Brainware Continues to Hire the Industry's Best Sales Talent

ASHBURN, Va., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Brainware, Inc., the leading provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions, today announced the appointment of two new executive sales veterans to the company's leadership team. Todd Hicks, formerly of Thomson Reuters Corporation, joins Brainware as the company's Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Stephen Xeller, formerly of Experian, joins the company as Vice President of North American Sales.

Hicks and Xeller each bring a proven track record of experience and leadership to Brainware's sales organization, which has grown rapidly in recent months to include industry veterans such as Colin Kaye (ReadSoft), John Craig (ReadSoft), Jenn Pelletier (Autonomy), Stuart Neale (ReadSoft, TIS) and Blaine Owens (EMC/Captiva).

"The market for intelligent data capture continues to expand in areas like invoice processing, but is also taking off in other enterprise operations such as remittance processing, order processing and mailroom automation," said Carl Mergele, Chief Executive Officer at Brainware. "We intend to capitalize on this growth among Global 2000 accounts by recruiting and hiring the best sales talent in order to advance our corporate plans in 2010 and beyond."

Todd Hicks, Vice President – Worldwide Sales

Hicks joins Brainware from Thomson Reuters, where he successfully led the national sales organization and was responsible for new and existing accounts within the company's Westlaw Business division. At Brainware, Hicks will lead the US, UK, and European sales and partner organizations as the company continues to expand its footprint to meet the growing demand for its solutions. Hicks earned a degree in Accounting from Eastern Michigan University and served proudly in the United States Army.

Stephen Xeller, Vice President Sales – North America

Xeller joins Brainware from Experian QAS, where he led the fastest growing sales team in QAS history, delivering 100% year-over-year growth for the past three years. He is an expert in providing structure and leadership to sales organizations in explosive growth modes and will be responsible for managing Brainware's North American sales team. Xeller is a graduate of Fairfield University.

About Brainware

Brainware, Inc. is an innovative provider of intelligent data capture and enterprise search solutions that help Global 2000 companies eliminate costly manual data entry, rapidly process large volumes of documents and retrieve data from across the enterprise. Its solutions were built from the ground up to manage unstructured data without templates, exact definitions, taxonomies or indexing. Headquartered in Ashburn, Virginia, Brainware maintains global sales and support operations through its North American, U.K. and European offices. Brainware customers include Airbus, Alcon, Alltel, Amgen, Anadarko, BB&T,  British American Tobacco, Continental Airlines, CORT, Gardner Denver, Halliburton, Her Majesty's Prison Service, Johns Manville, JohnsonDiversey, Kimberly-Clark, KPMG, NHS/Steria, Newell Rubbermaid, Phillip Morris International, Reynolds & Reynolds, Rockwell Automation, Shell, Southern Company, Sun Chemical, The Bank of New York Mellon/SourceNet, TriZetto, and many others. For more information, please visit www.brainware.com.

SOURCE Brainware, Inc.

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