Baan UK appoints managing director

Former IBM and Hewlett-Packard senior executive is to help build on UK sales success and continue Baan's drive to become the leading provider of industrial software solutions and services.

Former IBM and Hewlett-Packard senior executive is to help build on UK sales success and continue Baan's drive to become the leading provider of solutions and services to the Industrial Enterprises marketplace.

The appointment follows recent Invensys strategic review announcement that positioned Baan as key unit within new Invensys Production Management division.

Baan - the global provider of B2B collaborative commerce solutions and part of Invensys plc - has appointed Gavin Dodd as its new Managing Director in the UK.

Gavin Dodd will focus on continuing to grow Baan's sales success in the important UK sector by driving the deployment of the iBaan suite of knowledge-driven, Internet-enabled solutions to UK manufacturing, logistics, sales and services organisations.

This appointment will further strengthen the Baan UK management team and will help the company to achieve its goal of becoming the leading provider of solutions and services to the Industrial Enterprises marketplace.

Gavin Dodd previously held the position of UK Sales and Marketing Director for Baan UK and managed the Baan UK sales team, developing business from the indirect channel.

He originally joined Baan UK from EMC, where he helped establish the company's New and E-Business' division and was responsible for recruiting the sales team, instigating marketing programs, and sales and pre-sales management.

Before EMC, Gavin Dodd worked at Silicon Graphics for two years and ran the manufacturing group and the channel business.

Previously, he was a sales manager for IBM's midrange and UNIX systems and worked for Hewlett-Packard for seven years in a range of sales management, new business and major account roles.

Commenting on Gavin Dodd's appointment, Erik Seppenwoolde, President of Baan EMEA said: "The UK business is an important part of the global Baan operations and with recent customers including DARA, Ellis and Everard and Hi-Lex, the UK continues to make a strong contribution towards our corporate growth.

As confirmed in the recent announcement following Invensys plc's strategic review, Baan is a core component of the Invensys go-forward strategy.

This strong position, together with Gavin's leadership, will enable UK organisations - with the help of Baan's solutions - to continue to drive their enterprise performance strategies through enhanced customer intimacy, operational excellence and product leadership." Gavin Dodd added: "As part of the new Invensys Production Management division, I look forward to the challenge of leading Baan UK forwards to maximise our potential across all key vertical sectors - electronics, automotive, aerospace and defence, and industrial machinery and equipment.

As part of this new strategy, we will also focus on extending our services portfolio and activity, and will support this move with plans to increase the consulting force by almost 50 per cent.

This will provide our customers with demonstrable, value-added services and solutions based on our leading iBaan suite to help them maximise ongoing Return on Investment." More information will be given at inForum - the event for business leadership - to be held on 17-19 April in Rome, Italy.

For details, please visit http://inforum.baan.com.

Baan helps industrial enterprises optimise their enterprise performance strategies and compete in the knowledge-driven 'networked economy', with its ever increasing demands for information, integration, and collaboration.

Through its open and powerful iBaan suite of Internet-enabled solutions, Baan is ideally placed to support organisations in the manufacturing, logistics, services, and engineering industries as they move towards tighter integration of their complex processes, closer collaboration throughout their value chain, and greater accessibility of cross-enterprise transactional and analytical information.

Baan has more than 15,000 customer sites worldwide and is part of the Production Management division of Invensys PLC.

Invensys plc, the international production technology and energy management group, specialises in helping companies to improve efficiency, performance and profitability.

With close to 76,000 employees, Invensys is headquartered in London, England.

Our Production Management businesses work closely with customers in order to drive up performance of their production assets and maximise the return on investments in product technologies.

The division includes Foxboro, Wonderware, Triconex, APV, Eurotherm and Baan and it addresses the oil, gas, and chemicals; food beverage and personal healthcare; and discrete and hybrid manufacturing sectors.

Our Energy Management businesses actively work with clients involved in both the supply and consumption of energy, developing systems using innovative technologies that improve the reliability and security of power supplies.

The division includes Energy Solutions, Metering Systems, Appliance and Climate Controls and Power Systems and focuses on markets connected with power and energy infrastructure and commercial and residential buildings.

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