Pitney Bowes Reorganizing Operations; Shearer, Wright Named to Senior Roles
April 09 2013 - 9:15AM
Business Wire
Pitney Bowes Inc. (NYSE:PBI) today announced it is planning to
reorganize its business operations and is making two leadership
appointments in newly-constituted SMB Mailing and Software
businesses. Mark Shearer is joining the company as Executive Vice
President and President, Pitney Bowes SMB Mailing Solutions and
Mark Wright is joining as Executive Vice President and President,
Pitney Bowes Software Solutions. These appointments are a
continuation of the reorganization of business operations that
began with the previously-announced establishment of the Global
Client Services organization and the appointment of Kevin Connolly
last month.
Mark Shearer, newly-appointed EVP and
President, Pitney Bowes SMB Mailing Solutions (Photo: Business
Wire)
Shearer and Wright will join the company on April 15, and both
will report directly to President and CEO Marc Lautenbach.
As president of Pitney Bowes SMB Mailing Solutions, Shearer
takes on the leadership of an organization that will be focused on
mailing products and technologies worldwide in the small and medium
sized marketplace. Pitney Bowes has been a world leader in this
business for 93 years. Shearer’s role is to drive an ever-improving
client experience to this marketplace, to move best products and
practices rapidly across national borders and markets, and to
simplify the ways in which clients can interact with the company in
the future.
Shearer had a 30-year career at IBM, where he held a broad range
of general management, business and product strategy, and marketing
senior leadership positions. He led both startup and mature
businesses, with deep experience in the SMB space, and excelled at
leading complex global organizations. Notable accomplishments at
IBM included leading IBM’s first pre-defined services package for
small and medium size clients, leading worldwide sales
relationships with large financial institutions and creating growth
with telecom and media clients in Asia Pacific. He also held senior
roles in marketing, which included the successful re-launch of the
IBM mainframe, leading the $2B IBM System I business, and, in his
last role at IBM, serving as VP of Marketing and Strategy for IBM’s
$20B hardware businesses.
As President of Pitney Bowes Software, Wright will take over an
expanded portfolio that will bring into one organization a broader
spectrum of the company’s software offerings. In addition to the
current product lines that specialize in data management, location
intelligence and customer communications for enterprise clients,
the expanded Pitney Bowes Software will also include technologies
that help consumers during major life-changing events embodied in
our Imagitas business. By bringing together Pitney Bowes software
technologies into a single organization, the company will bring new
scale to the marketplace, with resulting opportunities to develop
greater innovations and enhance the experience enjoyed by Pitney
Bowes clients.
Wright joins Pitney Bowes with two decades of leadership in the
information technology and enterprise software sales and marketing
arena with a record of growing revenue and integrating diverse
software businesses creating synergies and scale. Most recently, he
served as Executive Vice President for Infor Global Solutions,
where he had led 15 business units with $512M in annual revenue.
Prior to Infor, Wright was President & CEO of Aurema,
successfully building a leading global provider of enterprise
resource management software, and eventually selling the company
assets to Citrix Systems in 2007. Wright’s early career was at IBM,
where over 18 years, he rose through the ranks from Sales
Representative to Sales Leader to Business Unit Executive,
eventually holding the title of Vice President, Software Sales and
Marketing, Small & Midmarket Business, Americas.
“When I joined Pitney Bowes, I said that this company’s best
days are ahead of it,” Lautenbach said. “In Mark Shearer and Mark
Wright, we have two executives who strongly share this view, and
have the rich experience to make it happen. I am very excited to
have them on board to help create a better experience for our
clients around the world.”
The company also announced the departure of Leslie Abi-Karam,
Executive Vice President and President, Pitney Bowes Communications
Solutions, and John O’Hara, Executive Vice President and President,
Pitney Bowes Software Solutions, both of whom will be assisting in
the transition over the next several months.
Abi-Karam joined Pitney Bowes in 1984 and served in numerous
leadership positions over the course of her career. Prior to her
current role, she served as Executive Vice President and President,
Document Messaging Technologies. Abi-Karam’s work ethic, commitment
and world-class execution resulted in successfully growing the DMT
organization. In her current role, she has led significant
transformational change focused on client retention and enhanced
operational efficiency. She has also expanded Pitney Bowes’s global
presence, and improved the company’s go-to-market strategies. Among
her many other achievements, Abi-Karam was the initial architect of
Pitney Bowes’s move into the software business, overseeing the
selection and integration of the company’s purchases of Group 1
Software, Emtex Software, and MapInfo.
O’Hara joined Pitney Bowes as part of the MapInfo acquisition in
2007, and was named President of Pitney Bowes Software in 2010.
O’Hara is a charismatic, inspirational and motivating leader with a
solid base of international business experience. With his strong
global perspective, O’Hara has helped expand the company’s software
product portfolio.
“Leslie Abi-Karam has had a long, distinguished and influential
career at Pitney Bowes, and deserves the many accolades she has
earned from across the industry. Within John O’Hara’s tenure at
Pitney Bowes, he has helped to drive a global culture and inspired
innovation within the software business,” said Lautenbach. “We wish
both Leslie and John well as they move on to the next phase of
their professional and personal lives.”
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes provides technology solutions for small, mid-size
and large firms that help them connect with customers to build
loyalty and grow revenue. The company’s solutions for
financial services, healthcare, legal, nonprofit, public sector and
retail organizations are delivered on open platforms to best
organize, analyze and apply both public and proprietary data to
two-way customer communications. Pitney Bowes is the only firm that
includes direct mail, transactional mail, call centers and in-store
technologies in its solution mix along with digital channels such
as the Web, email, live chat and mobile applications. Pitney Bowes
has approximately USD $5 billion in annual revenue and 27,000
employees worldwide. Pitney Bowes: Every connection is a new
opportunity™. www.pb.com
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