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AVEVA's Executive Vice President of Business Strategy joins FIATECH Board of Directors
13 March 2008AVEVA (LSE:AVV), the leading provider of plant and marine design and engineering lifecycle solutions, is pleased to announce that Derek Middlemas, Executive VP for Business Strategy has been selected to join the FIATECH Board of Directors.
FIATECH provides global leadership in identifying and accelerating the development, demonstration and deployment of fully integrated and automated technologies to deliver the highest business value throughout the lifecycle of all types of capital projects.
Derek is a Chartered Engineer with a degree in Naval Architecture and a Masters in Project Management. He has over 25 years of experience in the design and construction of capital projects. Derek joined AVEVA in 2000 and has been involved in business development and AVEVA's overall product/business strategy with special emphasis on their approach to lifecycle data management.
Derek Middlemas commented:
"FIATECH is an important enabler for driving business improvement through integration and automation of engineering technology. It provides leadership and direction on what AVEVA, as part of the value chain, should and could be doing; and it also provides a mechanism for us to contribute to the debate as a true partner.
"In cooperation with Posc Caesar, FIATECH is driving forward the use of standards for data exchange and sharing, and is a powerful force for change across the entire value chain from Owners, EPCs, Suppliers, S/W and solution vendors. I feel privileged to be able to contribute at the board level, and would encourage all companies involved in the capital project business, and that value the use of engineering technology, to get involved at some level with FIATECH."
According to Rob Glasier, head of AVEVA Americas, "AVEVA Americas has been an active proponent and participant in the FIATECH organisation for many years. With the appointment of Derek, AVEVA's Executive VP for Business Strategy, we are demonstrating a firm commitment to promoting FIATECH's mission to our clients on a global level."
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About FIATECH
FIATECH's membership includes industry- leading companies and research institutions driving the use of technology to improve the bottom line of capital projects. Vigorous executive participation from member companies and institutions keep the bottom line focus front and center to create premium member value. FIATECH is a consortium first and foremost. Members work together on projects to accomplish goals that otherwise they might not achieve individually.
As a result of mapping of the end-to-end description of a capital project, FIATECH has developed valuable insights to sharpen focus on application of new technologies. http://www.fiatech.org/
About AVEVA Group plc
AVEVA Group plc is one of the world's foremost and fastest-growing lifecycle engineering IT solutions and services providers to the oil and gas, paper and pulp, power, chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries. Listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:AVV), the Group reported pre-tax profits for the year ended March 2007 of GBP 24.7 million on revenues of GBP 94.9 million. The Group has grown consistently since 1967 on the strength of pioneering engineering technology that protects the information assets of its customers from the volatile nature of the IT industry.
The Group's history of innovation spans five decades and has produced most of today's major engineering IT technologies. Serving over 1600 clients, AVEVA has a dominant position in many market sectors both on and offshore. In May 2004, the Group acquired Tribon Solutions AB, the market-leading shipbuilding solution company and now serves 85% of the world's top 20 shipbuilders.
The Group's clients include leading plant owner operators, shipbuilders and engineering contractors such as Aibel, Aker Kvaerner, ALSTOM Power, Andritz, Areva NP, BAE Systems, BASF, BP, CB&I, Chevron, China National Nuclear, China Power Engineering Consulting Group Co. (CPECC), CNOOC Offshore Oil Engineering, Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, ExxonMobil, Hyundai Heavy Industries, Jacobs, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Petrofac, Product Services Network (PSN), SBM, Shell, Sinopec Engineering, SNC-Lavalin, TKMS - ThyssenKrupp Marine System, Uhde, VT Shipbuilding, Wood Group (Alliance & Mustang) and Worley Parsons.
Headquartered in Cambridge, England, AVEVA Group plc and its operating subsidiaries currently employ more than 700 staff worldwide with offices in England, Australia, Canada, China, Dubai, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Norway, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sweden, South Korea and the USA. http://www.aveva.com//
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