Press Releases<Tina Miteko INQUIRA TAPS ACCOMPLISHED SALES VETERAN FOR VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES Award-winning salesperson brings a thorough knowledge of InQuira after a successful sales-director stint with the company SAN BRUNO, Calif., April 18, 2005 — InQuira Inc., the leading provider of intelligent search solutions for improving the quality of customer interactions through websites and contact centers, today announced the appointment of Martin Savitt as vice president of sales. Savitt's more than 10-years' experience in sales and sales management include consistently exceeding sales quotas, receiving many awards and managing teams responsible for tens of millions of dollars in business. Savitt also brings to his new role an insider's experience with InQuira's solutions for improving personalized customer interaction on the web, having served as central-region sales director for the company in 2002. Savitt will be based in Chicago and will report to CEO Mike Murphy. In his career in sales, Savitt has consistently demonstrated an ability to identify opportunities, work with C-level executives to turn those opportunities into revenue, and regularly exceed even the most aggressive sales goals. As a manager, Savitt has repeatedly cultivated successful teams and improved all aspects of his companies' sales processes — from shortening sales cycles, to increasing average sale size, to significantly growing prospect pipelines, to dramatically increasing revenue. "With InQuira's large suite of solutions for improving the online experiences for businesses' web customers, it's a difficult art to find just the right set of solutions to best meet a company's needs, articulate those benefits and then develop the relationships necessary to get those solutions implemented," said CEO Mike Murphy. "With Martin Savitt now heading up our sales force, we've found just the right person to lead and inspire our team. Martin is a highly successful salesperson in his own right who's gone on to build and lead several winning teams. In addition, he's someone who knows our products and market firsthand, having helped InQuira grow our central-region presence in the past. We're thrilled to have Martin on board." "The list of InQuira customers that are household names speaks to the quality of this company's solutions, and it says a lot about how those solutions are improving the way people experience the web," said Savitt. "The overwhelmingly positive feedback weÆre hearing from these customers — some of the most successful and demanding companies in the world — is already making my job easier. After all, as the person tapped to head up the sales of these products, how could I not be enthusiastic about how successfully they're being implemented — and how could that enthusiasm not rub off on my team?" About InQuira InQuira, Inc., InQuira 6.5 are trademarks or registered trademarks of InQuira, Inc. User Interface Engineering, User Interface 8 Conference, and UI8 are trademarks of User Interface Engineering. All other company and product names may be trademarks of the company with which they are associated. |