expressor software Names Melinda Smith CFO

BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--expressor software, the leader in semantic data integration, today announced that Melinda Smith has joined the company as chief financial officer. Melinda brings extensive financial management, administration and strategic experience to expressor, which have contributed significantly to the growth of public and private companies. She will be responsible for leading expressor’s financial and administrative operations including financial reporting and control, investor relations, human resources and legal affairs. Ms. Smith will report to Bob Potter, expressor software’s CEO.

"Melinda is a proven executive leader with an impressive professional background and skill set," said Bob Potter. "Her experience in managing financial operations in high growth environments will be a tremendous asset as expressor leverages its semantic data integration leadership position to achieve its long-term growth and strategic objectives."

Ms. Smith has more than 18 years of experience in financial administration. Previously she served as director of finance at Aspen Technology (Nasdaq: AZPN), the leading provider of software and services to the processing industries. Melinda held several positions at Aspen Technology, most recently directing the company’s financial and billing operations managing over 30 employees. She also led the business process and controls group with oversight for process improvement and the Sarbanes Oxley program.

Prior to joining Aspen Technology, she was chief financial officer at edocs, a leading provider of self-service, online billing and payment solutions. edocs was named the fastest growing software company in New England with five year revenue growth of 977% and was sold to Siebel Systems, now part of Oracle, in 2005. Melinda led the financial initiatives related to edocs’ rapid growth and expansion into worldwide markets. Earlier in her career, she was VP of Finance at Gradient Technologies and before then worked in public accounting at Price Waterhouse in the high-technology practice group. Ms. Smith holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Michigan.

"expressor is redefining the data integration space with a compelling value proposition and go-to-market strategy," commented Ms. Smith. "I am excited to join an outstanding management team and look forward to helping grow the organization to realize its tremendous market potential."

For more information on expressor’s leadership team, visit www.expressor-software.com/about-us-leadership.htm.

About expressor software

expressor software tackles the complexity and cost of enterprise IT projects with data integration software that delivers breakthrough development productivity and data processing performance at a significant price/performance advantage. expressor’s patent-pending semantic data integration system has been designed from the ground up – based on common business terms – that enable collaborative, role-based team development, business rule reuse and end-to-end project lifecycle management.

expressor software was founded in 2003 by experienced data integration and data warehousing practitioners and executives. The company is headquartered in Burlington, MA, and is funded by Commonwealth Capital Ventures, Globespan Capital Partners and Sigma Partners. For more information, visit www.expressor-software.com.