INDIANAPOLIS (PRWEB)
September 24, 2019

Scale Computing, a market leader in edge computing, virtualization and hyperconverged solutions, today announced an update to its senior executive team with the promotion of Scott Loughmiller to the role of Chief Product Officer (CPO). Fueled by the growth of both the edge computing market and the desire to bring automation to IT systems, Scale Computing’s appointment of Loughmiller as CPO is part of the company’s plans to drive substantial growth heading into 2020 and beyond.

As a co-founder of Scale Computing, Loughmiller has served as the company’s vice president of engineering since 2007. The promotion to CPO enables Scale Computing to further benefit from Loughmiller’s considerable industry-defining experience, as he leads the product team during a time of high-growth and strong business momentum.

A serial entrepreneur, with a distinguished 20-year track record in the technology industry, Loughmiller previously served as partner with Volt Capital, Director of Product Management at Tumbleweed Communications, and CTO and co-founder at Corvigo Inc. (acquired by Tumbleweed in 2004).

“Scott has been a key leader at Scale and an integral part of our technology development, from earliest inception to today’s edge computing offerings,” explained Jeff Ready, CEO and co-founder, Scale Computing. “As a fellow co-founder, I am delighted to welcome Scott to my senior staff and continue driving Scale to new heights.”

“Being part of building Scale Computing as a co-founder and VP of Engineering has been a deeply rewarding experience. Our product team is one of the best in the industry, and I’m excited to lead it to the next phase of growth and success,” commented Scott Loughmiller, CPO, Scale Computing. “Scale Computing continues delivering the market-leading technology that led CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, to recognize Scale as a winner in the Converged/Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Desktop/Server Virtualization categories and all subcategories of the CRN® 2019 Annual Report Card (ARC) awards program. I am passionate about building market-changing products and collaborating with the teams that make those products a reality. In the new role of CPO, I look forward to delivering Scale Computing’s next technology breakthroughs to our valued customers and partners.”

This is the third appointment to Scale Computing’s leadership team, following the appointment of Dan Pierce and Marlena Fernandez to its executive team earlier this year, advancing the company’s mission to lead the way as the top edge and HCI solution for global organizations. As further validation of the company’s momentum in 2019, Scale Computing was recently recognized by CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, as a winner in the Converged/Hyperconverged Infrastructure and Desktop/Server Virtualization categories and all subcategories of the CRN® 2019 Annual Report Card (ARC) awards program.

About Scale Computing

Scale Computing is a leader in edge computing, virtualization, and hyperconverged solutions. Scale Computing HC3 software eliminates the need for traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage, replacing these with a fully integrated, highly available system for running applications. Using patented HyperCore™ technology, the HC3 self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects infrastructure problems in real-time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime. When ease-of-use, high availability, and TCO matter, Scale Computing HC3 is the ideal infrastructure platform. Read what our customers have to say on Gartner Peer Insights, Spiceworks, TechValidate and TrustRadius.

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[The Business Forum] is always very well-attended largely because the attendees come away with insightful, practical information they can implement within their own organizations right away.

DENVER (PRWEB)
September 24, 2019

To bring forth actionable commercial excellence strategies for pricing and sales teams, Vendavo, the market leader in commercial excellence solutions, today announced it will host a Business Forum and User Group Meeting in Dallas on October 8-9, 2019. Registration is now open; use promo code VENPRDL50.

“We hold a Business Forum and User Group Meeting a few times each year in different cities across the U.S. and EMEA,” said C. Edward Brice, CMO, Vendavo. “They are always very well-attended largely because the attendees come away with insightful, practical information they can implement within their own organizations right away. Vendavo also gains invaluable feedback from the people who are in the trenches of both pricing and sales so it’s truly a win-win.”

The popular event includes an opening networking reception on the evening of October 7 followed by a full slate of collaboration for enterprise pricing and sales professionals on October 8. Day one will include expert discussion led by industry thought leaders including: Pricing Excellence with Colin Carroll of PwC; Sales Excellence with Brian Doyle, Holden Advisors; and The Commercial Excellence Maturity Model from Vendavo.

Vendavo customers will also provide deep dives into real-world success stories on how commercial excellence tactics have been employed for improved profitability and customer experience by connecting pricing effectiveness with sales efficiency. Interactive sessions will be led by Andrew Gilchrist, Digital Program Lead at GAF and Miroslav Kello, Pricing Architecture Lead, Dell Technologies.

Day two of the event has been designed for Vendavo customers only and will include in-depth success stories for proven tips and tricks on using the Vendavo Commercial Excellence Platform as well as individual solutions including Vendavo Intelligent CPQ and Vendavo Deal Price Guidance. Lubrizol’s successful transition to the cloud will be reviewed by Steve Paller, Pricing Manager, and Lori Radonich, SAP Business Process Specialist, as they discuss their upgrade to S/4 HANA and offer their key learnings.

The Vendavo product team will also be on-hand to share feature updates and solicit feedback on the company roadmap. The day will close with a series of hands-on workshops focused on understanding how to better operationalize pricing, how to ensure pricing is in the hands of the sales team when they need it, as well as collaborative workshops focused on what customers would like to work on next with Vendavo.

Ample time has been built into the schedule for networking, including the opening night reception and another social event on the evening of Oct 8.

To see a list of past and present Business Forum attendees and to register for the event that will be held at the Magnolia Dallas Downtown hotel, please visit the event webpage with promo code VENPRDAL50.

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About Vendavo

Vendavo powers the shift to digital business for the world’s most demanding B2B companies, unlocking value, growing margin and accelerating revenue. With the Vendavo Commercial Excellence platform, companies develop dynamic customer insights and optimal pricing strategies that maximize margin, boost sales effectiveness and improve customer experience. With an annual margin improvement totaling more than $2.5 billion across companies in chemicals, distribution, high-tech and manufacturing, Vendavo delivers cutting-edge analytics and deep industry expertise that help companies stay one step ahead. Vendavo is headquartered in Denver, CO and has offices around the globe. Learn more at Vendavo.com.

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“It is an honor to join the executive team of one of the nation’s largest and most well-respected staffing agencies,” said CoWorx Staffing Services CEO Tim Hartnett.

WATCHUNG, N.J. (PRWEB)
September 24, 2019

CoWorx Staffing Services announces Tim Hartnett as its President and Chief Executive Officer.

Hartnett spent the majority of his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), a multinational professional services network, where he served as Global and U.S. Private Equity Leader; and throughout his career, he has focused on acquisitions and growing companies through operational improvements.

“It is an honor to join the executive team of one of the nation’s largest and most well-respected staffing agencies,” said CoWorx Staffing Services CEO Tim Hartnett. “We are committed to investing in the company’s growth, our exceptional team and continue providing best-in-class service to our clients.”

About CoWorx

For 45 years, CoWorx Staffing Services has been helping job seekers grow their careers and employers build their workforce. CoWorx places candidates nationwide in administrative, light industrial, call center, and distribution and 3rd-party logistics positions, with an additional luxury beauty and fragrance division. Dedicated to workplace safety and with an ongoing commitment to diversity and partnership, CoWorx consistently earns Safety Standard of Excellence marks from the ASA and ranks among the largest staffing firms in the U.S., boasting more than 80 offices and 50,000 field employees nationally. The CoWorx philosophy, “Together we’re better,” embodies the company’s commitment to working collaboratively with clients, internal staff and field employees. To learn more about CoWorx, visit http://www.coworxstaffing.com.

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OCT Clinical Trials announced that it has appointed Maxime Stevens as Chief Strategy and Development Officer.

“I look forward to supporting both strategic onward growth and success of the company, and inspiring our people to learn even more, and become even more.” — Maxime Stevens, Chief Strategy and Development Officer, OCT Clinical Trials

SAINT PETERSBURG, Russia (PRWEB)
September 23, 2019

OCT Clinical Trials, a leading CRO with operations in Eastern Europe, today announced that it has appointed Maxime Stevens as Chief Strategy and Development Officer. In her role, she is responsible for establishing business development vision, creating roadmaps for global expansion, driving operational excellence and leading short- and long-term global strategy growth operations for the entire company.

“It is both an honor and pleasure for me to be joining OCT Clinical Trials as their Chief Strategy and Development Officer,” Stevens said. “The people are extremely skilled, experienced and passionate about not only our work, but also each other, our sponsors and our partners.”

Maxime brings more than 25 years’ experience in executive leadership, developing Global BD and Operations groups for both American and European companies, including United States Surgical Corporation, Cyberonics Inc., Pierrel Research International AG and Optimapharm. As CEO for Pierrel Research International AG, Maxime was instrumental in wholly restructuring a troubled global company with 28 offices, increasing investments, backlog and revenue pipelines by more than 200%, and securing SIX Swiss Exchange listing of the merged companies in 2014.

Maxime possesses a strong track record of driving long-term growth, operational excellence and expansion of new geographic and channel opportunities for prominent players in the industry. Her extensive international experience, most notably in MENA, Africa, Europe and the United States, is a valuable asset for OCT Clinical Trials as the company moves toward global expansion.

Maxime is also known for her seven-year period running operations for South Africa’s branch of the World Health Organization (WHO). Maxime was recognized by WHO for Outstanding Contribution to Ethics in Business and Humanity, and was an Honored Member of International WHO’s WHO of Professionals in both 2013 and 2014. She also sat for four years on the FDA advisory and ethical boards for Innovative Medical Device approvals.

“I look forward to supporting both strategic onward growth and success of the company, and inspiring our people to learn even more, and become even more. Our best work happens when we embrace making a difference — and then we achieve it,” Maxime added.

Having already gained a sizable market share of trials in Eastern Europe and CIS region, OCT is now taking the significant step of expanding its presence into EMEA, Israel, South Africa, Europe and the United States. With this strategic reinforcement, they will continue to provide the tailor-made solutions they are already known for, now to a broader pool of pharma, biotech and medical device companies.

“We’re a full-service CRO with over 300 projects in our portfolio, solid technological infrastructure and well-run processes with all the main sites within the Eastern European and CIS region,” said Dmitry Sharov, OCT Group President. “We realize that our services and approach are in high demand, not only for sponsors within the region, but for companies worldwide. Maxime Stevens has the proven experience and expertise to strategically develop and drive our expertise into the global arena, and amplify the image of a CRO with an impeccable reputation.”

About OCT Clinical Trials

OCT Clinical Trials is the leading CRO in Russia, with operations in Central and Eastern Europe and the CIS region. With a team of over 200 professionals, the company provides a full range of high-quality clinical research services for phase I-IV and BE studies. With strong local expertise and focus on quality, OCT ensures seamless clinical trial conduct and drug registration on time and within budget. OCT’s experienced team delivers both standalone services such as medical writing, consultancy, project management/monitoring, data management/biostatistics and turnkey service for clinical development. Since 2005, OCT Clinical Trials has worked on over 300 full-service and functional service projects in more than 20 therapeutic areas. Learn more at http://www.OCT-ClinicalTrials.com.

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Leaders On Purpose 2019 Study

NEW YORK (PRWEB)
September 23, 2019

The role of traditional capitalism is being questioned as never before. An economic system borne of the industrial age is currently threatening the extinction of life on earth, creating massive wealth disparities, and contributing to social injustice on a global scale.

The 2019 Leaders on Purpose CEO study provides fresh insight into the changing role of business in society and suggests some productive best practices for transforming capitalism. The report features interviews with CEOs from BMW, PayPal, Mastercard, Siemens, Kohler and many other businesses that are no longer treating social responsibility as an add-on. Instead, they are building purpose into the core of their business strategies. Building off our 2018 study, this new report delves deep into many issues including systems thinking, new models for cross-sectoral partnering, harnessing the unexpected and how new organizational models are unleashing employee engagement.

“All 30 CEOs talk about the tremendous leverage effect they’ve experienced by aligning their business growth objectives with the goal of promoting global wellbeing,” says Christa Gyori, CEO of Leaders on Purpose. “By recognizing the world as a holistic system of interrelated issues, these companies have been able to evolve faster, innovate more effectively and create and sustain long-term relationships with their employees, customers and partners.”

The five findings from the 2019 study are:

1. Companies with an established and embedded corporate purpose have a more comprehensive perspective of today’s challenges, allowing for clearer decisions and stronger future fitness. Today’s businesses operate amid expected and unexpected evolutionary pressures: collapsing industries, distrust of institutions, automation, artificial intelligence, rising inequality, demographic shifts, climate change, resource depletion and more. Not surprisingly, many leaders and organizations find it difficult to respond to this unprecedented rate of change. However, those that embrace the issues they can positively impact, find themselves better equipped to predict challenges and to pivot their businesses to capture opportunities, foster innovation and bolster their resilience.

For example, Turkish telecom giant, TurkCell saw the headwinds of the regional refugee crisis: overloaded cellular systems caused by displaced people desperate to connect with friends and family. The company quickly adjusted its network, provided free phones to people in need and reduced tensions in camps across the country. Their fast, forward-thinking action resulted in an expansion of their customer base, increased loyalty and an uptake in sales.

2. CEOs with a purpose agenda are entrepreneurial, push boundaries of short termism and aspire to transform industries, not just markets. Corporate leaders that embrace a globally anchored purpose understand the significance of an institutionalized long-term growth perspective. In fact, they come to view this as a necessity for both organizational competitiveness and transformation in the digital era. These CEOs lead by example, maintaining an operationally anchored leadership mindset and a consistent purpose-driven approach. What’s more, they understand that employee empowerment is more than a trigger for employee satisfaction; it is an effective way to unleash capabilities for market-leading and pioneering innovation.

Interface CEO, Jay Gould, demonstrates these traits as he continues to implement the same approach to business pioneered when the company first embraced purpose almost 25 years ago. A recent example of this is Interface’s global distribution of innovative carbon-negative products that actually capture more carbon than they use.

3. Corporate purpose agendas require new kinds of cross-sectoral partnerships to support bold goals, tackle big challenges and scale innovation faster. Alignment around a comprehensive approach to purpose allows companies to transform stakeholders into powerful long-term partners while fostering pre-competitive, non-traditional partnerships. While traditional businesses struggle with incremental improvements rather than incubating the next big thing, purpose-led companies set more ambitious long-term goals. These big picture initiatives present opportunities for new types of partnership, cross-sectoral collaboration and innovation. The CEOs in our 2019 study believe getting to scale with speed is an imperfect process. Instead, they foster a ‘test and learn’ environment and seek non-traditional partners and open-source capabilities to generate better ideas.

Paypal CEO, Dan Schulman, believes constant learning is critical, and that failure can lead to discovery. The company’s acceptance that things won’t always go to plan is critical to its ability to innovate and grow as a business, while its purpose-led agenda fosters a problem-solving approach.

4. Purpose-led CEOs embrace the essential role of the unexpected. The CEOs in our 2019 study recognize that the unexpected is often an opportunity rather than a threat. Hubert Joly, Chairman of Best Buy, remarks, “Dealing with the unexpected and seizing those as moments of truth is a very powerful idea. It is in those [unexpected] moments that you can really make a difference.” In Best Buy’s case, one such unexpected event was Hurricane Maria. The company responded to this crisis by organizing private planes, flying in food and water, and offering to evacuate employees. This approach spoke volumes about their values and the resulting increase in customer and employee loyalty has, in turn, increased Best Buy’s revenues.

5. Organizational agility empowers employees, enables a greater flow of ideas and supports innovation. Most of the CEOs featured in our 2019 study consider organizational agility the most important characteristic of a successful, purpose-driven organization. As such, many of them are taking steps to drastically reduce corporate hierarchy in an effort to boost agility. Most have already introduced a flatter structure to become more adaptive. All 30 CEOs were intensely focused on the motivation, engagement and collective intelligence of their employees.

David Kohler, CEO of Kohler, explains, “We look at measurements overall as a company, and regionally, and by business, but the greatest success is when the associates in an organization are driving the agenda on a self-directed passionate basis… We’ve learned a lot about organizational change, and you can’t mandate this. The power is in the passion of the enterprise. People genuinely want to do good things.” Organizational structures that reduce resistance to change empower and incent employees to fully engage with the driving purpose of their business.

Participating CEOs include:

CEO    Carlos Brito    AB InBev

CEO    Brian Duperreault    AIG

CEO    Hubert Joly    Best Buy

CEO    Herald Kruger    BMW

CEO    Tom Linebarger    Cummins

CEO    Emmanuel Faber    Danone

CEO    Remi Eriksen    DNV-GL

CEO    Feike Sijbesma    DSM

CEO    Zhang Ruimin    Haier

CEO    Peter Agnefjall    IKEA

CEO    Pablo Isla    Inditex

CEO    Jay Gould    Interface

CEO    Barry Rafferty    Ketchum

CEO    David Kohler    Kohler

BoD    Laura Kohler    Kohler

CEO    Jean Paul Agon    Loreal

CEO    Anand Mahindra    Mahindra & Mahindra

CEO    Grant Reid    Mars

CEO    Ajay Banga    Mastercard

CEO    Lars Sorensen    Novo Nordisk

CEO    David Taylor    Proctor & Gamble

CEO    Dan Schulman    PayPal

CEO    John Fallon    Pearson

CEO    Frans van Houten    Philips

CEO    Johan Torgeby    SEB

CEO    Joe Kaeser    Siemens

CEO    Denis Machuel    Sodexo Global

CEO    Lorna Donatone    Sodexo North America

CEO    Kaan Terzioğlu    Turkcell

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Find the full study here: Leaders on Purpose 2019 CEO Study.

For more information contact Monica Marshall at monica.marshall@ruderfinn.com.

Honored to speak about how Family Offices are deciding the best ways to diligence one of the most talked-about topics in Family Offices today — opportunity zones.

CHICAGO (PRWEB)
September 23, 2019

Financial Poise™ is pleased to congratulate Ron Diamond, Chair of The Family Office Advisor, a Financial Poise™ editorial board, and CEO of Diamond Wealth Strategies, on his speaking engagement at Opal Group’s flagship event, the Family Office & Private Wealth Management Forum in Newport, RI. At the Forum, Mr. Diamond presented, “Making Money with Opportunity Zones & Tax the Benefits.”

Opal Group’s Family Office & Private Wealth Management Forum, a three-day event, took place from July 22-24, 2019 in the Hamptons and is its largest family office event in the world. With over 1000 delegates, this invite-only forum brought together prominent Family Offices, private investors, and investment managers for networking and thought leadership.

About Financial Poise™

Financial Poise™ has one mission: to provide reliable plain English business, financial and legal education to individual investors and private business owners. Financial Poise™ content is created by seasoned, respected experts who are invited to join our Faculty only after being recommended by current Faculty Members. Our editorial staff then works to make sure that all content is easily digestible. Financial Poise™ is a meritocracy; nobody can “buy” her way onto the Financial Poise Faculty.™ Start learning today at https://www.financialpoise.com/

About Diamond Wealth

Diamond Wealth is a boutique financial services firm that offers a comprehensive suite of advisory services catering to the unique needs of family offices, ultra-high net worth individuals, and business owners.

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Workforce Dimensions represents the next generation of workforce management. Collaborating with leading services providers like Adessa Group will accelerate our ability to reshape the future of work for millions of employees across Europe and around the world.

BRUSSELS, belgium (PRWEB)
September 23, 2019

Adessa Group, a pan-European provider of business process and strategic solutions for SAP and SAP SuccessFactors, announced today a new strategic collaboration with Kronos Incorporated to offer Workforce Dimensions, the next-generation workforce management solution from Kronos, to customers across Europe. Adessa was chosen as a partner by Kronos due to its combination of deep HCM, Time Management and Workforce Management (WFM) technology expertise, its strong European presence, and its extensive delivery capacity across the region.

Workforce Dimensions from Kronos is the first cloud-native, mobile-first, artificial intelligence-powered workforce management solution. SAP AG announced earlier this year that it had selected Workforce Dimensions as its workforce management solution for customers with complex scheduling, time and attendance, absence management, labor activities, and workforce analytics requirements. Known as SAP Time Management by Kronos, the solution provides SAP customers with best-in-class workforce management capabilities that integrate with and extend the SAP SuccessFactors suite.

“As a strong SAP partner whose resources and offices are all located within Europe, we have a deep understanding of the complexity of local country processes such as time and attendance and payroll across the region,” said Luc Bossaert, Adessa Group’s Partner.

“This partnership with Kronos allows us to more effectively help our customers migrate HR technology to the cloud by offering the best workforce management suite available today,” added Bossaert.

“Workforce Dimensions represents the next generation of workforce management,” said Nicole Bello, vice president, SMB and Channel Sales, Kronos. “Collaborating with leading services providers like Adessa Group will accelerate our ability to reshape the future of work for millions of employees across Europe and around the world.”

About Adessa Group

Adessa Group is an SAP ERP HCM, SAP SuccessFactors, and Qualtrics partner and services provider with offices in Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, France and Spain. Since its inception in 2005, the Adessa Group has developed a strong reputation across Europe for continuous innovation and expert delivery of SAP-based HR services and solutions. Learn more at http://www.adessagroup.com.

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