FREMONT, Calif., July 22 CA-ABBYY-New-VP
FREMONT, Calif., July 22 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY, a leading provider of
document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced
that it has appointed Steven Kincade as the ABBYY USA vice president of
channel sales for North America. As head of the value added reseller (VAR) and
retail sales teams, Steven will apply his 19 years of sales experience to
expand the channel sales team, build on sales growth momentum in existing
markets, and identify and penetrate new markets.
A Fortune 250, high technology, wireless sales and strategic marketing
leader, Steven is a seasoned veteran of the C-level hardware, software,
solutions sales, marketing and operations spaces. His extensive background in
leadership roles includes positions with Intermec Technologies Corporation,
Symbol Technologies Inc., Research in Motion and Motorola Inc. Steven's
passion for building and leading high performance teams will be essential to
his role with ABBYY in managing corporate and retail sales.
"I am elated by the opportunity to contribute to the leading company in
the data capture, document recognition and linguistic technology space,"
Kincade said. "I look forward to working closely with current and future
channel partners to drive growth, differentiation and solution innovation to
the benefit of our mutual clients."
Steven joins ABBYY USA from Fiserv, Inc, where as vice president, national
sales and service, he was instrumental in achieving growth of 23 percent over
the previous year. While at Fiserv, Steven implemented a new National Retail
Account Capture program that motivated direct sales to identify and close
seven new major accounts including Wal-Mart, Farm Fresh, Supervalu, HEB and
Radio Shack, while increasing service penetration with leading utility
industry leaders such as Duke Energy, PG&E, Sempra, AT&T and Bell South.
"Steven comes to ABBYY with an impressive track record of innovative
leadership and building enduring relationships with business partners," said
Dean Tang, president and CEO of ABBYY USA. "With his established history of
delivering targeted results and a deep knowledge of the software industry, he
is highly qualified to play an integral role in expanding ABBYY's presence in
key North American markets. We are fortunate to welcome Steven as a member of
the ABBYY team."
About ABBYY
ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and
linguistic software. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical
character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data
capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools.
Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY software to
automate time- and labor-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes.
ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of
Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education
of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government
of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon,
EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung
Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from
the world's top manufacturers such as BenQ, Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox,
Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in
Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United States, Ukraine, the UK
and Japan. For more information, visit http://www.ABBYY.com.
ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, Lingvo and FlexiCapture are either
registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Other product names
mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective owners and are hereby recognized.
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