CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
5 February 2007
Company News
Infor Taps Bruce Gheesling to Lead Enterprise Asset Management Business
Infor announced Bruce Gheesling has been named senior vice president of its Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) group. Gheesling is charged with leading Infor EAM operations worldwide, including growing the company's leadership position in delivering asset management solutions to companies of all sizes.
"Today's global marketplace requires active lifecycle management of a businesses major assets and components to achieve competitiveness," said Gheesling. "Infor is the leader in EAM, providing solutions with business specific functionality to meet the individual needs of our customers. I am thrilled to be a part of this company and look forward to continuing the success of our EAM solutions around the world."
With a strong focus on customer service, Gheesling brings more than 20 years of experience in the IT industry to Infor , having most recently been vice president of software sales for North America and Latin America for EMC Corporation. As the leader of the commercial software team at EMC, Gheesling was responsible for field sales, inside sales, pre-sales support, and the professional services team. He was instrumental in leading the turn-around effort at Legato Systems, Inc., later acquired by EMC.
Gheesling graduated Furman University with a Bachelor's of Arts degree in Political Science. At Furman, he was a three-time AP All American and All Southern Conference football player and later played in the USFL. He was inducted into the Furman University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999.
Infor Enterprise Asset Management solutions allow customers to maintain, manage, and improve the performance of their capital asset infrastructure, such as manufacturing equipment, fleet, and facilities by combining asset management functionality with advanced analytics to deliver a powerful platform for optimizing enterprise asset performance. Infor's EAM solutions go beyond traditional management of assets providing information that helps identify key trends and anomalies, forecast performance issues, model "what if" scenarios, make forward-looking decisions and take action.
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