Leading Sales Professionals from Data Capture and Document Management Industries Join Winning Brainware Team

ASHBURN, Va., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Brainware, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions, today announced the continued expansion of its sales team in order to support its aggressive goals for growth in both the United States and Europe. Brainware's recent customer successes for its best-of-breed data extraction and document processing solution, Brainware Distiller™, have enabled it to attract key sales team members from competing data capture vendors.

"The world's largest organizations have recognized that the Brainware solutions can drop significant dollars to a company's bottom line," said Carl Mergele, Chief Executive Officer at Brainware. "It is not just our client base that holds this belief but also professionals within our own industry. During the past year, sales executives from our industry have joined Brainware after seeing our solution's advantages and the impact that we are making on the market."

New additions to Brainware's sales team include:

• John Craig, Executive Director, Strategic Alliances. Craig comes to Brainware after serving as the Director of Sales for ReadSoft's North American operations. Prior to managing the North American sales organization, Craig was named ReadSoft Global Sales Person of the Year multiple times. Craig earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
• Stuart Neale, Account Executive. Neale, a sales professional within the document capture segment for over 15 years, joins Brainware to target business development in UK and Ireland.  Previous positions include senior sales roles at ReadSoft and Top Image Systems, where Neale was responsible for selling Invoice Processing and Digital Mailroom applications.
• Jenn Pelletier, Account Executive. Pelletier joins Brainware with more than 14 years of experience in selling software and information technology solutions. She will leverage this experience to drive business in New England and eastern Canada. Before joining Brainware, Pelletier held senior sales and client services positions with Autonomy and Touch Clarity. Pelletier earned an MBA from the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
• Tim Hood, Account Executive. Hood, a technology sales professional with more than ten years of experience, will focus on growing Brainware's presence in Europe. He joins Brainware from Version One, a UK document management company and has worked with both direct and strategic channel customers in the UK, Europe, South Africa and Australia. Hood earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Manchester (UK).
• Jonas Thomas, Account Executive. Thomas comes to Brainware with ten years of software sales experience. Prior to joining Brainware, Thomas held senior sales positions with Captaris, (now Open Text) and Digitech Systems, where he drove new software sales through strategic account management.
• Allan Pich, Manager, Sales Associates. At Brainware, Pich leads a team of sales associates. He brings seven years of sales and twelve years of leadership experience, spanning the commercial and government sectors. This experience includes positions with SES Americom, TEKsystems and Blackstone Technology Group. Pich began his career by serving in the United States Army for seven years as a satellite communications technician.  

Previously, the company announced that Colin Kaye, a former senior executive at Swedish data capture vendor ReadSoft, joined the Brainware management team. His appointment came after Blaine Owens, former Vice President of Sales at Captiva (now EMC), joined Brainware.

Brainware has also nearly doubled the size of its sales associate team. This group will work towards introducing Brainware to new companies in the healthcare, energy, telecom and manufacturing spaces, among others.

About Brainware

Brainware, Inc. is an innovative provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions that help Global 2000 companies eliminate costly manual data entry, rapidly process large volumes of documents and retrieve data from across the enterprise. Its solutions were built from the ground up to manage unstructured data without templates, exact definitions, taxonomies or indexing. Headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, Brainware maintains global sales and support operations through its North American, U.K. and European offices. Brainware customers include Airbus, Alcon, Alltel, Amgen, Anadarko, BB&T, bioMerieux, British American Tobacco, Continental Airlines, CORT, Gardner Denver, Halliburton, Her Majesty's Prison Service, Johns Manville, JohnsonDiversey, Kimberly-Clark, KPMG, NHS/Steria, Newell Rubbermaid, Phillip Morris International, Reynolds & Reynolds, Rockwell Automation, Shell, Southern Company, Sun Chemical, The Bank of New York Mellon/SourceNet, TriZetto, and many others. For more information, please visit www.brainware.com.

SOURCE Brainware, Inc.