Daily Herald | Posted: Monday, February 12, 2007 11:00 pm
People On the Move
SCO PR director resigns, joins Omniture -- Blake Stowell has resigned from his position as public relations director of the SCO Group to join Omniture Inc.
His new position as PR director of the Orem-based Web analytics firm began Monday.
Stowell, who has been with the Lindon software and mobile applications provider for five and a half years, is replaced by Ryan Stephenson. He is SCO's PR manager.
"It was a very difficult decision, but the role of PR for me at SCO has run its course. With the company's ongoing litigation, I was much more limited in what I could do from a PR standpoint," Stowell said.
"Frequently, when I have to make a statement to the media about developments with regard to the progress of our litigation or a certain direction the company was going, I couldn't for legal reasons."
SCO, best known for its ongoing multi-billion-dollar lawsuit alleging that IBM leaked proprietary Unix code into Linux, saw its revenues for the fourth-quarter ended Oct. 31 slide 14 percent, to $7.35 million, from $8.53 million a year ago.
Since last October, the company said it had cut its workforce by nearly 15 percent to 142 positions from 166. About 50 remain employed in Utah.
Stowell said he still remains very supportive of SCO, its management, and the lawsuits it filed to protect its intellectual property. "But Omniture is the 10,000-pound gorilla in the Web analytics industry. And the company and I mutually agreed that given the opportunity with Omniture, I should take it."
Solera names new executive -- Solera Networks Inc., a Lindon-based network security solutions provider, named Stephen W. Shillingford its senior vice president of sales.
Shillingford has over 10 years of experience in enterprise IT sales. He joins Solera from Oracle where he has been in the sales division since 2000. Most recently, Shillingford served as technology sales manager for Fusion Middleware in Oracle Corp.'s North American Sales division. Prior to Oracle, he served as a senior director for North American sales operations and as an enterprise account executive at Novell.
Manufacturing
Payson nutritional supplements maker to expand plant -- Sabinsa Corp., a Payson-based maker of nutritional supplements, is completing its 17,000 square-foot expansion of its manufacturing and distribution plant in Payson.
The newly expanded plant will increase production capacity in fluid bed processing and granulation and high- volume drum-to-hopper blends. In addition, microbiological and pilot laboratories are being built to help product development.
The new plant is scheduled to start operating in March once all the installation and operational qualifications are completed.
"In addition to our state-of-the-art fluid bed processors, our new facility incorporates some of the finest air handling and water purification systems in the industry," Ed Olson, Sabinsa's senior vice president of manufacturing, said.
This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page D4.