(COMTEX) B: Xenos Group Expands Presence Across the United States; International
e-document Presentment Leader Opens Four New U.S. Offices and Grows Its Expert Team TORONTO and DALLAS, Jan 20, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Xenos Group (TSE: XNS), a leader in software for online document, statement and bill presentment, today announced the opening of four new offices in the United States. Xenos now has locations operating in New York City and San Diego, as well as in the Chicago and Denver metropolitan areas. Xenos also announced today the following advancements on its sales team: - Dan Wiseman, Western regional sales manager, Denver metropolitan area - Mark Suda, account manager, Chicago metropolitan area - John Stimson, account manager, New York City - Cliff Park, account manager, San Diego - Rusty Duke, account manager, Dallas "The opening of these offices in major metropolitan hubs across the United States reinforces our position as the leading provider of electronic document, statement and bill presentment solutions in North America," says Martin Heenan, President of Xenos. "With this expansion, Xenos is well-positioned to handle the increasing sales volumes as the EBPP market continues to mature. Additionally, the superior quality of our growing sales team demonstrates our ongoing commitment to building a world class organization." Dan Wiseman, based in the Denver metropolitan area, has been promoted to Western regional sales manager. In his new capacity, he will be responsible for all Xenos sales West of Ohio, inclusive. Additionally, Duke, Park and Suda all will report directly to Wiseman, who will continue to develop strategic company relationships. This includes Xenos' current relationship with Just In Time, which combines each company's award-winning technologies - Documorph(TM) and BillCast(TM) -- to provide an industry leading EBPP solution. Prior to joining Xenos in February 1999, Wiseman served as a senior account executive and country manager (in Canada) for Viasoft, Inc. He brings nearly 20 years of computer software sales and services experience to Xenos. Mark Suda, account manager, runs Xenos' new office in the Chicago metropolitan area. Suda has more than five years of experience in mainframe and client/sever software sales. Before becoming a member of the Xenos management team, Suda was senior account manager at Mobius Management Systems, where his duties included new product sales for mainframe and client/server and mainframe-based document management software to Fortune 5000 companies. Suda also has held sales positions at Continental Resources, Inc., Nightingale Conant and American Transportation Logistics Services (ATLS). John Stimson joins Xenos as an account manager operating the Company's New York City office. Stimson brings with him three years of experience in business development from Xerox, where he was a top national performer. There, John's responsibilities included managing sales production of Xerox - and third-party enterprise-wide document management solution software, hardware and services; managing product-specific sales performance; as well as facilitating new business development with new clients. Cliff Park serves as an account manager at Xenos' new San Diego office. In his new position, he is responsible for sales in the entire West Coast region. Cliff brings to Xenos more than six years of experience in sales and business development. He joins Xenos from Pitney Bowes, where he had been successful in selling complex software products to Fortune 100 companies in several vertical markets. Previously, he worked at IKON Office Solutions, where he facilitated imaging software, facilities management and photocopying sales to the legal vertical. In addition, Park served as a sales representative at Xerox early in his career. Rusty Duke has been appointed to Xenos Group's Dallas office as account manager, where he manages Xenos' Southwest region of the United Sates. Duke brings over 15 years of experience in the software, computer and communications industries. Prior to joining Xenos, he worked at Platinum Technology Inc., where played a key role in the account sales of enterprise infrastructure software, consulting and education solutions to several large national accounts. Duke also worked at Axxys Technologies and TCI Cablevision, both of Dallas. Xenos continues to define the electronic document presentment market space, a subset of which Killen & Associates, a leading market research and consulting firm, recently has examined. In fact, a study Killen recently conducted for Xenos predicted a $32 billion North American electronic statement and electronic bill presentment and payment (EBPP) market by 2005. About Xenos Group Based in Dallas and Toronto, with offices across North America and in Europe, Xenos Group (TSE: XNS, www.xenos.com) is a leader in software for online documents, statements and bills. Using the world's most advanced transformation technology, the company gives customers the ability to convert high-volume printed paper documents to any electronic format on any contemporary production platform. Customers such as Bear Stearns, Bank of New York, KeyBank, Merrill Lynch, Manulife Financial, Bell Canada and the Canada Post/Cebra's Electronic Post Office - EPOST, use Xenos Group software to transform and distributes billions of document pages every year. Xenos Group's Documorph(TM) software lets companies rapidly implement e-documents, e-statements and e-bills, enabling the benefits of cost savings, cross-selling opportunities and closer customer relationships. Copyright (C) 2000 Business Wire. All rights reserved. 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