MINNEAPOLIS — Dec. 15, 2008 — Gearworks, a leading provider of location-based mobile business applications, today announced it has made several recent additions to its executive team in support of the company’s continued growth. Gearworks was recently recognized by CJ Driscoll and Associates as the “fastest growing handset-based mobile resource management (MRM) company.”
Dave Litwak has joined Gearworks as senior vice president of sales and carrier development. Previously he served as vice president and general manager for the Sprint Business Unit at Good Technology, now part of Motorola, where he was responsible for sales and marketing strategies for their mobile messaging software through the Sprint channel.Under Litwak’s leadership, Good Technology made significant market share gains within the Sprint channel and closed numerous flagship enterprise accounts. Prior to Good Technology, Litwak served as senior vice president of sales for MarketLive and also held senior sales roles at Manugistics.
Nanci Anderson has joined Gearworks as vice president of service delivery and customer operations. She previously served as vice president of customer operations at Gelco (acquired by Concur) – a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) provider of enterprise expense management solutions. Anderson also held senior customer service and support positions at enterprise software companies Cognos Corporation and Lawson Software.
Steve Snyder has joined the company as chief financial officer. He formerly served as Xiotech Corporation’s chief financial officer and general manager of the company’s largest operating division and played a pivotal role in the company’s corporate growth and acquisitions strategies. Prior to Xiotech, he served as the chief financial officer and corporate secretary for Ancor Communications (aquired by QLogic) and served as corporate controller for Cray Research.
“I’m pleased to have attracted such talented and accomplished executives to Gearworks over the last several months,” said Todd Krautkremer, president and CEO of Gearworks. “Their experience in mobile, SaaS and high-growth technology companies will be invaluable as we enter the next stage of growth fueled by our carrier-class Appmosphere mobile application platform.”
About Gearworks
Gearworks provides the industry’s leading carrier-class platform for location-based mobile applications that help businesses increase employee productivity and safety, improve customer satisfaction and reduce fuel, overtime, and other operating costs. Through Gearworks’ appmosphere™ platform, wireless carriers deliver location-based business applications to market faster, software vendors mobilize their applications easily, and enterprises cost-effectively integrate and deploy their back-office applications and business processes to their mobile workforce through any wireless carrier on any mobile device. Appmosphere is the technology foundation for Gearworks’ industry-leading mobile workforce management applications, including etrace® and other carrier-branded products. With appmosphere and its applications, the company serves thousands of small- to medium-sized business and enterprise customers across a broad range of industries — including healthcare, field service, home and store delivery, construction, utilities and government services.
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