Werum America strengthens its management team with first class external sales expertise
Shawn Opatka appointed as Vice President Sales & Marketing at Werum IT Solutions America
Lüneburg, Germany / Parsippany, NJ, USA, June 21, 2016 – Werum IT Solutions has appointed Shawn Opatka as Vice President Sales & Marketing of its American operation, Werum IT Solutions America. In this role, Mr. Opatka will direct Werum America’s team of sales and marketing managers, working to ensure that Werum’s best-in-class MES solutions deliver unrivaled customer satisfaction. He succeeds Jan-Henrik Dieckert, who is moving to Werum’s global headquarters in Lüneburg, Germany, where he will assume the new role of Senior Head of Sales EMEA.
Mr. Opatka is an accomplished, results-driven sales professional with more than 15 years of sales experience in the IT sector of the life science and process industries. He has deep experience in sales and sales management, territory management, sales engineering, marketing, product development and sales support. In addition, he is an exceptional communicator with demonstrated success in building relationships at every level.
Before joining Werum, Mr. Opatka worked for more than eight years in various management positions at Emerson Process Management in the USA – most recently as Global Sales Director MES. In this role, he was responsible for global sales and marketing of Emerson Process Management’s life science solutions, including the Syncade product platform.
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Shawn Opatka, Vice President Sales & Marketing, Werum IT Solutions America
About Werum IT Solutions
Werum IT Solutions is the world’s leading supplier of manufacturing execution systems (MES) and manufacturing IT solutions for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. Its out-of-the-box PAS-X software product is run by the majority of the world’s top 30 pharmaceutical and biotech companies but also by many mid-sized manufacturers. Werum’s manufacturing IT solutions help pharma manufacturers to increase efficiency, improve productivity, and meet regulatory requirements. Founded in 1969, Werum is headquartered in Lüneburg, Germany, and has many locations in Europe, America, and Asia.
www.werum.com
Werum is part of Medipak Systems, the Pharma Systems business area of the international technology group Körber. The Business Areas five companies, Dividella, Mediseal, Rondo, Seidenader Maschinenbau and Werum IT Solutions, are global leading providers of high-quality solutions for the manufacturing and packaging process of pharmaceutical products. As a Medipak Systems company, Werum provides integrated IT solutions for all phases of pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical production – including process development, commercial production, and packaging as well as track & trace serialization. Körber unites around 11,500 professionals in industry-leading companies worldwide, achieving annual earnings of 2.3 billion Euros.
www.medipak-systems.com, www.koerber.de/en
Contact:
Dirk Ebbecke
Director Corporate Communications
Werum IT Solutions GmbH
Wulf-Werum-Str. 3
21337 Lüneburg, Germany
Tel. +49 4131 8900-689
Fax +49 4131 8900-20
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