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ROME Corporation
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
ROME Corporation Expands Global Sales Team
ROME invests in further resources to grow customer base in Europe and North America
London — 06 February, 2008 —ROME Corporation, the leading provider of Credit Risk Management solutions for the energy market, has hired two new key personnel, Charlotte Wales and James Garland, to join its global sales team.
Charlotte Wales has been appointed as Business Development Manager to head up the European sales operation. Prior to joining ROME, Charlotte was Senior Sales Executive for the energy division at Financial Objects PLC. Charlotte has many year’s experience in the energy credit risk marketplace having previously worked at Raft International PLC, a London-based risk management software provider. Charlotte was instrumental in taking Raft’s credit risk management product into the energy market in 2001.
James (Jim) Garland joins Dennis Hernandez, Vice President of Sales, and his team in the US as Sales Director. Most recently Jim was Sales Director at Parlano Inc. which was acquired by Microsoft in 2007. Jim has a successful business development track record with more than 20 year’s experience in the energy markets. Prior to Parlano, he held senior sales positions at SunGard, GlobalView Software, Logical Information Machines (LIM) and Reuters.
“We see a lot of potential for growth in this sector due to changing regulatory demands, amongst other things, and we are expanding our team both in the US and Europe to leverage this growth potential. As well as the recent hires in our sales team we have also taken on new business analysts, technical architects, project managers and significantly expanded the product development team to continue to support our growing business.” said David Achim, President and CEO, of ROME Corporation.
ROME has a proven track record in the energy markets and has the largest number of energy credit risk customers with implementations throughout the US and Europe. The team at ROME dedicated to energy credit risk management now totals more than 70 people.
About ROME Corporation
ROME Corporation is a leading enterprise software company delivering risk management solutions to companies in the energy marketplace. ROME’s suite of credit risk management products work together to help automate and streamline the processes for managing contracts, collateral, counterparties, credit scoring, and exposure.
ROME products enable our customers to minimize risk while achieving greater efficiencies, increased liquidity and improved transparency. ROME Corporation is privately held, with investments from Azure Capital Partners and Powershift Ventures L.P. The company is based in Austin, Texas, with sales and services offices in Houston and London. For further information please visit the company’s website at www.romecorp.com.
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