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EXACT CEO TO LEAVE IN AUGUST

Martijn Janmaat, CEO of Exact, the parent of the Macola line, has said he would not seek to extend his stay in the position past the one year that he said he would serve.  Janmaat, who was on the software vendor’s supervisory board, found himself thrust into the position in August 2010 after the job’s prior occupant, Raj Patel, left after five years. The best way to phrase it is that Janmaat set about cleaning up the mess that was left behind, which included an aging product line with no plans for moving some key applications forward and a company that was spread too thinly across the world.

Janmaat said that staying as CEO did not fit his personal objectives and that he wanted to give the company’s supervisory board enough time to find a replacement. Exact will holds its annual user conference, Exact Engage, on April 3 through 6 at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Fla. I would have to think that this change in management is not a very comforting message to deliver to users, given the problems Janmaat has outlined concerning loss of users because of the aging product line. The company has discussed how to re-invigorate products it has released in the United States, including Synergy and Globe, but no decisions have been announced. Janmaat implemented a plan to concentrate on five “headquarters-rich” countries -- Benelux, United Kingdom, Germany France and the United States.

 

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