Vintara Announces Steve Anderson as the VP Sales and Marketing

OAKLAND, CA., September 12, 2005 – Vintara, the leading provider of fully automated, Web-based enterprise quality management solutions and services, announces that Steve Anderson has joined the organization as the VP Marketing and Sales, effective September 8, 2005.

Mr. Anderson was previously the Managing Partner of IT Directions, a business consulting practice providing services to U.S. and international eCommerce and B2B companies on business processes, sales and marketing strategies.  His background also includes executive sales and marketing positions with national enterprise software companies, including managing the corporate sales and M&A rollups of several successful startups.  He was President of VideoYellowPages.com, COO/VP Sales of Creative Computer Solutions, and CEO of Data Directions.  His Fortune 500 experience includes IS Director for Levi Strauss and Systems Engineer Manager for Electronic Data Systems.  Mr. Anderson earned his B.S. Cum Laude and his M.B.A. from the University of Florida.

Mr. Anderson stated, “Vintara’s technology enables companies to streamline the key business processes associated with quality and ensure that their commitment to deliver complete customer satisfaction is not compromised.  With the worldwide adoption of standards, Vintara’s industry solutions provide the ideal platform on which the global enterprises can manage key process improvements across their value chains.  This is achieved because our application provides complete visibility to all aspects of the management system enabling faster time-to-market and greatly reduced business risk.  Companies achieve significant cost reductions in managing their quality functions enterprise wide with the implementation of Vintara’s application.”

About Vintara

Vintara is the leading provider of Web-based enterprise process management solutions and services.  Founded in 1997, Vintara

 has a proven track record of helping the enterprise successfully prepare for and cost-effectively maintain compliance with a range

of domestic and internationally recognized standards.  Our customers come from a variety of industries, with a diverse range of needs.  In every case, Vintara has created solutions that meet

and exceed their growing business needs.

Combining innovative technology with training and consulting services, our brands – ISO9, ISO14, ISO17, OHS18, and 6Sigma – deliver the solutions that help the enterprise manage their key business processes setting the path to continual improvement.

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