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February 25, 2008, McLean, VA - Centrifuge Systems, a leading provider of next generation business intelligence software, announced today that former Salesforce.com executive Neil Herron has joined the team as Vice President of Sales where he will oversee all field operations for the company.
Mr. Herron has been a leader in information technology sales and sales management for more than 20 years. Most recently, Mr. Herron served as Vice President of Public Sector Sales for Salesforce.com. He is the former Director for Oracle's National Intelligence Business Unit, where he was responsible for all Oracle sales activity into the Intelligence Community. Prior to managing the National Intelligence organization at Oracle he managed the Federal CRM Sales organization and grew revenues over 800% within two years. Mr. Herron also worked at Netscape Communications where he was actively involved in Netscape's transition from browser to enterprise software sales.
"Neil has a proven and impressive track record. He was instrumental in growing business at Oracle, Netscape and, most recently, Salesforce.com from an early stage." said Guljit Khurana, CEO of Centrifuge Systems. "Neil comes to us at an ideal time when the demand for new approaches to business intelligence is growing rapidly."
"I am privileged to join the company at this exciting time. Centrifuge has a great team, great customers and the technology is extremely impressive." said Herron. "Organizations are eager to find innovative approaches to navigate and understand the massive amount of information at their disposal. Centrifuge's unique visualization technology has proven to be very effective. I look forward to helping the company respond to this rapidly growing market interest."
Centrifuge recently announced that it received its first round of institutional funding from premier venture capital firm Novak Biddle Venture Partners (NBVP).
About Centrifuge:
Centrifuge Systems is a leading provider of next generation business intelligence software that helps organizations discover insights, patterns and relationships hidden in their data. The unique Centrifuge approach allows users to ask open ended questions of their data by interacting with visual representations of the data directly.
Traditional business intelligence solutions require users to define what they want to see in advance and present the results in static dashboards. With Centrifuge, users determine what is of interest “on the fly”, then manipulate the displays directly in a highly interactive fashion. The experience is refreshingly easy-to-use and the resulting insights can be extraordinary.
Centrifuge is used in some of the most demanding applications in the world, including counter-terrorism and homeland defense, to help analysts move from data to discovery.
For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.centrifugesystems.com.