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Karen Padir will serve as senior vice president for Application
Development
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Kimberly King will serve as vice president, Global Partners and
Channels
BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Progress
Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS), a global software company that
simplifies and enables the development and deployment of business
applications, today announced key senior appointments to bolster the
company's Application Development business and partner community. Having
worked with the world's leading software companies, Karen Tegan Padir
joins Progress as senior vice president and business line lead,
Application Development. At the same time, Kimberly King, a specialist
in channels and alliances growth, comes to Progress as vice president,
Global Partners and Channels.
Karen Tegan Padir, Senior Vice President for Application Development, Progress Software (Photo: Business Wire)
As an executive committee member reporting to the CEO, Karen Tegan Padir
will chart a course for the growth of the application development
business. In her role as business lead, Padir will drive Progress® OpenEdge®
application development product strategy, product management, product
marketing, and all related functions that support the business.
Padir joins Progress from EnterpriseDB, where she most recently served
as executive vice president, Products & Engineering, and was responsible
for all product functions achieving significant success by tripling the
product portfolio that yielded 146 percent growth in new customers and
100 percent revenue growth. Prior to EnterpriseDB, she was at Sun
Microsystems, where she was one of the founding members of the J2EE
team, and grew the entire middleware business, comprising MySQL,
Glassfish Application Server, Identity, Access and Roles Management,
Directory Server and the SOA Portfolio, to deliver 50 percent
incremental license revenue growth. Under her leadership, Glassfish
became the industry's most used Java EE compatible application server
with over 50 million downloads to date.
Kimberly King is responsible for the strategic direction, management and
success of the Progress partner community. King and her team will help
current Progress Partners grow their overall revenue, while recruiting
new software vendors into the Progress community.
Before joining Progress, King was general manager and senior vice
president, Worldwide Channels and Alliances at Compuware responsible for
the strategic partner and channels program. In this role King was
responsible for the world wide strategic partner and channel program.
During her tenure she developed a new go-to market strategy for service
providers and hosters, which resulted in 100 percent growth
year-over-year for FY12.
Most recently, Kim was named one of CRN magazine's 2012
Top Women of the Channel. She has also been recognized as a CRN
magazine Channel Chief for three consecutive years in 2010, 2011 and
2012. King also sat on the channel leadership forum for IPED in 2012.
Quotes:
Phil Pead, executive chairman of the board at Progress Software, said:
"The Application Development business line generates the largest share
of revenue for the company, boasting more than 1,400 active ISV's
developing both on-premise and Cloud applications using OpenEdge, and 4
million users of OpenEdge based applications. Application development is
core to the business strategy and Progress' mission to simplify and
enable the development of business applications. Karen Tegan Padir and
Kimberly King will perform critical roles in helping Progress further
develop and provide leading-edge application development products and
services to both Progress' customers and the company's substantial
partner community."
About Progress Software Corporation
Progress Software Corporation (NASDAQ: PRGS) simplifies the development,
deployment and management of business applications on-premise or on any
Cloud, on any platform and on any device with minimal IT complexity and
low total cost of ownership. Progress Software can be reached at www.progress.com
or 1-781-280-4000.
Follow Progress Software on Twitter: @ProgressSW
Progress and OpenEdge are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Progress Software Corporation or one of its subsidiaries or affiliates
in the U.S. and other countries. Any other names contained herein may be
trademarks of their respective owners.
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Progress Software
Rachel Harnden, +44 (0) 1344 386387
rharnden@progress.com
Twitter:
@ProgressSW
or
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PR
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progresssoftware@lewispr.com
Source: Progress Software Corporation
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