Brings 25+ Years Executive Management Experience in Leadership Roles for McKinsey & Company, SAP, Oracle

SAUSALITO, CA—Sept. 9, 2011—HumanConcepts, developer of HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, has announced the appointment of Human Capital Management (HCM) industry veteran Nick Kemp as EMEA General Manager, leading all sales, marketing, finance, customer success and partner marketing for Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Working out of HumanConcepts’ UK-based EMEA headquarters, Kemp will report directly to HumanConcepts President Luis Rivera.
“Nick is a key addition to our executive team and an HCM heavy hitter,” said Rivera. “His track record as a results-driven managing director, deep e-business strategist and builder of high-performing direct and indirect sales teams speaks for itself. Nick’s leadership will allow us to accelerate our EMEA business, broaden our global reach and deepen our partnerships with leading industry players.”

Immediately prior to HumanConcepts, Kemp was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company (2008-2011), a global management consulting firm, and the SME EMEA general manager at SAP (2006-2008), where he helped build an entirely new organization to market the company’s SaaS ERP solutions—including go-to market strategies, marketplace branding, lead generation, and sales cycle processes.

“With his impressive credits rolling out SaaS solutions across EMEA,” Rivera said, “I expect Nick to supercharge our own marketing and sales efforts for HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, our new SaaS platform for managing organizational change, and to leverage the rapid growth opportunities in the region.”

“I’m thrilled to be joining HumanConcepts,” said Kemp. “HumanConcepts is recognized around the world as the leading provider of high-value organizational planning solutions that help enterprises visualize, plan, model and transition their workforces to an optimal state. The industry is in a dynamic phase of growth and innovation right now—especially in EMEA, where continual workforce reorganizations and transitions are becoming the norm.”

About HumanConcepts

HumanConcepts enables enterprises to better manage organizational change of all types, including growth, rightsizing and reorganization. Using solutions from HumanConcepts, customers can achieve organizational agility, more easily understand how they are organized, plan for the future, and transition the workforce to its optimal state.

Used by many of the world’s largest organizations, HumanConcepts solutions provide immediate return on investment by enabling companies to reorganize faster, manage financial targets, stay in compliance, and reduce both cost and risk. The company’s products are certified by leading ERP and talent vendors such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and Lawson. HumanConcepts is based in Sausalito, California, with offices in the United Kingdom, Germany and Singapore. For more information, visit http://www.humanconcepts.com.

Press contact:
HumanConcepts
Robyn Fernsworth
rfernsworth@kickstartconsulting.com
415-412-0300

Veteran Customer Relationship Expert, Strategist and Speaker Brings More Than 15 Years’ Management Experience in HCM Industry

SAUSALITO, CA—Aug. 25, 2011—HumanConcepts, developer of HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, has announced the appointment of Rana Hobbs as Director of Customer Success. Hobbs’ extensive customer relationship background includes more than 15 years of experience with prominent Human Capital Management (HCM) solution providers, including SuccessFactors, Infohrm and IDC.

Hobbs will report to HumanConcepts President Luis Rivera. She will oversee HumanConcepts’ Customer Account Management (CAM) group, working closely with Marketing, Sales and Engineering teams to ensure HumanConcepts customers “have the benefit of our entire suite of products and an unparalleled user experience,” says Rivera.

As Principal Consultant at SuccessFactors, a leading business execution software solutions provider, Hobbs served as an influential reporting, analytics and planning subject matter expert. She also represented the organization at industry conferences, speaking at HR.com, IHRIM and SHRM. As Senior Director of Services at Infohrm, a leading provider of workforce planning, reporting, and analytics, Hobbs led the North America services team, achieving unprecedented customer engagement and 95% annual customer renewal rates.

“My expertise is driving customer success by helping companies adopt the organizational planning best practices developed through many years of working closely with human resource and finance leaders,” Hobbs said. “That’s what makes HumanConcepts a perfect fit.  HumanConcepts is recognized worldwide as the leading provider of high-value organizational planning solutions that help enterprises to visualize, plan, model and transition their workforces to optimally align with ever-changing business objectives.”

“We expect our Customer Success team to be instrumental in introducing existing HumanConcepts customers to the HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, our new SaaS platform for managing organizational change,” said Rivera. “With her proven track record in customer engagement, I expect Rana and her team to enable our customers to fully leverage our solutions to solve their unique organizational challenges. That customer success will positively influence our own rapid growth as an organization.”

About HumanConcepts

HumanConcepts enables enterprises to better manage organizational change of all types, including growth, rightsizing and reorganization. Using solutions from HumanConcepts, customers can achieve organizational agility, more easily understand how they are organized, plan for the future, and transition the workforce to its optimal state.

Used by many of the world’s largest organizations, HumanConcepts solutions provide immediate return on investment by enabling companies to reorganize faster, manage financial targets, stay in compliance, and reduce both cost and risk.  The company’s products are certified by leading ERP and talent vendors such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and Lawson. HumanConcepts is based in Sausalito, California, with offices in the United Kingdom, Germany and Singapore. For more information, visit http://www.humanconcepts.com.

Press contact:
HumanConcepts
Robyn Fernsworth
rfernsworth@kickstartconsulting.com
415-412-0300

SAUSALITO, CA—Aug. 9, 2011—HumanConcepts, developer of HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, announced today that Luis Rivera has been appointed president, overseeing marketing, sales, business development and customer success for the company’s suite of organizational planning solutions.

Rivera brings 17 years of experience in global market expansion, business development, mergers and acquisitions, business re-engineering, finance and investor relations to HumanConcepts. Most recently CEO of online marketing services provider Lyris Inc., Rivera grew company revenues from $4 million to $45 million and was named as one of the 100 most influential leaders by B-to-B Magazine.

Rivera will report to HumanConcepts CEO Martin Sacks.

“Luis is a key addition to our executive team,” said Sacks, who founded HumanConcepts in 2000. “The timing is good. Business has been very robust. With our enhanced enterprise focus from the divestment of our SMB business, and the recent release of our HumanConcepts Organizational Planning Suite, the new SaaS platform for managing organizational change, we see revenue growth continuing to accelerate. With his impressive revenue generation background, I expect Luis to further ramp our sales and marketing organization, broaden our global reach and deepen our partnerships with leading industry players.”

Prior to Lyris, Luis oversaw global business development and sales at Turbolinux, where he led the launch of international subsidiaries in Argentina, Australia, Germany and the UK. Rivera also led international sales at IMSI, a publicly traded software publishing company, and business development at @Road, a mobile resource management solution provider.

“I’m thrilled to be joining HumanConcepts at this stage in its evolution,” said Rivera. “HumanConcepts is recognized around the world as the leading provider of high-value organizational change management solutions that help enterprises visualize, plan, model and transition their workforces to an optimal state. The industry is in a dynamic phase of growth and innovation right now, and I’m excited to help steer HumanConcepts through the promising opportunities ahead.”

About HumanConcepts

HumanConcepts enables enterprises to better manage organizational change of all types, including growth, rightsizing and reorganization. Using solutions from HumanConcepts, customers can achieve organizational agility, more easily understand how they are organized, plan for the future, and transition the workforce to its optimal state.

Used by many of the world’s largest organizations, HumanConcepts solutions provide immediate return on investment by enabling companies to reorganize faster, manage financial targets, stay in compliance, and reduce both cost and risk. The company’s products are certified by leading ERP and talent vendors such as Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft and Lawson. HumanConcepts is based in Sausalito, California, with offices in the United Kingdom, Germany and Singapore. For more information, visit http://www.humanconcepts.com.

Press contact:

HumanConcepts
Robyn Fernsworth
rfernsworth@kickstartconsulting.com
415-412-0300