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Netezza Corp., a
provider of data management appliances, appointed Jon Niess to vice
president of international operations, a new position for the
company.
Before joining Netezza, Niess served as senior vice
president of worldwide sales operations at Vignette Corp. Prior to
that, Niess was area vice president at Oracle Corp.
"This is
a new position. We're just starting our international operations,"
said Netezza Chief Executive Jit Saxena. Niess, according to Saxena,
"was brought in to scale that operation."
Niess will lead
the company's overseas offices in Bracknell, England and Sydney. The
Sydney operations are new; a team
of three marketing and sales professionals were hired for the new
office.
Saxena said the Australian market is attractive
because he sees potential customers in the data warehousing market
there and because the location makes a good jumping point to
Asia.
Founded in 2000,
Netezza develops combined server, storage and database appliances
that are designed to analyze terabytes of data. The Netezza
Performance Server - which can range in size from 400 gigabytes to
27 terabytes - filters and processes records in order to answer
specific queries.
Saxena said 2004 sales have grown 180% over
2003, its first year of revenue.
Netezza's customers range
from retail and advertising to telecommunications companies, and
include AT&T Wireless Services Inc., CNET Networks Inc., Epsilon
Systems Solutions Inc., Orange UK, Premier Inc., Shoppers Drug Mat
Corp., Acxiom Corp. and Amazon.com.
Founded in 2000 and based
in Framingham,
Mass., the Company has
raised more than $68 million. In late December, the company closed a
$15 million Series D funding, led by new investor Meritech Capital
Partners, with participation from Matrix Partners, Charles River
Ventures, Battery Ventures and Sequoia Capital.
The CEO isn't
planning any more rounds of venture capital. "At this point, we're
just building the business."
The company has 150 full-time
employees. Most of the research and development is in Framingham, Mass., with sales offices around
the country.
http://www.netezza.com
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