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Thursday, April 24, 2008 |
Mike Bradley is not wasting time building Apprion into a wireless networking force in the market. Mike Sullivan has been named vice president of global sales. As Apprion's senior sales executive, Sullivan will be responsible for developing channel partnerships and expanding opportunities across all manufacturing markets. Sullivan has over 28 years of industry expertise in developing and leading sales organizations that have successfully addressed the unique needs of the industrial marketplace. Sullivan was most recently the vice president of sales for MTL MOST/Wonderware West.
In addition to Sullivan, Apprion also announced the appointments of Rick Crider as director of sales channel development, and Tony Bustamante as director of system integrator market development.
Crider brings over 30 years of experience to Apprion. For more than half of that time, he held various executive positions at Wonderware, including vice president of strategic accounts and vice president of strategic alliances. Crider has also held sales and management positions at SAIC, Siemens and Modicon.
Bustamante has over 25 years of industry experience. Most recently, he was with Wonderware, where he developed and managed relationships with system integrators and other channel partners. Prior to Wonderware, Bustamante spent more than 12 years at Intellution, where he had responsibility for channel development and management.
12:22:22 PM 
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No posts yesterday. Drove up to Chicago to visit the office and have some meetings. We have a new Web managing editor. He's getting up to speed and getting some updates to our home page rolling. Look for a few tweaks to make things like news updates more appealing. We'll be rolling out some new blog ideas shortly, too. It's hard to stay cutting edge ;-)
Speaking of cutting edge, marketer and blogger (or is it the other way around?) Jim Cahill from Emerson Process Management is at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco. He's even participating on a panel. Last night he met Steve Gillmor and Dan Farber of the Gillmor Gang podcast. Aside from Jim and me, John and National Instruments is the only other reader of this blog who may know them. I read those guys years ago at InfoWorld. They help keep me up to date on the high tech industry. Way to go, Jim. (Then he even had time to post a new blog entry.)
8:26:41 AM
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Want evidence why I'd never want to run a public company? Rockwell Automation turned in solid sales and profit growth last quarter, yet it didn't meet Wall Street analysts expectations and they are howling for blood. One analyst speculates Yokogawa and Siemens would be good purchaser bets for the company. (Even though Yokogawa just made a small acquisition and touted it as a big deal.) I remain a skeptic about analysts--as a group they have incited a couple of "bubbles" in the past ten years or so. But even though they've never run a company, they are supposedly great numbers people. Every company I've worked for that was run by people who were strictly numbers people went straight into the ground. So, Walt and Jim--have a field day with this one. As for me, we'll just see how things play out.
8:01:08 AM
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