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Akili Hires Calhoun as Business Development Executive
August 16, 2011
Akili, one of the fastest growing consulting firms in the enterprise performance management, business intelligence, and mobility software segments, today announced the appointment of Bill Calhoun as business development executive. With more than 20 years of experience in executive-level solution selling, Mr. Calhoun is ideally suited to build on Akili’s reputation for client-focused information management solutions that support the adaptive enterprise.
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Akili, one of the fastest growing consulting firms in the enterprise performance management, business intelligence, and mobility software segments, today announced the appointment of Bill Calhoun as business development executive. With more than 20 years of experience in executive-level solution selling, Mr. Calhoun is ideally suited to build on Akili’s reputation for client-focused information management solutions that support the adaptive enterprise.
“Bill comes to Akili with a tremendous record of business development success for major companies including IBM and Accenture,” said Shiek Shah, chief executive officer of Akili. “He has consistently exceeded multi-million dollar annual quotas as a top performing sales executive and manager. Bill brings invaluable sales engagement experience to Akili.”
Prior to joining Akili, Mr. Calhoun held the roles of senior account executive and regional sales manager for IBM, Accenture, Microsoft, and KPMG among others. His client experience includes closing large scale service implementations with companies including Motorola, GE Healthcare, GE Aerospace, Emerson, Rockwell Automation, Rockwell Collins, Brunswick/Mercury Marine, Caterpillar, Deere, Navistar, Trane, NiSource, and Exelon.
Mr. Calhoun received an MBA from the University of South Dakota and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University. In addition, he has received professional sales certifications and further business sales training from IBM, KPMG, Holden, and Microsoft.
Mr. Calhoun can be reached at bcalhoun@akili.com or 708.633.0993.
About Akili
Akili (pronounced (uh • kē’ • lē) meaning “knowledge” in Swahili) is an IT services firm specializing in the support of SAP BusinessObjects solutions, including SAP BusinessObjects enterprise performance management (EPM), business intelligence (BI), enterprise information management (EIM) solutions, and Mobility solutions. Akili is a Sybase partner, an SAP BusinessObjects™ partner, a channel partner, and SAP services partner in the SAP PartnerEdge™ program.
Akili, headquartered in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas, has a 19-year track record of successful implementations for small regional companies, midsize national companies, and multi-national Fortune 5 companies in various industries, including Manufacturing, Healthcare, Financial Services, Hospitality and Entertainment, Energy, Construction and Telecom.
For more information on Akili’s solutions and services, please visit www.akili.com or contact Bill Calhoun, business development executive, at 708.633.0993 or bcalhoun@akili.com.