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Skinkers appoints former Siebel UK CEO to the board

Bob Mann joins the Skinkers team as non-executive director

Skinkers, the leading supplier of enterprise communication management platforms, today announced that Bob Mann has joined their board as a non-executive director.

Bob has spent over 25 years in the high tech industry. As European Managing Director he set up Siebel Systems in Europe and prior to that he was Vice President for Legent which had revenues of $175m and employed 500 people in Europe. For the last six years Bob has led a portfolio career with board positions of companies in the portfolios of, amongst others, Advent Ventures, Amadeus Capital, Alliance Trust and Scottish Equity Partners. He was one of the founders of Foundation Network where he is currently interim CEO. Foundation Network specialises in partner relationship management software. He is also Chairman of VeriSIM which provides application simulations solutions to the financial services industry. He sits on the technology advisory boards of Scottish Equity Partners, the venture capital firm, and First Capital, a technology corporate finance company.

"I am delighted to be joining Skinkers at this exciting time," said Bob.  “I'm looking forward to working with the Skinkers team as we build the enterprise communication management software market."

"I am very excited that Bob is joining Skinkers. His experience and knowledge of enterprise software is exactly what Skinkers needs. As we develop into new markets Bob will be helping us with strategy and managing growth.” commented David Long, CEO Skinkers.

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