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Akili Hires Naramore as VP of Marketing

6/14/2010 12:17:25 PM

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DALLAS, Texas (June 14, 2010) --

Akili, ranked 23rd among the 100 fastest growing, privately held companies in the Dallas area, announced today the appointment of Rebekah Naramore as vice president of marketing. With close to 10 years of corporate communications and public relations experience in the business-to-business marketplace, Ms. Naramore is well-suited to position Akili as the ideal system integration firm for client-focused enterprise performance management and business intelligence solutions that support the adaptive enterprise.

“Rebekah is a skilled communicator and resourceful problem-solver,” said Shiek Shah, chief executive officer of Akili. “She has the ability to quickly asses a situation and formulate practical solutions that support our corporate goals.  Rebekah brings a wealth of marketing experience to Akili.”

Prior to joining Akili, Ms. Naramore held the roles of communications project manager and team leader at Colemont Brokerage Group and director of marketing at the Chamber of Commerce in Watertown, New York. In each of these positions she directly impacted sales and business development by clearly communicating organizational expertise and building brand integrity.

Ms. Naramore received a B.S. in Public Relations from John Brown University, where her study concentrations were in journalism and graphic design.

Ms. Naramore can be reached at rnaramore@akili.com or 214.978.3205.

About Akili
Akili (pronounced (uh • kē’ • lē) meaning “knowledge” in Swahili) is an enterprise performance management and business intelligence consulting firm founded in 1992 and headquartered in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas.  Akili provides solutions that support the adaptive enterprise, enabling real time planning, forecasting, and budgeting systems that are powerful, intuitive and capable of seamlessly merging all dimensions of a large scale business enterprise.

Akili’s nearly 20 years of successful service to Fortune 1000 companies speaks to their expertise, client-focus, and results-oriented standards of excellence.

Whether the need relates to business intelligence, performance management, or budgeting and forecasting, Akili’s core belief is that information becomes actionable only when presented in its proper context. Akili helps leading organizations move rapidly toward a model where planning is continuous and where the focus is on agility and adaptability.  

Akili is an SAP BusinessObjects partner and SAP services partner, working with SAP since 2008. Their shared goals center on implementing world class planning and performance management solutions for their clients from within the SAP BusinessObjects solution portfolio.  

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For more information on Akili’s solutions and services, please visit www.akili.com or contact Laura Claborn, sales executive, at 214.978.3202 or lclaborn@akili.com.