ISIS announces hiring of U.S. Chief Executive Officer
Vancouver, B.C. June 9,1999 – International Sales Information Systems Inc. (VSE-ISI) announces that it has commenced operations in the United States through the formation of a wholly-owned U.S. subsidiary. Mr. Robert Jurik, B.Sc., has been appointed as President and CEO of this U.S. subsidiary. Mr. Jurik's mandate is to rapidly build a North American organization headquartered in Long Island, New York to market the Company's Salespoint software.
Mr. Jurik has 28 years experience in the computer industry and 14 years dedicated solely to Customer Relationship Management (CRM), primarily in the area of Sales Force Automation (SFA). He has personally been responsible for automating over 20 Fortune 1000 companies. Mr. Jurik is highly experienced in selling into the consumer goods, insurance, banking, consumer retail, military, and service industries both directly and with strategic partners.
Throughout the past 18 months Mr. Jurik has been a Director of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), having been hired to help build their CRM consulting practice. He was also responsible for coordinating the strategic alliance program between PwC and Siebel Systems (Nasdaq: SEBL) sales and marketing field operations. Prior to PwC, he worked for Vantive Corporation (Nasdaq: VNTV) Mr. Jurik expanded their New York operations. Vantive is one of the largest CRM/SFA software vendors in the market today. Prior to Vantive he was Director and General Manager of North American operations for Information Dimensions Inc., at the time, a leading provider of document management solutions for the intranet. While there he, negotiated and concluded strategic alliances with IBM, Unysis, HP, Netscape, Digital, Sun Microsystems, and Cap Gemini.
Mr Jurik has been a frequent speaker at Comdex and PC Expo, amongst others. He has also been a keynote speaker to corporate executives of GE Capital, GTE and IBM on sales force automation's impact on customer service, and the bottom line.
Mr. Jurik stated, “ISIS has a tremendous opportunity to enter one of the fastest growing high technology markets in the world. Industry analysts have made it clear that the U.S. ‘front office' market for CRM software should become larger than that of the multi-billion dollar ‘back office' market presently dominated by three or four multinational software firms.” Forrester Research recently stated that today's businesses are increasing their investment in information technology ("IT"). In 1996 a total of $6.2 billion U.S. was spent on IT systems in general, of which $600 million U.S. was spent on CRM software. By 2000 Forrester predicts a total of $16 billion U.S. will be spent on IT systems , of which $3.2 billion U.S. will be spent on CRM software.
ISIS is engaged in the deployment of software solutions for mobile workers. It has a panEuropean agreement with Elizabeth Arden and has been mandated as part of the Best Practice Program for the confectionery stream of Cadbury Schwepps worldwide.
On behalf of the board of directors
“John Hardy”
Chairman and CEO
For more information visit our website at isissoft.com
Company Contact: Martyn Element & Associates – Phone 1-800-505-5655 or (604) 687-6820, Fax (604) 687-6328, E-mail: element@direct.ca
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