AVEVA Appoints Hanno Tam as VP, Sales
 CAMBRIDGE,
England, August 2, 2007 - AVEVA (LSE: AVV), the leading supplier of
engineering IT systems for the plant and marine industries, today announced
that Hanno Tam has been appointed to the position of Vice President of Sales
for AVEVA Americas.
 Tam,
a seventeen-year AVEVA veteran, will oversee sales operations for Canada ,
Latin America, and the United States . He has over 20 years of experience in
the Process, Power and Marine industries in technical, sales, business
development, and managerial roles. Prior to this appointment, Tam as head of
region spearheaded AVEVA’s South East Asia countries and India sales
operations, growing that business more than 600% over the last three years.
Tam was a key member of the team that started AVEVA’s early operations in
Japan, Hong Kong and China , which has led to AVEVA’s major business
successes today, particularly in China ’s power market.
Prior to his career at AVEVA, Tam was a software developer and senior
design engineer in the shipbuilding industry with Cammell Lairds
Shipbuilding Ltd. and Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. He holds a
B.Sc. Hons in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering
from Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, England.
Tam will be based out of AVEVA’s Calgary, Alberta office.
“We are incredibly fortunate to have someone with Hanno’s experience head
up our Americas sales operations,” commented Rob Glasier, Head of AVEVA
Americas. “He’s a proven performer. He understands both the plant and marine
sides of AVEVA’s business, and knows the products thoroughly, having held
technical business development, sales, and operational roles with AVEVA. We
look forward to great things from him.”
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 Aibel, Aker Kvaerner, ALSTOM Power,
Andritz, Areva NP, BAE Systems, BASF, BP, CB&I, Chevron, China National
Nuclear, CNOOC Offshore Oil Engineering, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine
Engineering, ExxonMobil, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Jacobs, Mitsubishi Heavy
Industries, Petrofac, Product Services Network (PSN), SBM, Shell, Sinopec
Engineering
SNC Lavelin, TKMS – Thyssen Krupp Marine System, Uhde, VT Shipbuilding,
Wood Group ( Alliance & Mustang) and Worley Parsons .
Headquartered in Cambridge , England , AVEVA Group plc and its operating
subsidiaries currently employ more than 700 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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