Jesson, Former Regional CTO of EDS, Brings Expertise in Developing Enterprise-Class Applications for Fortune 1000 Companies
SEATTLE — Sept 11, 2007 — Attenex Corp., a leading e-discovery software provider, today announced that J.R. Jesson has joined Attenex as senior vice president of product development. Jesson, the former CTO for Application Services Field Operations – US, brings to Attenex over twenty years of experience leading teams in the research and development of enterprise-class software applications.
“Attenex has built a leadership position within the market because its innovative software has consistently helped Fortune 1000 customers dramatically reduce the cost and risk associated with e-discovery,” said Kimra Hawley, CEO of Attenex. “We’re committed to extending our lead even further by significantly expanding our R&D efforts and bringing J.R. Jesson on board is a big part of that strategy. We’re thrilled that J.R. is bringing his extensive engineering and management experience to Attenex.”
Prior to Attenex, Jesson was the regional technical leader for EDS Application Services, and before that led the global applications engineering team at EDS, the group responsible for strategy, architecture, design, development and R&D for global service offerings that supported $6 billion in annual revenue. Among his responsibilities, Jesson acted as a technology executive liaison for EDS Agility Alliance partners including Microsoft, PeopleSoft/Oracle and SAP. Previously, Jesson held executive-level engineering positions with companies including The Feld Group, Go-Comm, Inc., Digital Pilot Corporation and Multimedia Learning, Inc.
“Attenex has been a leader in developing an e-discovery application that supports both the legal department’s litigation strategy and the IT department’s data management investments and policies,” said J.R. Jesson. “I’m excited about the opportunity to contribute to the continuing success and innovation of Attenex Patterns.”
About Attenex
Attenex Corp. is changing the way corporations manage e-discovery. With an open software platform and industry expertise, Attenex enables corporations and their law firms to establish standardized e-discovery processes that reduce the risk, complexity and cost of litigation, regulatory requests and internal investigations. Whether deployed on-premise or as a hosted service through the industry’s largest network of global service providers, Attenex® Patterns® software provides corporations with control of e-discovery and the flexibility to choose the best solution for their needs. Attenex is headquartered in Seattle, Washington, and more information is available at www.attenex.com.
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