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PeopleSoft Strengthens Asia Pacific Marketing

Announcement posted by PeopleSoft 04 May 2001

PeopleSoft today announced the appointment of Ray Kloss to the role of Regional Product Marketing Manager for Customer and Supplier Solutions.

Based in Sydney, Mr Kloss is responsible for driving all product marketing initiatives for PeopleSoft's eBusiness solutions in the Asia Pacific market including CRM, Financials, Supply Chain, Market Place, eProcurement and Analytics. As part of his responsibilities, Mr Kloss will serve as the PeopleSoft lead for feeding unique Asia/Pacific market requirements back into PeopleSoft's significant investment in localised eBusiness solutions for the region.

Mr Kloss will also be leveraging his industry experience in major business investment projects while working extensively with PeopleSoft's customers across the region to maximise their return from their eBusiness projects based on PeopleSoft's solutions.

Speaking on his appointment Mr Kloss commented, "I am extremely excited by this opportunity and I am looking forward to working with the team and our customers to ensure the success of PeopleSoft's eBusiness in the Asia Pacific Market place."

Mr Kloss joins PeopleSoft following over five years with Hewlett-Packard, where he held a number of senior management positions including most recently Regional Sales and Marketing Manager for HP's E-Solutions Division for Asia, Australia and New Zealand. In this role, Mr Kloss developed the product portfolio for the region and was responsible for building the sales organisation across Asia Pacific, in addition to coordinating all off shore development centre requirements in India, North America and Europe for delivery of solutions.

Prior to HP, Mr Kloss held numerous development, marketing and sales management positions with leading organisations including Lend Lease Employer Systems, Bridge Oil, MLC, IBM US and General Motors.

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PeopleSoft began operations in Asia Pacific in 1993 and now has offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide, Auckland, Wellington, Singapore, Hong Kong and Malaysia. Its customers include AAP, AMP, Alcoa, Australian National University, Australian Stock Exchange, Bangkok General Hospital, Coles Myer, Department of Defence, Eastern Energy, Ford, Foxtel, Government of Singapore Investments Corporation, HSBC Holdings, John Fairfax Holdings, Mass Transit Railway Corporation (MTRC) Hong Kong, National Mutual Health Insurance, NZ Police, NZ Post, UNITEC, Reserve Bank of Australia, Reding Paper Products, Transfield Pty Ltd,
University of NSW, WA Department of Education and WA Petroleum, Hewlett-Packard, Citibank, AMD, DBS Bank, PSA Corporation, Singapore Ministry of Finance, Morrison Express, Singtel, Starhub, Tenaga Nasional, Telekom Malaysia and Swire Properties.

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