AUSTIN,Texas, January 22, 2007
Ashok Verma
NRI, Somesh Singh has has been appointed senior vice president
of Vignette to Lead R&D and Technical Operations in Texas,
effective February 13, 2007. He will oversee Vignette's global
engineering, customer care and IT organizations.
Vignette, a leading software company and their Web solutions
help Global 1000 organizations win and retain customers and grow
revenue by delivering custom content anytime, anywhere, to any
Internet-enabled device. Government agencies worldwide look to
Vignette to increase efficiency and more effectively connect and
interact with their constituents. Workflow solutions enable organizations
to digitize physical documents and manage and deliver that content
to multiple online channels. Their early content management and
delivery tools laid the groundwork for some of the Web’s
most popular sites. Today, our award-winning solutions power some
of the world’s most powerful online brands and enable organizations
to have more meaningful interactions with their customers.
Prior to joining Vignette, Singh held several positions at BMC
Software including vice president and general manager of Worldwide
Research and Development Operations and Cross Platform Technologies.
Most recently, Singh served as vice president and general manager
of BMC's Identity Management Services Business Unit where he helped
set the company's vision and strategy and played an integral role
in driving revenue and margin growth. Prior to joining BMC, Singh
was president, chief operating officer and director at iVita Corporation.
Somesh Singh holds a Master of Business Administration from The
Wharton School in Philadelphia, a Master of Science degree in
Chemical Engineering from Columbia University in New York and
a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Banares
Hindu University in India.
Ask Somesh Singh about his long and varied career in technology,
and he might tell you a story about his first day at IBM, back
in the 1980s. Other employees warned him that it might take months
to get access to the IT systems he needed if he waited for his
paperwork to find its way to each administrator in the system.
So, he spent his first day, walking from office to office, personally
securing signatures and permissions from each system administrator,
so he could do his job. And this, emphasizes Singh, was at one
of the foremost technology companies in the world.
About Customers, Somesh Singh express concern around
five basic issues:
