SAN DIEGO, Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Accelrys, Inc.
(NASDAQ: ACCL), a leading provider of scientific innovation
lifecycle management software, today announced that it has
appointed former Siemens executive Leif
Pedersen as its senior vice president of marketing, product
management and corporate development. Pedersen joins Accelrys as
the company expands its breadth of scientific innovation lifecycle
software into multiple vertical market segments and strengthens its
offerings across the entire value chain of product development.
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As a seasoned software industry executive, Pedersen brings more
than 25 years of product and marketing experience, as well as a
track record of building high-performance teams, to Accelrys. Most
recently, Pedersen served as vice president of Siemens with global
responsibility for multiple vertical markets, including automotive,
pharmaceutical, aerospace, consumer packaged goods, food and
beverage, and chemicals industries. Prior to Siemens' acquisition
of UGS, Pedersen was vice president at UGS, where he managed the
company's short- and long-term overall business strategy for eight
major vertical industries. He was part of a team that successfully
grew UGS into a leading global product lifecycle management (PLM)
software solutions company.
"Leif's unique blend of managing product strategy through the
growth curve with organizations ranging from mid-tier to large
enterprise will be invaluable to Accelrys as we continue to expand
our business into key verticals and downstream manufacturing," said
Accelrys President and Chief Executive Officer CEO Max Carnecchia. "He is the right leader, with
the right skillset, at the right time for Accelrys and we're
excited to welcome him to our leadership team."
Prior to UGS, Pedersen, a native of Denmark, held executive leadership positions
with Vignette Corp., Novell Inc., Computer Associates, and Oracle
Corporation.
"I am pleased to be joining Accelrys and look forward to working
with the team as we continue to gain momentum around our
initiatives to move downstream with new solutions that optimize the
lab-to-commercialization process across industries," Pedersen
said.
About Accelrys, Inc.
Accelrys (NASDAQ:ACCL), a leading provider of scientific
innovation lifecycle management software, supports industries and
organizations that rely on scientific innovation to differentiate
themselves. The industry-leading Accelrys Enterprise Platform
provides a broad, flexible scientific solution optimized to
integrate the diversity of science, experimental processes and
information requirements across the research, development, process
scale-up and early manufacturing phases of product development. By
incorporating capabilities in applications for modeling and
simulation, enterprise lab management, workflow and automation, and
data management and informatics, Accelrys enables scientific
innovators to access, organize, analyze and share data in
unprecedented ways, ultimately enhancing innovation, improving
productivity and compliance, reducing costs and speeding time from
lab to market.
Accelrys solutions are used by more than 1,300 customers in the
pharmaceutical, biotechnology, energy, chemicals, aerospace,
consumer packaged goods and industrial products industries.
Headquartered in San Diego,
Calif., Accelrys employs more than 200 full-time PhD
scientists. For more information about Accelrys, visit
www.accelrys.com.
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