Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ: DWCH), a leading global provider of visual data discovery solutions, announced today the appointment of John P. Judge as chief revenue officer, senior vice president of Worldwide Sales. Mr. Judge was most recently the senior vice president, Americas Enterprise Sales for Iron Mountain Corporation, a company with revenues of more than $3 billion, where he was responsible for nearly one third of the company’s revenue. Prior to joining Iron Mountain, Mr. Judge held senior sales role at Novell, SilverStream Software, and Honeywell.
At Datawatch, Mr. Judge will be responsible for all sales, services and partner operations globally. Mr. Judge holds a bachelor of science in business administration and marketing from the University of Maine.
“John’s appointment demonstrates to our customers, partners, shareholders and employees alike that Datawatch is committed to accelerating long-term growth,” said Michael Morrison, president and chief executive officer of Datawatch. “With John’s leadership, our sales organization will bring a value-based selling approach to the rapidly growing visual data discovery market, create a clearer articulation of our approach to vertical industries, deepen our engagement with channel partners, and increase our contribution to client success. We are thrilled to add another world-class executive to the Datawatch management team.”
“To me, it’s all about the customer experience,” said Mr. Judge. “Datawatch is exciting, because I believe we have the opportunity to challenge assumptions with transformational technology, bring a broader point of view to how data visualization can speed up our customers’ businesses, and foster a client facing experience that will create true brand differentiation in the market and expand our business significantly.”
About Datawatch Corporation
Datawatch Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: DWCH) provides visual data discovery software that optimizes any data – regardless of its variety, volume, or velocity – delivering next generation analytics to reveal valuable insights for improving business. Its unique ability to integrate structured, unstructured, and semi-structured sources like reports, PDF files and EDI streams with real-time streaming data into visually rich analytic applications allows users to dynamically discover key factors that impact any operational aspect of their business. This ability to perform visual discovery against any data sets Datawatch apart in the big data and visualization markets. Organizations of every size, worldwide use Datawatch products, including 99 of the Fortune 100. Datawatch is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts with offices in New York, London, Munich, Stockholm, Singapore, Sydney and Manila, and with partners and customers in more than 100 countries worldwide.
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