MORRISVILLE, N.C., Aug 25, 2015 (BUSINESS WIRE) —
SciQuest,
Inc.
SQI, -1.96%
a leading provider of cloud-based business
automation solutions for spend management, today announced Karen Sage,
chief marketing officer, has been named president of the new
Raleigh/Durham chapter of The
CMO Club. In this position, Sage will work closely with national
representatives from The CMO Club along with other top marketing
professionals from local businesses to launch and grow the local chapter.
The CMO Club is an exclusive professional global organization of over
800 CMOs that brings together top corporate marketing professionals from
all industries at a local and national level. Through the club’s digital
members only platform and CMO Club House, members are able to network
with other marketing professionals from around the world, reference CMO
curated educational materials on marketing trends and provide insights
about beneficial strategies or tactics. Through the local chapter,
members gather at monthly privatedinners to discuss the biggest
challenges they are currently facing, how they are addressing the
changing market, and new techniques for analyzing and quantifying the
results of marketing activities.
Sage, who was previously an active member of the CMO Club in Silicon
Valley, holds 20+ years of experience in business-to-business marketing
and communications. Prior to joining SciQuest in April, she served as
vice president of marketing for the business innovation group from CA
Technologies, a $4.5 billion security and technology management company.
Her experiences leading growth also include multiple leadership roles
during a 15-year stint at Cisco. Karen started her career having
invented the NETSYS Performance tools at NETSYS Technologies, Inc.,
which was acquired by Cisco in 1996.
“Raleigh/Durham is a well-established home for a unique mix of research,
technology and consumer brands,” said Sage. “Every company in this
region is not only producing great products, but also stellar marketing
too. By launching this new CMO Club chapter, leaders from different
industries can discuss trends, best practices and key learnings with
other marketers, which will only help every company build a strong
marketing department.”
The Raleigh/Durham chapter of the CMO Club will host its kick-off dinner
September 23rd. For more information on the
Raleigh/Durham chapter of The CMO Club and the September dinner event,
please contact Sage at karencmoclub@gmail.com.
To learn more about the CMO Club and request membership, please visit www.thecmoclub.com.
About The CMO Club
The CMO Club (TheCMOClub.com) is the world’s most engaged and inspired
community of Senior Marketing Executives who help each other solve their
biggest challenges, within a candid, trusted, and sharing environment.
Collaboration fueled by inspiring events and within the members-only
Digital Solutions Clubhouse raises the standard for what is required to
be a successful Chief Marketing Officer. With more than 800 members and
a no vendor selling policy, The CMO Club is the go-to center for today’s
Senior Marketer for peer-based personal and career success support. For
more details on membership or becoming a thought leadership partner,
please visit www.thecmoclub.com
or call 323-388-8204.
About SciQuest
SciQuest
SQI, -1.96%
spend management solutions enable procurement,
sourcing and financial professionals to focus on strategic decisions
that transform business processes. Our feature-rich products and expert
services help hundreds of organizations, including leading global
companies, drive bottom line results by improving, automating and
optimizing their source-to-settle processes.
Learn more about our solutions and how we can help your organization
turn spending into savings at http://www.sciquest.com.
To join the conversation, please visit our blog at http://www.sciquest.com/blog
or follow us on Twitter @SciQuest.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Any statements in this release that are not historical or current facts
are forward-looking statements. All forward-looking statements in this
release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are not
guarantees of future performance and involve known and unknown risks,
uncertainties and other factors that may cause actual results,
performance or achievements to be materially different from any future
results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the
forward-looking statements. Certain of these risks are discussed in
“Part I, Item 1A, Risk Factors” and elsewhere in SciQuest’s most recent
Annual Report on Form 10-K and other reports, as filed with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”). The company’s SEC
reports are available free of charge on the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov
or on the company’s website at http://www.sciquest.com.
These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date hereof, and
SciQuest undertakes no obligation to update, amend or clarify any
forward-looking statement for any reason. Given these risks and
uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on
forward-looking statements as a prediction of actual results.
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SOURCE: SciQuest, Inc.
SciQuest Media contact:
SciQuest, Inc.
Roberta Patterson,
919-659-2230
rpatterson@sciquest.com
or
Edelman
for SciQuest, Inc.
Megan Smith, 404-832-6776
Megan.Smith3@edelman.com
or
SciQuest
Investor contact:
SciQuest, Inc.
Jamie Andelman, 919-659-2322
jandelman@sciquest.com
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