CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
2 December 2008
Company News
Alison Smith Joins AspenTech as Vice President of Marketing Strategy & Research
Aspen Technology, Inc. announced that Alison Smith has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing Strategy & Research. Smith joins AspenTech from AMR Research, where she was Research Director for the Manufacturing Operations market service.
Smith chose to come to AspenTech to help bring to market solutions that enable best practices in process optimization. She will lead the company's marketing strategy and research, and her team will focus on analyzing industry, technology, and business process trends that shape AspenTech's go-to-market, corporate, and product initiatives.
Smith’s extensive industry experience in identifying best-in-class Manufacturing practices will further drive the operational excellence initiatives at the core of AspenTech’s product strategy.
Previously, Smith was a founding officer and Marketing Vice President of Framework Technologies Corporation where she was responsible for market development, strategic positioning, product commercialization, and the initial launch of Framework’s collaborative manufacturing design application.
Over her 20+ year career, Smith has developed, deployed, supported, marketed, and sold manufacturing operations software applications to Fortune 500 manufacturers in industrial manufacturing, consumer products, and food environments.
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