Reston, VA – January 22, 2008
– CorasWorks Corporation, the
leading worldwide provider of workplace application software on the
Microsoft® SharePoint® platform, today announced that Gary Voight has
been named chief executive officer effective January 1, 2008. Mr. Voight
succeeds CorasWorks co–founder William Rogers, who will now serve as chief
workplace architect, responsible for advancing the integrated virtual
workplace within CorasWorks' customer and partner base, as well as the
broader business and IT communities.
CorasWorks software products provide the fastest, lowest cost, and most
maintainable approach to a continuously evolving collaborative workplace.
CorasWorks currently has more than 1,000 customers and more than one
million deployed end–users in a wide range of industries and market
segments. Customers typically use CorasWorks products to build web-based
solutions to manage projects and document, automate business processes, and
deploy intranets, extranets, dashboards, and other business solutions.
“CorasWorks co–founder William Rogers has helped build CorasWorks into
a market-maker that is poised for explosive growth. CorasWorks is on the
forefront of the rapid SharePoint® market expansion, and I am looking
forward to leading the company as we capitalize on the company's success to
date,” said Gary Voight, CEO of CorasWorks.
“CorasWorks built its base in the SharePoint market. Our new product
introductions now enable customers to integrate non–SharePoint and non–Microsoft applications, platforms, and data sources into their workplace.
Gary’s extensive enterprise software background on multiple platforms is a
key piece to the future of CorasWorks and our vision of the enterprise
workplace,” said William Rogers, founder and chief workplace architect of
CorasWorks.
“Gary’s breadth of experience makes him the natural choice for leading
CorasWorks into the next phase of its growth cycle,” said Jack Biddle,
CorasWorks Corporation board chairman and general partner, Novak Biddle
Venture Partners. “His skill set complements the talents of the existing
management team and he has deep experience with achieving the goals we seek
to accomplish. His understanding of both large and small companies gives
him a complete perspective for developing the right strategies to take
CorasWorks to the next level,” Biddle added.
Mr. Voight has more than thirty years’ experience leading large
corporations and industry changing startups. Most recently, he was
president and CEO at Archivas, Inc., a digital preservation software firm,
that was acquired by Hitachi in February 2007. Under his direction,
Archivas developed digital archiving software, and sold it to financial
services, medical, government, services and educational enterprises. Prior
to joining Archivas, Mr. Voight was president and CEO of Software AG
(Americas), where he grew the business to more than $200 million in
revenue. He was senior vice president of Sales, Marketing and Services of
SAGA Software at the time of its acquisition by Software AG. Previously, he
was vice president of Worldwide Transactions Systems at IBM/Transarc –
where he was responsible for most of IBM's application server, middleware,
security and file systems products. Mr. Voight received his Bachelor’s
degree in Business Administration from the University of Michigan.
With over 1,000 customers and more than 1 million users worldwide, CorasWorks is a leading provider of modular application development software for Microsoft SharePoint. Customers use our products to build web–based solutions such as project– and process–oriented solutions and line of business applications. Our modular architecture makes it easy to design, build, and manage an integrated workplace of collaborative business applications, without the time and expense of custom development.