SAVO Group Strengthens Executive Management Team
The SAVO Group, the leading industry provider of Enterprise Sales Enablement solutions, today announced the appointment of Jeffrey M. Summers as Senior Vice President of Marketing, to reinforce the company's top-tier executive management team.
"Jeff's comprehensive background in sales, marketing and product management uniquely positions him to lead SAVO's thought process in creating solutions for our clients," said John Aiello, SAVO co-founder and CEO. "Jeff truly understands the pain our clients face, and he embraces our approach to merge cutting-edge marketing practices with on demand technology to bridge the great divide between marketing and sales teams."
As Senior Vice President of Marketing, Summers' responsibilities include corporate marketing, business development, sales enablement, and the building of strategic alliances. Summers and his team will also play a critical role in shaping the roadmap of SAVO's product and services offerings.
A Chicago native, Summers joins SAVO from California-based Siebel Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: SEBL), where he was general manager of the Siebel Sales Product Group. As GM, Summers directed a global product management team responsible for one of Siebel's largest solution areas and helped launch the well-known Siebel Sales 7.7. He brings to SAVO 18 years of expert sales and marketing experience, having also held various leadership roles at IBM (NYSE: IBM) and TIBCO Software, Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX).
About The SAVO Group
The SAVO Group is the industry's leading provider of Enterprise Sales Enablement solutions. SAVO specializes in maximizing the sales organization's ability to communicate value and differentiation in clear, consistent and compelling ways. Through a combination of proven sales and marketing best practices embedded in an award-winning on-demand application (Sales Asset Manager®), SAVO addresses ALL aspects of the Enterprise Sales Enablement challenge – spanning people, process, content, and technology. These solutions have been developed and refined through long-standing relationships with companies such as Morgan Stanley, Amerisource Bergen, Citigroup, ADP, and FedEx/Kinkos. The combination of real-world client experience, an innovative consulting approach, and award-winning technology uniquely positions SAVO to deliver practical solutions to enable the entire sales organization.