Paris
(EMAILWIRE.COM, October 06, 2006 ) Paris —— Alfresco Software Inc., the first and leading provider of an open source enterprise content management solution, today announced that Denis Dorval has joined the growing executive team as Vice President, Southern EMEA. He has significant experience in both content management and growing a partner led European business.
“My experience in content management drove me to the conclusion that open source is the future of enterprise content management,” said Denis Dorval, Vice President Southern EMEA, Alfresco. “We are building from a position of strength with a strong brand and significant local customers and partnerships”.
“We are now in a position as the only open source alternative in a $3.9bn ECM market that is moving away from high-priced legacy vendors,” said John Powell, CEO, Alfresco Software Inc. “We see the content management market at a stage of un-paralleled potential, with a new set of standards in place for the first time and Governments making open source the model of choice. We see the French Government driving thought leadership on open source in Europe.”
Prior to Alfresco, Denis was Director for Partnerships & Alliance at FileNet, where he played a key role in defining & implementing a new go-to-market strategy with partners as part of the new FileNet P8 launch, as well as managing indirect sales and relationships with key European global system integrators. Prior to FileNet, Denis was founder and CEO of Webedisoft, a French- BPM software company that he created in 1999, which was subsequently acquired by another BPM software company in 2002. Denis has also been a lead sales & consultant member of the Asia-Pacific team at Asycuda.
About Alfresco Software, Inc.
Alfresco Software Inc. is the leading open source alternative for enterprise content management. It is the first company to bring the power of open source to the enterprise content management market, enabling unprecedented scale and a much lower total cost of ownership than proprietary systems. Founded by a team of content management veterans that includes the co-founder of Documentum, John Newton and former COO of Business Objects, John Powell. Alfresco is based in London. For more information, visit www.alfresco.com
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