ABBYY USA Appoints Rick Pierson as Director of Business Development

FREMONT, Calif., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- ABBYY, a leading provider of
document recognition, data capture and linguistic software, today announced
that it has hired Rick Pierson as director of business development for ABBYY
USA. Rick will be responsible for serving as a direct liaison between the
company and prospective partners, managing existing customer relationships,
and carefully analyzing business and customer needs to generate new revenue
streams.
Rick will use his more than 20 years of experience in establishing and
maintaining top dollar accounts for leading communications technology
companies to help create and further expand licensing deals for ABBYY
development tools and mobile applications with cell phone manufacturers and
application developers. Coordinating closely with internal departments, Rick
will play a pivotal role during negotiations, and will develop and maintain
contracts and legal documentation for new business.
As a dynamic business developer and strategic planner, Rick is an expert
at defining market strategy and establishing brand recognition. Rick joins
ABBYY from Immersion Corp, where he served as the director of business
development for mobility and gaming. As the primary public interface within
the wireless and mobile industry, Rick spearheaded market development and
partnering strategy for the Immersion emerging flagship mobility product,
focusing on penetrating over 50 new accounts within the Global 1000. During
his time with Immersion, Rick facilitated business deals with industry leaders
including Microsoft, Logitech, LG and Nokia. His extensive executive
management background also includes positions with NexTone, MediaRing and
ipVerse.
"Rick's business development vision is targeted and innovative, and his
experience considerable," said Dean Tang, president and CEO of ABBYY USA. "We
are confident in his ability to provide our customers with creative, efficient
results tailored to their specific needs, and are very happy to count him as a
member of the team."
About ABBYY
ABBYY is a leading provider of document recognition, data capture and
linguistic software. Its products include the ABBYY FineReader line of optical
character recognition (OCR) applications, ABBYY FlexiCapture line of data
capture solutions, ABBYY Lingvo dictionary software, and development tools.
Paper-intensive organizations from all over the world use ABBYY software to
automate time- and labor-consuming tasks and to streamline business processes.
ABBYY products are used in large-scale government projects such as those of
Australian Taxation Office, Lithuanian Tax Inspectorate, Ministry of Education
of Russia, Ministry of Education of Ukraine, and Montgomery County Government
of the USA. Companies that license ABBYY technologies include BancTec, Canon,
EMC/Captiva, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, NewSoft, Notable Solutions, Samsung
Electronics and more. ABBYY OCR applications are shipped with equipment from
the world's top manufacturers such as BenQ, Epson, Fujitsu, Fuji Xerox,
Microtek, Panasonic, Plustek, Toshiba, and Xerox. ABBYY is headquartered in
Moscow, Russia, with offices in Germany, the United States, Ukraine, the UK
and Japan. For more information, visit http://www.ABBYY.com.
ABBYY, the ABBYY Logo, FineReader, Lingvo and FlexiCapture are either
registered trademarks or trademarks of ABBYY Software Ltd. Other product names
mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their
respective owners and are hereby recognized.
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