CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
5 December 2008
Company News
Trubiquity Names Koons President, CEO
Trubiquity, a provider of simple, secure, exchange and business process automation solutions for companies across a variety of industries, has named Stephen Koons president and chief executive officer.
Koons previously served as senior vice president of Strategic Business Development for Trubiquity. He led the company's acquisitions of Datranet, Secorex, Trinary Systems and the assets of Mosaic Software AG and has developed and maintained relationships with Trubiquity's key partners. Prior to joining Trubiquity, Koons served as vice president of sales at BRT Inc., an enterprise software developer and systems integrator. He previously held global management positions at Electronic Data Systems (EDS) and AT&T.
Koons holds a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, and also is pursuing a master’s degree in business administration from the Executive Program at the Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State.
Based in Rochester Hills, with European headquarters in Germany and the U.K., Trubiquity is a leading provider of global data exchange and business process automation software for manufacturing, finance, consumer goods and retail organizations. The company provides a software-as-a-service-based business process network connecting enterprises across all global communication protocols and standards. Trubiquity’s solutions can be accessed all the time, everywhere around the globe.
Trubiquity’s customers are some of the world’s leading manufacturers and their suppliers as well as retailers and financial institutions including BMW, Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, METRO Group, Mitsubishi and Nissan, as well as BAE Systems, Behr, Federal Mogul, Hella, Johnson Controls, Lear, Metaldyne, TRW and Visteon. For additional information regarding Trubiquity, visit http://www.trubiquity.com.
Kinderhook Industries, a New York-based private equity fund with $470 million of committed capital, became Trubiquity’s major shareholder in 2007. For additional information, visit http://www.kinderhookindustries.com.
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