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Sales Leader Evan Marks Joins Akken as Director of Sales

  
  
  
  
  
  

Akken (www.akken.com), provider of the first All-in-One, on demand staffing and recruiting software welcomes successful technology sales veteran Evan Marks as Director of Sales

Nashua, NH – June 4, 2009 - Akken (www.akken.com), provider of the first All-in-One, on demand staffing and recruiting software, today welcomes software sales and Solution Selling™ consultant Evan Marks as Director of Sales. Marks will lead the expansion of Akken’s flagship offering, Akken Staffing™, effectively growing the client base while delivering the highest levels of customer satisfaction.

"We are very fortunate Evan has decided to join our team" said Giridhar Akkineni, founder and CEO of Akken. "With his sales leadership expertise, particularly in the area of consultative sales methodologies, we are confident Evan is right person to help us reach our growth goals while helping our clients be more effective and profitable."

Marks brings more than 23 years of technical sales and marketing expertise to Akken. Most recently with EM Consulting Solutions and Services, a sales and marketing consulting company, Marks founded to train, motivate and rapidly improve sales effectiveness of technology sales teams. Marks continually exceeded his clients' expectations, reducing their sales cycles by 30% and increasing their revenue more than 40%. Prior to EM Consulting, Marks held numerous leadership positions in high growth technology and software companies such as Accel Technologies, where he led the sales team and grew revenues from $3 million to $18 million in under 2 years. Marks is a recognized Solution Selling consultant and has successfully implemented the Solution Selling process in more than 20 organizations.

“I am excited to join the team at Akken at this important time in our history" said Evan Marks. "Akken's fast growth and countless customer success stories over the past 2 years demonstrate a strong demand for an integrated software platform to operate a staffing company. I am looking forward to helping staffing and recruiting firms be more productive in today's challenging economy."

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About Akken

Akken is the staffing efficiency improvement specialist that helps staffing and recruiting companies to increase their revenue, decrease costs and manage their risk. Thousands of staffing and recruiting companies are struggling to manage several point solutions to run their business and suffering by losing valuable time and resources by using these point solutions. Akken’s vision is to provide its cloud-based all-in-one platform to these companies to centralize their information, improve performance and profitability by automating their “fill-to-bill” process. Hundreds of staffing and recruitment firms are successfully running their businesses on the Akken Staffing™ platform. For more information please visit www.akken.com  or call 1-866-590-6695. Join us on LinkedIn.

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