PR: Bill Sickler Joins Arzoon as Chief Executive Officer
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bill Sickler Joins Arzoon as Chief Executive Officer Successful Technology Executive Brings Strong Background of Sales Growth and Operational Leadership to Global Supply Chain Company SAN MATEO, Calif., Dec. 16, 2003 -- Arzoon, Inc., a leading provider of Supply Chain Process Management (SCPM) technology, today announced the appointment of long-time Silicon Valley veteran Bill Sickler as CEO and President. Sickler brings over 27 years of strong leadership and operational experience to Arzoon. Sickler will succeed Farid Dibachi, founder of Arzoon, who resigned to pursue other interests. Dibachi co-founded Arzoon in 1999 with a vision of providing software for supply chain execution and visibility that unifies international trade logistics and transportation management on a single platform. Under Dibachi's leadership, Arzoon was able to acquire such Global 2000 clients as Solectron, Saint-Gobain, Union Pacific Railroad, and McLane/Vantix Logistics. "Bill comes to Arzoon with outstanding execution and solid leadership skills in the high technology industry, including tenure as CEO of Gadzoox, where he completed a successful IPO and helped drive the valuation of the company over $1 billion," said Bob Todd, Arzoon board member and General Partner with Red Rock Ventures. "Over the past ten years, as CEO with four technology companies, Bill has delivered rapid growth while building processes and infrastructure to support future expansion. We expect him to continue to expand Arzoon's market share and drive the Company toward long term profitability." Prior to joining Arzoon, Sickler served as the CEO for Reactive Network Solutions, Caspian Networks, Gadzoox Networks, and Network Computing. While at Caspian Networks he focused on re-structuring the executive, sales, and engineering teams and reduced the company's expense rate by 35% while keeping product development and delivery on schedule. As a result of these accomplishments, Caspian was able to successfully raise $120 million in a fourth round of private financing. During his tenure at Gadzoox Networks, the Company became an early leader in the SAN market and completed a successful IPO. At Network Computing, Sickler tripled revenue while cutting expenses in two and a half years. Sickler also spent 12 years at Ungermann-Bass where his last position was chief operating officer. "Arzoon has the right ingredients and momentum to be a driving force in the global supply chain execution market. The Arzoon LIFE(TM) product suite gives our customers the power of Global Execution and our whole-product approach to supply chain execution, trading partner integration and financial management delivers comprehensive control and compliance. I am looking forward to working with our customers and highly skilled organization over the coming months," said Bill Sickler, CEO and president of Arzoon. About Arzoon, Inc. Arzoon is a leading provider of Supply Chain Process Management (SCPM) technology. Arzoon's solution suite, Arzoon LIFE(TM), provides visibility and control of integrated transportation and import/export processes and delivers cost savings, trade security, and supply chain advantage to Global 2000 companies. The Arzoon LIFE(TM) family of Web-based solutions offers robust functionality in transportation sourcing, optimization, and execution, import/export compliance, inventory visibility, event management, reporting and analysis, and freight settlement. Arzoon LIFE software is used by of leading companies around the world in the consumer manufacturing, retail, high technology, transportation services, and manufacturing industries. Founded in September 1999, Arzoon, Inc. maintains its worldwide headquarters in San Mateo, Calif. and has operations and offices located throughout North America and Europe. Arzoon can be contacted in the U.S. at +1.650.522.6000 or at www.arzoon.com Contact: Stephanie Piche Arzoon, Inc. Phone: 650-522-6085 http://www.arzoon.com s.piche@arzoon.com # # # Distributed by eReleases - http://www.ereleases.com To be removed or revise your subscription, forward this entire email (including headers) to: newsbureau@ereleases.com You are registered under this email address: submit@theautochannel.com