Stefan B. Schulz Joins PROS Team
HOUSTON, Jan. 16, 2015 – PROS® (NYSE: PRO), a big data software company, today announced Stefan B. Schulz will join the company as its new Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Schulz is expected to begin in his new role on or before March 16, 2015. He replaces Charles H. Murphy, who, as previously announced in February 2014, is retiring from PROS after 16 years with the company. Schulz will be responsible for PROS finance, accounting, corporate development, information technology and legal teams globally. He will report to PROS President and Chief Executive Officer Andres Reiner.
“Stefan Schulz is a great leader with an extraordinary reputation and background, who brings extensive experience in public software companies,” said Reiner. “As we continue to scale our business, Stefan’s experience in building global finance organizations and managing global growth initiatives will be instrumental to our long-term strategy. He is a great fit for PROS, and we’re excited to welcome him to our company.
“On behalf of PROS Board of Directors and our entire PROS team, I want to thank Charlie for his contributions and dedication over the past 16 years,” Reiner continued. “Charlie embodies PROS values and culture of integrity, pride, and commitment to customer and employee success. It has been my privilege to work side-by-side with him for many years, and we appreciate his willingness to continue to work as an advisor over the next year to ensure a seamless transition.”
“PROS has earned its reputation as an organization committed to customer success by helping companies outperform with innovative big data applications,” said Schulz. “I’m impressed with PROS track record of strong financial performance, the depth of its team, and its vision for growth. I Iook forward to helping drive even greater value for shareholders, customers, partners and employees.”
About Stefan Schulz
Schulz brings to PROS more than 20 years of financial and operations experience where he has built internal capacity to support high-growth, and has led the evaluation and integration of multiple acquisitions. For the past three years, he has served as Chief Financial Officer at Digital River, Inc., a global provider of commerce-as-a-service solutions, headquartered in Minneapolis. In this role, Schulz was charged with building the company’s full-service merchant-of-record and seller-of-record offering, and overseeing the company’s internal transformation to greater efficiency and scale.
Zuvor war er sechs Jahre bei Lawson Software, einem Unternehmen für Enterprise Resource Planning Software, tätig. Als Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer und Chief Accounting Officer leitete Schulz die Übernahme und Integration von zwei Unternehmen in strategischen Wachstumsmärkten der Branche.
Schulz war 12 Jahre lang bei BMC Software tätig, wo er in einer Phase starken Wachstums verschiedene Führungspositionen innehatte, zuletzt als Vice President, Global Revenue Operations. Schulz begann seine Karriere bei Arthur Andersen & Co.
Er erwarb einen B.B.A.-Abschluss in Rechnungswesen an der Lamar University.
Über PROS
PROS Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PRO) ist ein Big-Data-Softwareunternehmen, das Kunden hilft, in ihren Märkten besser abzuschneiden, indem es Big Data nutzt, um effektiver zu verkaufen. Wir setzen fast 30 Jahre Erfahrung in der Datenwissenschaft ein, um Kaufmuster und Präferenzen innerhalb von Transaktionsdaten zu entschlüsseln und herauszufinden, welche Gelegenheiten am wahrscheinlichsten zum Abschluss kommen, welche Angebote am wahrscheinlichsten verkauft werden und welche Preise am wahrscheinlichsten gewinnen. PROS bietet Big-Data-Lösungen zur Optimierung von Vertrieb, Preisgestaltung, Angebotserstellung, Rabatten und Umsatzmanagement in mehr als 40 Branchen. PROS hat bereits über 700 Implementierungen seiner Lösungen in mehr als 55 Ländern abgeschlossen. Das PROS-Team besteht aus rund 1.000 Fachleuten auf der ganzen Welt. Um mehr zu erfahren, besuchen Sie www.pros.com.
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