Rob Glasier to Serve as The Head of Americas for AVEVA
 CAMBRIDGE,
England, June 29, 2007 - AVEVA (LSE: AVV) announced today that industry
veteran Rob Glasier has been promoted to Executive Vice President effective
July 2, 2007, and will serve as the Head of The Americas for AVEVA; where he
will be responsible for all of AVEVA's software and services business across
all the Process, Power, Marine and related industries in the Americas
region.
 Headquartered
in Houston, Texas, AVEVA’s Americas’ region provides sales, administration,
training, and technical support services throughout the United States,
Canada, and Central and South America. In addition to Houston, AVEVA also
has a large facility in Wilmington, Delaware; corporate entities and offices
in Canada and Mexico; and business partners and local offices throughout the
rest of Latin America.
Prior to this appointment, Rob has been responsible for AVEVA Americas’
Marine business for the shipbuilding and offshore industry, as well as its
asset and information lifecycle management business. Prior to AVEVA, Rob was
Head of Business Development, and an Owner of RealityWave Inc., which was
acquired by AVEVA, and whose technology is a component of AVEVA’s NET
Portal, VNET. Rob has extensive experience in sales, marketing, development,
and senior management. He was with Intergraph Corporation for many years,
running Intergraph’s Process, Power, and Building Solutions (PDS) Division;
Intergraph’s Shipbuilding Division; the Information Management Systems
Group; and the Mechanical Design and Manufacturing Division. Rob was also
vice president of Corporate Marketing for Intergraph. Before joining
Intergraph, Rob was Sales Manager, and then Product Manager for Unigraphics.
He also worked at General Motors and Boeing, among other corporations. Rob
holds a BSME (summa cum laude), and is a member of several trade and
industry associations. He is past Chairman of the National Computer Graphics
Association; and was inducted into the Computer Graphics Pioneers of
SIGGRAPH, being considered one of the founders of the computer graphics
industry.
“I am excited and enthused about being chosen to lead AVEVA Americas at
this dynamic time in our company and industry”, said Glasier. “AVEVA has a
product line second to none, the greatest company team members that I have
worked with, a superb customer base, and we are serving the most dynamic and
challenging industries the world has ever known.”
“We are really pleased to have Rob assume the leadership of AVEVA
Americas”, commented Richard Longdon, CEO of AVEVA Group plc. "Rob has a
proven track record of success, and strong leadership capabilities that will
be crucial for the continued growth of AVEVA in The Americas.”
About AVEVA Group plc
AVEVA Group plc is one of the world’s foremost and fastest-growing
lifecycle engineering IT solutions and services providers to the oil and
gas, paper and pulp, power, chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding
industries. Listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:AVV), the Group
reported pre-tax profits for the year ended March 2007 of GBP 24.7 million
on revenues of GBP 94.9 million. The Group has grown consistently since 1967
on the strength of pioneering engineering technology that protects the
information assets of its customers from the volatile nature of the IT
industry.
The Group's history of innovation spans five decades and has produced
most of today's major engineering IT technologies. Serving over 1600
clients, AVEVA has a dominant position in many market sectors both on and
offshore. In May 2004, the Group acquired Tribon Solutions AB, the
market-leading shipbuilding solution company and now serves 85% of the
world's top 20 shipbuilders.
The Group's clients include leading plant owner operators, shipbuilders
and engineering contractors such as Aker Kvaerner, ALSTOM Power, AMEC, Areva
NP, BASF, BP, China Huanqiu Contracting & Engineering Corporation, Daewoo
Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME), Dalian
New Shipbuilding, Du Pont, Electricité de France, ExxonMobil, Halliburton,
Hanjin Heavy Industries, Hitachi, Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard, Hyundai Heavy
Industries, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Kawasaki Shipbuilding Corporation,
Merck, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding,
North-West Electric Power Design Institute, Petronas Carigali, Samsung
Engineering, Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, Shell, Sinopec Engineering
Incorporation, STX Shipbuilding and Uhde.
Headquartered in Cambridge, England, AVEVA Group plc and its operating
subsidiaries currently employ more than 600 staff worldwide with offices in
England, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy,
Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden,
South Korea and the USA.
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