BEDFORD, Mass., Jan. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Project Software & Development, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSDI) today announced that Norman E. Drapeau, Jr., the Company's executive vice president and newly named chief operating officer, has been elected to the board of directors. He replaces Michael Marvin, chairman, MapInfo Corp., who resigned from PSDI's board, and was recently appointed CEO of Interactive Learning International Corp.
"We are grateful for Mike Marvin's commitment to PSDI and the contributions he has made to our Company. We welcome Chip Drapeau to our board and look forward to his counsel and experience," said David Sample, president and chief executive officer of PSDI.
Mr. Drapeau, executive vice president and COO of PSDI is responsible for all of PSDI's sales, marketing, professional services, quality assurance and support. He joined PSDI in 1982 as an applications analyst. Since that time, he has held various positions within the Company, including from 1984 to 1987, that of manager of customer support, and from 1989 through 1991, that of director, product marketing. In 1991, Mr. Drapeau served as vice president, corporate marketing. From 1992 to 1996, he served as vice president, americas, where he was responsible for sales and operations of North America, Central and South America, which represents about 55% of PSDI's worldwide business. From 1996 to present, Mr. Drapeau served as executive vice president, worldwide sales and marketing. Mr. Drapeau holds a B.S. in Economics from Tufts University.
PSDI develops, markets and supports applications software used by businesses, government agencies, and other organizations to assist them in maintaining high-value capital assets such as plants, facilities and production equipment. The Company's products are designed to enable customers to reduce downtime, control maintenance expenses, cut spare parts inventories and costs, improve purchasing efficiency, and more effectively deploy productive assets, personnel and other resources.
Based in Bedford, Mass., PSDI markets its products through a direct sales force with sales offices throughout the United States, Canada, Argentina, Australia, UK, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Thailand, Sweden and the Netherlands, combined with a network of international sales agents.
NOTE: All PSDI news releases are available via the PSDI Home Page at psdi.com. PSDI's new mailing address is 100 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA 01730, and main telephone number is 781-280-2000.
SOURCE Project Software & Development, Inc.
CO: Project Software & Development, Inc.
ST: Massachusetts
IN: CPR
SU: PER
01/09/98 17:39 EST prnewswire.com
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