Skire Expands Executive Team with Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales
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Skire Expands Executive Team with Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Enterprise Software Sales Leadership Veteran Joins Skire to Fuel Next Phase of Growth

MENLO PARK, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 9, 2011 — Skire, Inc. ( www.skire.com), the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for managing capital projects, facilities, and real estate, today announced that Olivier Gachot has joined the company as executive vice president of worldwide sales. Gachot previously led worldwide sales and was the general manager of the SaaS division at LiveOps, a leading provider of on-demand contact center technology and call center outsourcing services.

“I am thrilled to welcome Olivier to Skire’s executive management team,” said Massy Mehdipour, founder and chief executive officer at Skire. “He brings a proven track record of successful sales leadership to Skire. Olivier’s vast experience selling mission critical enterprise software to the world’s leading organizations along with his strengths in building channel and international sales will be hugely beneficial to Skire as we look to accelerate our already strong growth and leadership position.”

Prior to LiveOps, Gachot was the executive vice president of sales, channels and alliances at Lombardi Software, a market leader in business process management software that was acquired by IBM in 2010. He led Lombardi through significant revenue growth, channel expansion and international market development. Earlier, Gachot served in leadership roles at Actuate, Interleaf and Sybase.

“Skire is a proven market leader in the capital project and program management (CPPM) and integrated workplace management systems (IWMS) markets,” said Olivier Gachot, executive vice president of worldwide sales at Skire. “The company has world-class customers, the industry’s most knowledgeable people, an incredibly robust product and a strong vision for truly transforming capital project, facilities and real estate management. I’m delighted to join Skire as we embark upon the next phase of our growth, and channel and global expansion.”

About Skire

Skire is the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for managing capital projects, facilities and real estate. Skire’s Unifier system has helped manage over $300 billion in capital projects and over three billion square feet of facilities and real estate. From Global Fortune 1000 companies, including five of the Fortune 10, to universities, local municipalities and small businesses, organizations of all sizes utilize our best-in-class system to improve operations, reduce costs and enhance service delivery. Skire’s solutions are purpose-built, flexible, and simple to deploy and use, and range from a full lifecycle IWMS approach to targeted solutions such as Project Controls, Document Management, Bid Management, Cash Flow Forecasting, Work Order Management, Lease Management, Space Management and more. For more information, visit http://www.skire.com.

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