Brian Browning promoted to Senior Director of Client Services for Ektron, Inc.

Brian Browning has been promoted to Senior Director of Client Services for Ektron, Inc. A press release will be issued in the coming weeks with additional information. In the interim, below is a summary of his new responsibilities.

Mr. Browning serves as the Senior Director of Client Services for Ektron, a leading provider of web content management systems. The Client Services team is responsible for providing Professional Services delivery, training support and best practices consultation for Ektron customers around the world. Based in Richmond, VA, his responsibilities include the oversight of Ektron-based Web Content Management System projects produced as part of the Ektron Professional Services team, providing pre-sales support for the Ektron Sales team and ensuring that customers are able to maximize their investment in Ektron's world-class WCMS tools and technologies.

In addition, as the Senior Director of Client Services, Mr. Browning is also responsible for the development and enforcement of the Ektron web site development methodology, provides strategic leadership around internal delivery processes and oversees and guides the Ektron Training team and internal Project Management Office. Mr. Browning is also responsible for managing the internal sales scoping process and resources for the Client Services team.  

Previously with Ektron, Brian served as the Director of Mid-Atlantic Professional Services and Director of East Coast Professional Services.

Brian Browning now the Director of East Coast Professional Services for Ektron, Inc.

Brian Browning has an amended title, moving from Director of Mid-Atlantic Professional Services to Director of East Coast Professional Services. His duties remain the same, but the areas that he supports are now channeled across the entire East Coast of the United States. Mr. Browning also supports other national and international customers of the Ektron Professional Services Group.

Brian Browning to participate in E-Strategy presentation at Ektron's SYNERGY 2009 Conference

I am excited to be a part of the "Creating your e-Strategy" session at Ektron's SYNERGY Conference. An overview of the session is presented below and more information about the conference can be found at http://synergy.ektron.com. The Strategy session is Wednesday morning - check out the Agenda link for more information. See you there! 

Creating Your E-strategy

Presenters:

• Chris Rogers, vice president of vertical solutions
• Nicole Rogers, marketing solutions consultant at Ektron
• Brian Browning, director of mid-Atlantic professional services at Ektron

Synopsis:
Strategically speaking, an e-strategy for any organization should be borne out of the existing overall strategy for growth and marketing. It should be aimed at building brand reputation, equity and affinity and should be a source for new visitors, a reference the existing audience and a voice for important messages. Government, healthcare and education, while intrinsically different in the services they provide, share common elements of e-strategy that can and should be applied to every business to promote successful growth. This panel, staffed by Ektron’s resident experts, will discuss successful e-strategies in these verticals and how they can and should be applied.

Press Release

Ektron Expands Professional Services Team, Opens Office in Richmond, Virginia

Brian Browning Joins Ektron Team as the Director of Mid-Atlantic Professional Services

NASHUA, NH August 26, 2009 – Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in Web content management software, today announced that it has opened a new office in Richmond, Virginia and has brought on Brian Browning as the director of Mid-Atlantic Professional Services.

The opening of the Richmond office and the addition of Mr. Browning will allow Ektron to better serve its growing customer base in the government sector and expand its Professional Services team. Bill Rogers, chief executive officer at Ektron commented, “I am thrilled to have Brian onboard. His ability to develop business units focused on exceptional customer experiences is the expertise that will take Ektron’s Professional Services to the next level.”

Browning comes to Ektron with 14 years of experience in design, development and implementation of technology-based initiatives for a variety of Fortune 500, government and nonprofit customers including, Philip Morris USA, the City of Fort Worth, Texas, the American Cancer Society and General Dynamics Information Technology. Prior to his role at Ektron, Browning served as a director in the Global Enterprise Content Management Practice at COMSYS Services, where he developed new service lines around User Experience, e-Learning and Web Strategy offerings.

As the director of Ektron’s Mid-Atlantic Professional Services team, Browning’s responsibilities include the oversight of Ektron-based Web content management projects produced as part of the larger Ektron Professional Services team. His focus will also be on providing pre-sales support for the Ektron Sales team and ensuring that customers are able to maximize their investment with Ektron CMS400.NET. In addition, Browning’s role extends to the management of the Richmond office.

“One of the factors that distinguishes our Professional Services team in Richmond is the deep subject matter expertise and experience found in both the management and delivery teams,” stated Browning. “By working with our customers first on a results-oriented, business-focused strategy, aligning their business goals with the power of the Ektron platform and helping to build their vision and Web strategy, we are able to transform businesses large and small. I am very excited to have joined the Ektron team and look forward to advancing the Professional Services team and the Richmond office.”

For more information on Ektron’s Professional Services visit: http://www.ektron.com/services.

About Ektron
Founded in 1998, Ektron is committed to providing revolutionary, scalable Web content management and authoring solutions. Ektron CMS400.NET empowers developers and non-technical business users alike: developers can take advantage of built-in Server Controls to deploy a Web site out of the box or customize the deployment using CMS400.NET’s well-documented API, and business users benefit from an intuitive user interface for managing their Web site’s content and messaging. From enterprise level deployments to single sites, CMS400.NET ships with a wide array of functionality, including social networking, Web 2.0, SEO and synchronization tools. Headquartered in Nashua, N.H., Ektron has more than 20,000 customer implementations worldwide, including LG, Sony, and Johnson & Johnson. For more information, visit: http://www.ektron.com.

Original Press Release available at: http://ektron.com/pressrelease_richmondoffice/

Brian Browning joins Ektron as Director of Mid-Atlantic Professional Services

I am thrilled to report that I have accepted a position with Ektron, Inc., a leading manufacturer of web-based content management systems (http://www.ektron.com). As the Director of Mid-Atlantic Professional Services, I will oversee and ensure world-class delivery for Ektron customers around the country, provide sales support and help companies to optimize their web sites using Ektron's cutting edge technologies.