PLEX SIGNS STRATEGY VP
Manufacturing software vendor Plex Systems has named Jim Shepherd as VP of strategy. Shepherd was previously a VP and analyst who joined Gartner in 2009 after that research house’s purchase of AMR Research. At both, he analyzed ERP systems, supply chain management and the convergence of business strategy and enterprise applications.
His job at the Auburn Hills, Mich.-based publisher of Plex Online is to define strategic direction. Shepherd’s career illustrates a point often made by Garrison Keillor on “Prairie Home Companion”: there is a future for English majors, in Shepherd’s case, English literature.
