CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
13 March 2008
Company News
First Trace Names Albert Whipple VP of Sales
First Trace, Inc has announced that Albert Whipple has joined the company as the new Vice President of Sales. Whipple will lead First Trace in bringing the advanced Kinnosa suite of products and solutions to the engineering and enterprise marketplace. "Albert brings an entrepreneurial passion and decades of sales and marketing experience in high technology industries to our growing team," said Terry Simpson, President and CEO of First Trace. "We are extremely excited about bringing a dynamo of this caliber aboard to command our sales efforts."
Albert Whipple has succeeded as a VP of Sales and Marketing and Director of Sales for a number of software, high technology, and project management firms including Informatics, Tektronix and Electronics for Imaging.
At First Trace, Albert will focus on driving Kinnosa solutions into the engineering and enterprise marketplace and establishing Kinnosa as the de facto standard for document management solutions. The Kinnosa Enterprise System is an open, distributed, and affordable document management system that integrates with CAD products such as SolidWorks, Microstation, AutoCAD, as well as desktop tools MS Office and OpenOffice. Whipple has a responsibility for sales teams across North American and Europe handling both direct and indirect sales.
"Albert´s experience in directing sales teams, delivering multi-million dollar contracts, and developing market opportunities will cement First Trace as the market leader in software solutions for highly complex document management and process management requirements," said Terry Simpson. "We are looking for Albert to use his expertise to take control of our national and international customers and prospects to build on the success we have already achieved in delivering evolved solutions."
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