IntraLinks Names Managing Director for Europe, Middle East & Africa
Andrew Pearson to drive company's growth and expansion
London, 30th August, 2007
IntraLinks, the leading provider of secure online workspaces, today announced the appointment of Andrew Pearson as Managing Director for Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). Mr. Pearson has over 20 years of industry experience working for various entrepreneurial and high growth technology companies.
Mr. Pearson is an experienced leader with a proven track record in sales, marketing and general management. He joins IntraLinks from Workshare, an information security company, where he was responsible for sales, marketing and business development in EMEA and Asia Pacific. Following that, he took on global responsibility for the document control market unit, managing engineering, quality assurance, product marketing and management and customer services for Workshare’s flagship product lines.
Previously, Mr. Pearson was a key founding member of the European management team at Vignette, a provider of enterprise content management solutions, where he helped to grow the UK business from a start-up to $35m in revenue. He also served as Vice President, Sales & Marketing at Zuno, a start-up Internet software vendor, where he led the market launch of the company’s content management solutions for the media industry.
Andrew Damico, Chief Operating Officer, IntraLinks, Inc. said:
“We are very pleased to have Andrew on board. We are looking forward to building on our strengths in the EMEA region and Andrew will lead us forward in achieving these goals, using his many years of experience in the technology sector to ensure our success and our customers’ success.”
Andrew Pearson, Managing Director, EMEA, IntraLinks, added:
“I am very pleased to be given this opportunity. IntraLinks has a loyal client base in Europe and I am looking forward to the opportunity to engaging with those customers as well as developing the business in new areas. I believe that matching my experience with such a strong company will give us a successful future.”
About IntraLinks
IntraLinks® On-Demand Workspaces™ connect business communities and accelerate the intelligent flow of information and documents among participants. Through IntraLinks' secure, neutral, online environments, companies are better able to compete globally by accelerating essential business processes, simplifying communication and fostering rapid workflow. IntraLinks is easily accessible anywhere, anytime using a web browser.
Since 1997, more than 700,000 participants representing over 80,000 organisations worldwide have used IntraLinks On-Demand Workspaces™ to communicate and collaborate on thousands of projects and transactions. IntraLinks On-Demand Workspaces™ supply 170 languages via their client services workspace.
IntraLinks has been adopted widely in the financial services and pharmaceutical industries, where its clients include AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Deutsche Bank, FDIC, TD Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners and WestLB, among hundreds of others. IntraLinks has signed on 45,000 workspaces since its inception. Founded in 1996, IntraLinks is headquartered in New York with offices around the world. For more information, visit www.intralinks.com.
