CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
14 May 2012
Company News
Infor Hires Ali Shadman as Senior Vice President
Infor today announced that it has hired industry veteran Ali Shadman as Senior Vice President to lead a new organization dedicated to helping customers rapidly upgrade and embrace the latest Infor technologies, including the Infor10 Business Cloud. Reporting directly to CEO Charles Phillips, Ali will be responsible for building efficient tools and programs which accelerate customer upgrades to current releases of Infor applications.
"Infor has introduced a wealth of new technologies and now we are proactively helping customers take advantage of these innovations by upgrading to current releases more easily," said Charles Phillips, CEO of Infor. "Ali's new organization will assess customizations with the goal of retiring or productizing them, facilitate upgrades directly to the cloud, and exploit virtualization to allow hybrid cloud-on premise deployments."
Prior to joining Infor, Ali served as Vice President and Chief Technologist for Hewlett Packard's (HP) Technology Consulting division. Prior to HP, Ali served in various consulting, strategic, and leadership positions at companies including Oracle, Unisys, and Microsoft, as well as private equity-funded startups. He is a graduate of the University of Essex, England, and London Metropolitan University.
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