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News Release from: BlueCielo ECM Solutions
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New appointments at EDM software
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CoCreate Software has announced two key officers, Gert Deiss as a vice president and chief operating officer, and Hansjoerg Plaggemars as a chief financial officer
CoCreate Software has announced two key officers as part of its strategy to advance its products and services to a new level of customer focus Gert Deiss was named a vice president and chief operating officer, and Hansjoerg Plaggemars was named chief financial officer of CoCreate Holding GmbH
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 13 Mar 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Both officers are located at CoCreate corporate headquarters in Sindelfingen, Germany.
In his new role, Mr Deiss will be responsible for the worldwide sales and field organization, and will maximize CoCreate's leadership position in team-oriented solutions for the entire product development process.
"Gert Deiss and Hansjoerg Plaggemars are uniquely suited to sharpening our customer focus and implementing an extended customer relationship management system as we grow the company," said Tilman F Schad, president and chief executive officer of CoCreate.
Mr Deiss, who joined CoCreate in May 1996, was responsible for developing Hewlett-Packard Company's Mechanical Design Division strategy, which led to the founding of CoCreate.
He brings more than 25 years of management experience to the position, having served at HP for 20 years and then as CoCreate Software's CFO for the past five years.
He holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Nurtingen.
Mr.Plaggemars, who joined the company in November 2000, will be responsible for CoCreate's legal, financial and administrative infrastructure, with the goal of optimizing the company's infrastructure to support sales and field organizations with effective and customer-oriented administration.
Mr Plaggemars advised financial investors 3i and Triton, as well as CoCreate's management team, on the financial transactions involved in establishing CoCreate as an independent entity.
Prior to that, he served as an assistant director for Corporate Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions at KPMG Corporate Finance, with a sector focus on information and communication technologies.
He was responsible for a number of corporate acquisitions and disposals, as well as for leveraged finance projects, privatizations and corporate valuations, and advised companies such as Xerox, Ericsson, E-Plus and Thyssen Telekom in corporate financial matters.
Mr Plaggemars holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Bamberg, Germany.
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