AUSTIN, Texas – June 29, 2010 – Dachis Group today announced that it has expanded its management team to include Erik Huddleston as the firm’s Chief Technology Officer. Huddleston joins Dachis Group from his role as CTO of Inovis following Inovis’ merger with GXS Corp. Huddleston brings more than 15 years of product management, product development, and architecture experience in large scale companies and high growth startups.
“As businesses move to operationalize their Social Business efforts, they will increasingly need to aggregate and integrate disparate social and enterprise activity and make sense of it all.” said Jeff Dachis, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dachis Group. “We are privileged to have someone with Erik’s unique experience and qualifications helping to develop solutions for our clients.”
“During our pioneering work on social supply chain and our analysis of billions of business interactions a year, I saw the opportunity at the intersection of Big Data, Cloud, and Social. Dachis Group was already at the epicenter of this,” said Huddleston. “In working with data from over fifteen thousand customers at Inovis, it became clear that we were quickly reaching a tipping point of adoption where all businesses are becoming Social Businesses.”
Prior to joining Dachis Group, Huddleston was Chief Technology Officer of Inovis, the premier provider of cloud integration, analytics, and social supply chain solutions. Before this, he was Chief Technology Officer for BetweenMarkets, Inc., a venture-backed SaaS community management and partner performance management company acquired by Inovis in 2007.
Prior to BetweenMarkets, Huddlestion held a variety of technology leadership positions at eCustomers and SMART Technology, acquired by i2.
“Erik brings a powerful and diverse blend of technology executive experience. He’s managed large teams of developers supporting thousands of customers and complex products. Importantly, Erik has also served as a company founder successfully creating a de novo product offering for a new market,” said Chris Pacitti, a general partner with Austin Ventures. “His deep knowledge of distributed data networks and analytics will help Dachis Group advance the value its customers derive from Social Business. We are thrilled to have Erik back in our portfolio.”
About Erik Huddleston
Erik is a visionary product and development executive with over 15 years experience bringing new and innovative products to market in large multinational companies and high growth startups. Most recently as Chief Technology Officer for Inovis, Erik Huddleston drove the vision, development and evangelism for Inovis, a cloud integration, analytics and social supply chain company. Erik has a strong track record of visionary technology leadership in Supply Chain, CRM, and multi enterprise collaboration.
Erik came to Inovis from the acquisition of BetweenMarkets, the leading provider of partner performance management applications, where he served as Founder and CTO. While at BetweenMarkets, Erik drove an agile product and development organization and helped dozens of the worlds leading organizations solve the Business Community Management challenges. Prior to founding BetweenMarkets in 2000, Erik architected consumer and retail analytics products at two enterprise software startups: eCustomers, a retail merchandising software provider; and SMART Technologies, a supply chain software provider acquired by i2 Technologies.
Erik has a degree from the Plan II Honors Program at the University of Texas.
About Dachis Group
Dachis Group has developed a framework for Social Business Design by addressing organizational change across business systems, process, and culture.
Dachis Group provides professional management consulting and advisory services, process design, program management, information design, marketing, change communication, and technical implementation services across three main practice areas: Customer Participation and Engagement, Workforce Collaboration, and Business Partner Optimization.
Dachis Group serves global companies including: AT&T, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Citibank, The Coca-Cola Company, DeVry, Estee Lauder, HP, Procter & Gamble, UNICEF, and Yum! Brands.
Dachis Group (Dachis Corporation, Inc.) was created to unlock the value of social technologies for large corporate enterprises. Founded in 2008, by Jeffrey Dachis, Dachis Group services companies all around the globe with offices in seven cities in five countries. Dachis Group is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices in Portland, Oregon, St. Louis, Missouri, London, England, Sydney, Australia, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Madrid, Spain. Dachis Group operates as Dachis Group, Headshift, part of the Dachis Group, The 2.0 Adoption Council, part of the Dachis Group and XPLANE, part of the Dachis Group.
The company’s strategy is backed by a commitment from Austin Ventures to build and grow organically and through acquisitions.
If you are interested in finding out how Dachis Group can help your business, contact: inquiries@dachisgroup.com.
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