MakeMusic, Inc. Appoints Karen van Lith as Chief Executive Officer
June 15 2011 - 9:20AM
Business Wire
MakeMusic, Inc. (NASDAQ:MMUS) announced its board of directors
has appointed Karen van Lith (formerly Karen Beckwith) as
president, chief executive officer and director, effective June 13,
2011. Van Lith replaces interim CEO, Jeff Koch, who will remain on
the board of directors.
Karen van Lith (Photo: Business Wire)
Robert Morrison, chairman of the board of MakeMusic, stated, “We
are very excited to welcome someone of Karen van Lith’s caliber to
the MakeMusic management team. Karen has an exceptional record of
transforming companies through conversions to new technology
platforms and growth acceleration. We believe MakeMusic is poised
to enter into its next phase of growth as we invest in new products
and reposition our current products to take advantage of newer
technologies. Karen has the skill set and the experience to lead
MakeMusic in its continuing evolution. We also thank Jeff for
serving as interim CEO and look forward to his continued
contribution and service on the board.”
Karen van Lith stated, “I am very passionate about MakeMusic’s
business as well as its future growth prospects. MakeMusic has
strong, well established brands and loyal customers. The music
industry has always embraced the use of new technology and as such,
I look forward to leveraging my strengths to further expand and
enhance MakeMusic’s brands.”
Van Lith, 51, brings 20 years of leadership experience to
MakeMusic. Throughout her career she has consistently implemented
change to drive growth and profitability. For the past three years
van Lith has provided interim CEO leadership to companies in
start-up, high growth and crisis phases, in addition to running her
own internet-marketing services company. From 2000 through 2007,
she held the role of CEO & president of Gelco Information
Network, a SaaS company serving multi-national companies around the
world. Prior to that she was president of Ceridian Canada and SVP
business development at Ceridian Corporation, where she led the
company’s M&A efforts. Van Lith currently serves as a corporate
director of Associated Banc-Corp, a publicly-held regional bank
holding company headquartered in Green Bay, WI, and of Xata Corp.,
a publicly-held SaaS company serving the trucking industry
headquartered in Eden Prairie. She also served on the board of CNS,
a publicly-held consumer goods company headquartered in Eden
Prairie until its sale to GlaxoSmithKline in 2006. Additionally,
van Lith serves on the board of Food for Hungry Minds, a non-profit
organization that develops and runs schools and provides a path out
of poverty for the poorest children in the Philippines and
Honduras.
Van Lith has a Master’s of Business Administration from the
University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management in
Minneapolis and a Bachelor’s degree in accounting from St. Cloud
University in St. Cloud.
About MakeMusic, Inc.
MakeMusic®, Inc. is a world leader in music technology whose
mission is to develop and market solutions that transform how music
is composed, taught, learned and performed. For more than 20 years,
Finale® has been the industry standard in music notation software,
enabling composers, arrangers, musicians, teachers, students and
publishers to create, edit, audition, print and publish musical
scores. MakeMusic is also the creator of SmartMusic® interactive
software that is transforming the way students practice. With
SmartMusic, students and teachers have access to thousands of band,
orchestra and vocal pieces allowing students to practice with
background accompaniment and get immediate feedback on their
performance. SmartMusic allows teachers to individualize
instruction and document the progress of every student. Additional
information about this Minnesota company can be found at
www.makemusic.com.
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