Press Releases : 2005
Oblicore Expands Management Team – Names Kevin T. Carr Vice President of Sales for the Americas
COLUMBIA, Md. October 17, 2005 - Oblicore, Inc., a leading provider of service level and business service management software, today announced the appointment of Kevin T. Carr as vice president of Americas Sales. Carr brings over 15 years of demonstrated success in software sales and management to Oblicore. During the most recent quarter, under his leadership, Oblicore’s Americas’ sales team achieved record results.
“Kevin Carr has proven time and again that he can inspire sales teams to generate record-breaking revenues – something he has already begun to do at Oblicore,” said Jack Freker, chief executive officer, Oblicore. “We are all very pleased to have Kevin join the Oblicore executive team.”
Before joining Oblicore in May of this year, Carr was vice president of sales for Candle Corporation, which was acquired by IBM in October 2004. At Candle, Carr led a 125-member sales organization that generated record revenue growth for eight straight years. Prior to Candle, Carr was an account executive with Computer Associates and Beacon Software.
“Oblicore is finding many large enterprises and service providers have reached the breaking point and can no longer afford the cost and complexity of using their homegrown applications or manual processes to manage and report on service performance,” said Kevin Carr, vice president, Americas Sales, Oblicore. “Increasingly, these businesses are selecting Oblicore’s solution, impressed by its automation capabilities, speed of deployment, and track record of delivering substantial ROI.”
About Oblicore
Oblicore provides the fastest path to guaranteed service delivery. Dozens of blue-chip service providers and enterprises worldwide use Oblicore to reduce the cost of service delivery, achieve compliance, increase customer retention and acquisition, and monitor critical business processes. Architected to provide business-focused, top-down service level management, Oblicore delivers the most complete and integrated software, as well as world-class best practices and expertise, facilitating guaranteed service delivery in record time. Headquartered in Columbia, Md., with offices across the US, Europe and Israel, Oblicore is backed by a strong, global investor base. For more information, please visit www.oblicore.com.
