Verity Appoints Jack E. Landers to Vice President of Human Resources
Experienced Executive Joins Company to Help Manage Growth
SUNNYVALE, Calif - 2004-05-04 - Verity Inc. (NASDAQ: VRTY), a leading provider of enterprise software that enables organizations to maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment, today announced the appointment of Jack E. Landers to vice president of human resources.
Landers will report to Steven R. Springsteel, senior vice president of finance and administration and chief financial officer. In his new position at Verity, Landers will oversee all human resources activities, including benefits, compensation, employee communications, coaching, recruitment, development and retention. In addition, as the company continues on its strategic growth path, evidenced by its recent acquisitions of Cardiff Software and NativeMinds, Landers will apply his skills to integration strategies, succession planning, compensation and retention.
"Jack's arrival signals an important stage in Verity's growth as a company which now has more than 500 employees around the globe," said Anthony J. Bettencourt, Verity's president and CEO. "Organizational complexity comes with growth and Verity is at a point where a highly skilled, experienced human resources executive of Jack's caliber is needed. His track record with growth-oriented technology companies will be well-applied at Verity."
Before joining Verity, Landers was vice president of human resources at Legato Systems Inc., where he was a member of the executive team that restored the company to profitability and revenue growth while managing all programs, policies and processes affecting the selection, development, retention and productivity of 1,500 employees worldwide. Prior to Legato, Landers was vice president of human resources for Pacific Gateway Exchange where he built a complete human resources function form inception to meet the needs of a fast growing telecommunications and Internet company that saw its headcount grow from 100 to 400 in 12 months.
Landers began in human resources as the western area human resources manager for Digital Equipment Corporation, now part of HP. From there he went to Bay Networks, now part of Nortel, as the HR manager for U.S. sales, marketing, and customer development functions. Before Legato, Landers served as Symantec's senior director of human resources services for the security and anti-virus software company's development groups, corporate staff and sales and support operations in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
"Verity's growth plans cannot be fully realized without a capable, motivated and focused team of employees that turn strategies into results," Landers said. "It is both a thrill and an honor to join the Verity team and contribute to its growth and reputation for operational excellence by adding to its human resources management capabilities."
Landers is a resident of Redwood City, Calif. He holds a bachelor of arts and a master of arts from Boston College.
About Verity
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Verity provides software that enables organizations to maximize the return on their intellectual capital investment. The company's intellectual capital management (ICM) solutions provide integrated search, classification, recommendation, monitoring and analytics across the real-time flow of enterprise information, along with question and answer interfaces for effective online self-service. Other Verity ICM solutions capture content and drive automated business processes. Verity technology also serves as a core component of more than 260 applications from leading independent software vendors.
Verity software solutions are used by more than 11,500 customers in the private and public sectors. Customers include American Express, AT&T, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Cap Gemini Ernst & Young, Cardinal Health, Cisco Systems, EMC Documentum, Dow Jones, Financial Times, Hewlett-Packard, Home Depot, Lotus, Kaiser Permanente, META Group, SAP, Siemens, the State of California, Stellent, Sybase, the U.S. Departments of Energy and Justice, and the U.S. Army.
For more information, contact Verity at info@verity.com or at World Wide Web site http://www.verity.com or call 408-541-1500.
Verity and the Verity logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Verity, Inc.
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