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COMPUTERWORLD RECOGNIZES
eROOM TECHNOLOGY'S CHIEF TECHNICAL
OFFICER, PITO SALAS, AS ONE OF BUSINESS' PREMIER 100
IT LEADERS
Fosters Highly Innovative
Work Environment that Rewards Employees
and Delivers New and Creative Solutions to Business
Challenges
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 28, 2001 -
eRoom Technology, Inc., a leading provider of digital
workplaces for professional services organizations and
manufacturing companies, announced today that its chief
technical officer, Pito Salas, has been recognized by
IDG’s Computerworld, the newspaper for IT
leaders, as one of the business world’s Premier 100
Information Technology (IT) Leaders. Published in March,
the newspaper’s Premier 100 issue highlights IT professionals
who have a positive impact on their organization through
the effective use of technology to foster business innovation
and problem solving. As a co-founder and key member of
the eRoom Technology senior management team, Salas’
technology vision and management style has helped the
company grow from start-up to a digital workplace powerhouse
serving Global 1000 companies around the world. More information
about the Computerworld Premier 100 IT Leaders
special issue can be found at www.computerworld.com/premier100.
“Computerworld honors the Premier 100 as the
finest leaders in information technology today,”
said Maryfran Johnson, editor-in-chief, Computerworld.
“These outstanding practitioners of leading-edge
IT are honored for the strategic use of best practices
and the ability to leverage technology to resolve business
challenges.”
As chief technical officer and co-founder
of eRoom Technology, Salas’ impact on the company
spans both the IT and management arenas. As chief technical
officer, he has been instrumental in assembling and
leading the teams of people chartered with designing
and developing the company’s products and services.
As co-founder, he has also significantly impacted the
overall culture and management style that has evolved
at the company. From product schedules to employee policies
and workplace issues, Salas’ management approach
speaks to years of experience leading high-performance
teams that are motivated by good leadership and repeated
project success.
“Successful leaders bring a unique combination
of strength, diversity of opinion, and open mindsets
to the challenge of managing large groups of extremely
talented people,” said Jeffrey Beir, president
and chief executive officer for eRoom Technology. “Pito
is a remarkable person who motivates by example and
experience. His successes are reflected in the high-quality
products we are able to deliver to our customers and
the morale of company employees.”
The Premier 100 IT Leaders list is published annually
by Computerworld and reflects the publication’s
focus on the people, products, and services that drive
the IT market forward. The editorial research staff
at Computerworld uses a combination of interviews,
personal experience, and the Computerworld IT Leader
Index, to evaluate and rank candidates for the Premier
100 list. The Computerworld IT Leader Index is
a measurement of how closely an individual matches the
range of attributes typically associated with successful
IT leaders.
About eRoom Technology
eRoom Technology is a leading provider of Internet-based
software and services for collaboration among an organization’s
extended enterprise of employees, customers, suppliers,
and other partners. The company’s eRoom® product
provides a digital workplace for the extended enterprise,
allowing organizations to quickly assemble a project
team wherever people are located and manage the collaborative
activities that support their complex and rapidly-changing
business projects and processes. Customers use eRoom
digital workplaces to help get products to market faster,
drive down production costs, enhance customer relationships,
and improve the work products that drive their businesses.
The eRoom solution is used by more than 475 companies
such as A.T. Kearney, Bausch & Lomb, Compaq, Deloitte
Consulting, EDS, Ford Motor Company, Hewlett-Packard,
Ketchum, KPMG, Pfizer, Siemens, Solectron, Towers Perrin,
and Verizon. More information about eRoom Technology
and its product offerings can be found at www.eroom.com.
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