Captaris Names New Executive Vice President of Marketing and Product Development
April 11 2007 - 10:00AM
PR Newswire (US)
Story Highlights BELLEVUE, Wash., April 11 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/
-- Captaris, Inc. (NASDAQ:CAPA), a leading provider of software
products that automate document-centric processes, announced the
appointment of Paul M. Yantus as Executive Vice President of
Marketing and Product Development. Reporting to CEO and President
David P. Anastasi, Yantus will lead global marketing, product
development and strategic partner development for Captaris. With
his strong background in the document management and solutions
markets, Yantus will provide leadership for the company as it
expands further into key growth segments within Enterprise Content
Management (ECM), Multifunction Printers (MFPs), document capture,
and further automation and management of inbound and outbound
documents and the processes surrounding them. "Paul is a hands-on
leader adept at recognizing market opportunities and creating
actionable business strategies to exploit them," said Anastasi. "He
has a proven track record of maximizing revenue and earnings
performance, and creating sustainable growth through
commercializing new products and services." Yantus was most
recently President and CEO of ScanOptics, a leading provider of
information capture and recognition technologies to the financial,
government, and education markets, where he led the privatization
of the company and successfully repositioned the company's
products. Prior to Scan- Optics, he founded Espire, an ASP solution
for managing branded messaging, and led the rapid growth of the
Custom Communications division for MSX International. Yantus has an
extensive background in capture, recognition, and document
management technologies including holding prior senior level
positions with Danka Office Imaging, Lason Systems, and Eastman
Kodak. "I believe Captaris is well positioned to capitalize on the
many exciting changes going on in capture," said Yantus. "I really
look forward to becoming part of the Captaris team and playing a
key role in shaping the company's future strategy as well as
producing positive results for its shareholders." About Captaris,
Inc. Captaris, Inc. is a leading provider of software products that
automate business processes, manage documents electronically and
provide efficient information delivery. Our product suite of
Captaris RightFax, Captaris Workflow and Captaris Alchemy is
distributed through a global network of leading technology
partners. We have customers in financial services, healthcare,
government and many other industries, and our products are
installed in all of the Fortune 100 and many Global 2000 companies.
Headquartered in Bellevue, Washington, Captaris was founded in 1982
and is publicly traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the
symbol CAPA. For more information please visit
http://www.captaris.com/. The following are registered trademarks
and trademarks of Captaris: Captaris, Alchemy, RightFax and
Captaris Workflow. All other brand names and trademarks are the
property of their respective owners. DATASOURCE: Captaris, Inc.
CONTACT: Dan Lucarini, Captaris, +1-303-930-4405, or Web site:
http://www.captaris.com/
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