
11 July 2007, 2:08pm
ACTIVE (totalsolutionmapping.com), the geographic and demographic information specialist, has appointed Paul Champion to the post of Commercial Director, Martyn Woodbridge as Business Development Manager and Lyndsey Wood as Consultant.
Paul joins from the Web Technology Group, within Cable & Wireless, where he was the Head of Consultancy, leading teams to support business development and project activities. Paul brings to ACTIVE over 20 years experience in business development, consultancy, software project management and he has extensive experience across the transport, central government and criminal justice sectors. Prior to his role at Cable & Wireless, Paul was the Strategic Integration and R&D Manager at Scoot Technology and was a Principal Consultant at Oracle Corporation, where he managed a 50-man team developing solutions for the e-commerce and interactive TV markets.
Martyn joins ACTIVE as a Business Development Manager with 12 years experience across the housing, health and education markets. Martyn will lead ACTIVE’s sales activity to extend its UK and European client base and will be the 'voice of the customer' for the development of our new product and service offerings.
Lyndsey joins our consultancy team with valuable demographic mapping experience gained from within the NHS Trust and Direct Marketing sectors and has an MA Geographical Information Science with Business and Service Planning.
Paul Smith, ACTIVE’s Managing Director comments, “The appointment of Paul, Martyn and Lyndsey builds on ACTIVE's reputation as a leading provider of services in the geographic and demographic information sector. They join us at an exciting time with the launch of new products for 2007 and will complement our talented and experienced teams. We look forward to building these teams even further in the years ahead as we extend our services to new and existing markets.”

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