BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Bsquare
(NASDAQ: BSQR) announced today that Peter
Biere will join the company as Chief Financial Officer
effective December 30, 2016. With
over three decades of financial and executive management
experience, Mr. Biere brings a wealth of domain expertise to
Bsquare as the company transitions to the Internet of Things (IoT)
software market through its innovative DataV™ solution.
Jerry Chase, Bsquare president
and CEO, stated that "Filling this vital executive position with
someone of Peter's caliber will help us accelerate our transition
from a company principally focused on third-party software
licensing and professional engineering services to a business in
which a growing percentage of revenue is derived from our own
high-margin IoT software solutions. We are delighted that Peter has
agreed to join our growing team."
Mr. Biere is an operationally focused senior financial executive
with a track record building value in middle market, emerging
growth and early stage private and public companies, including
eight years as CFO of two NASDAQ listed companies, Zones (now
private) and Lumera (now GigPeak). Mr. Biere's technology industry
expertise includes R&D and services as well as software and
software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies. Mr. Biere's leadership
experience includes business formation, cash management,
multiple-stage capital funding, business support systems,
teambuilding, exit strategies including IPO and M&A, SEC
reporting, SOX implementation and compliance as well as performing
interim CEO, COO and general management assignments. Mr. Biere
holds a BBA and MA in Accounting from the University of Iowa.
About Bsquare
For more than two decades, Bsquare has helped its customers
extract business value from a broad array of physical assets by
making them intelligent, connecting them, and using the data they
generate to optimize business processes. Bsquare DataV software
solutions can be deployed by a wide variety of enterprises to
create business-focused Internet of Things (IoT) systems that more
effectively monitor device data, automate processes, predict events
and produce better business outcomes. Bsquare goes a step further
by coupling its purpose-built DataV software with comprehensive
analytic and engineering services that can help organizations of
all types make IoT a business reality. For more information, visit
www.bsquare.com.
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