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 Addition of 20-Year Veteran Positions Citadon for Expansion and Accelerated Growth
San Francisco and London - September 10, 2004 - Citadon, the leader in integrated Web-based collaboration, document management and business process management solutions, today announced that Russell Shelton has joined the company as Vice President of Marketing. Mr. Shelton joins Citadon from SteelEye, where he served as the vice president of marketing. Prior to SteelEye, Mr. Shelton previously held senior roles at Serena Software and Striva Technology. "Russ is a key addition to the senior leadership team. His strong enterprise software marketing experience, coupled with a background in business development and international sales, will be invaluable as we expand Citadon's markets and product offerings," said Howard Koenig, CEO of Citadon.
"I am very excited to join Citadon, which has a well established reputation and is positioned at the intersection of two of the most dynamic trends within business - collaboration, and the fusion of content and process management," said Mr. Shelton. "Citadon is the only solution provider capable of delivering complete, scalable solutions that enable customers to gain the benefits of integration between business critical content, process automation and collaboration within and between enterprises. Moreover, the upcoming Velocity product release will transform the marketplace," Mr. Shelton added.
Mr. Shelton brings more than 20 years of enterprise software solutions Citadon. At SteelEye, Mr. Shelton was instrumental in guiding the company to become a leading provider of business continuity solutions for the rapidly growing industry-standard and blade server markets. Prior to SteelEye, Mr. Shelton held senior marketing management, business development and international sales positions at Serena Software, where he helped guide the company through a highly successful initial public offering. His previous experience also includes marketing leadership roles with Striva Technology (acquired by Informatica) and Diversified Software where he served as vice president of marketing and business development.
About Citadon Citadon is an award-winning provider of Web-based collaboration and Business Process Management solutions for distributed and project-oriented organizations. Citadon provides
on-demand solutions that enable customers and their constituents to seamlessly share and manage a wide variety of document types, automate and propagate complex business processes, collaborate and communicate without barriers while providing a mechanism for capturing and leveraging knowledge. Citadon has recently released industry-specific solutions for several key markets.
Today more than 60,000 subscribers in over 60 countries rely on Citadon to deliver business-critical automation and management. Current Citadon customers include Shell Oil Products, Transport for London, Bechtel Group, Chicago Transit Authority, GM, Alcoa, ICA Fluor, Ameren, Parsons Iraq Joint Venture and Novo Nordisk Engineering. For more information, please visit: www.citadon.com.
Media Contacts:
Citadon, San Francisco Dan Pepper - 415-216-2303 dpepper@citadon.com
Allison & Partners Public Relations, Los Angeles Caroline Somphone - 310-788-0456 caroline@allisonpr.com
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