Talend Creates Application Integration Division and Names Experienced Leadership Team

Scott Devens to Lead New Division and Pat Walsh to Head Application Integration Marketing

SURESNES, France and LOS ALTOS, Calif. - November 23, 2010 - Talend, the recognized market leader in open source data management software, today announced the creation of the application integration division and appointed Scott Devens as general manager and Pat Walsh as vice president of marketing of the new division.

Devens brings over 24 years of experience in the technology industry to this new role. Prior to joining Talend, he was vice president of worldwide sales and field operations for Progress Software, vice president and executive officer at IONA Technologies and held various senior management roles in sales and finance with EMC and Data General. He holds a bachelor of science in business administration from Bryant University and a master’s in business administration from Nichols College.

“With a rapidly growing community of users, a strong base of loyal customers and industry leading data management technology, Talend has established itself as a leader in open source software,” said Devens. “I am very excited for the opportunity to contribute to accelerating this growth and lead the company’s expansion into the application integration space.”

Pat Walsh has spent the last 20 years in the infrastructure software industry. Prior to joining Talend, he led product marketing for Progress Software, was vice president of marketing at IONA Technologies, and has held senior product marketing and product management roles at Solid and Hewlett Packard. Walsh holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering and economics and a master’s degree in engineering management from Dartmouth College.

“Talend is uniquely positioned to meet the growing demand for a unified open source platform that meets both data and application integration needs,” said Walsh. “By combining the leading products and solutions for data management and application integration, Talend now offers a comprehensive solution to meet any company’s integration needs.”

Devens and Walsh will be joined by Sopera’s former CEO and Co-Founder Harald Weimer and former CTO and Co-Founder Ricco Deutscher. Weimer will take on the new role of vice president of worldwide sales and Deutscher will become chief technology officer of the new division. 

“The recent acquisition of Sopera has put Talend in an ideal position, the de-facto leader in open source middleware,” said Bertrand Diard, CEO and co-founder of Talend. “Scott, Pat, Harald and Ricco bring strong operational, sales and technical background as well as in-depth knowledge and experience in the middleware market. Under their leadership, we are looking forward to a rapid and successful deployment of our new application integration solutions, reinforcing our position in the market.”

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