asknet Announces New President asknet, Inc.
Mark Begin Takes Over Leadership for asknet Activities in North America
KARLSRUHE, Germany, April 26, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- asknet AG, one of the leading providers of outsourcing solutions for global software distribution via the Internet (Electronic Software Distribution - ESD) announces its new president of the US Subsidiary, asknet Inc, Mark Begin.
Mark has been partnering with asknets customers as VP of Global Account Management for the past few years, and is a member of the asknet management board. In his role, as VP Global Account Management, Mark launched the VIP process increasing the level of service to asknet customers - sharing asknets extensive online sales expertise and best practices to efficiently help customers grow their online sales.
In addition to managing asknet Inc., Mark Begin will be responsible for North American new sales activities and account management of existing accounts in the NA region.
"Over the last years we developed asknet successfully from a global online shop provider to a full-service outsourcing partner for vendors of digital content, and I am very excited to extend my role and convince the North American market that asknet's partner approach is more than a marketing Slogan," says Mark Begin.
asknet's CEO Michael Scheib adds: "We want to thank Aston Fallen, the former President of the asknet Inc. for his dedicated International Sales Focus and are extremely pleased with Mark taking over seamlessly in the NA market, as it is a key to us to strengthen our NA presence."
About asknet
asknet offers its clients customized outsourcing solutions for global software sales via the Internet. Founded in 1995 as a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT, formerly the University of Karlsruhe), the company has become the number two independent global provider for electronic software distribution. In addition to its fully integrated shop solutions for software publishers, the company develops and maintains portals for software distribution such as softwarehouse.de, one of Europe's largest platform for downloads of standard software. In 2009, asknet posted sales of approximately 68.9 million euros. In 2009 the Karlsruhe company was named in the Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu "Technology Fast 50" ranking of the fastest-growing technology firms in Germany. asknet's clients include numerous providers of specialty software such as CollabNet, DivX, F-Secure, Nero, Panda Security, Steganos, and NetObjects. The company also supplies software products to around eighty percent of German universities. Further information is available from http://www.asknet.com.
Press Contacts asknet AG Kirsten Neininger phone: +49(0)721-96458-6399 eMail: [email protected] asknet, Inc. Bernard Haug phone: +1(415)352-2622 eMail: [email protected] http://www.asknet.com
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