By Karyn Scherer – NZ Herald
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Paul Trotter likes to joke that he has “two lives, one wife”. He means that he spends up to a third of each year overseas, and two-thirds in Auckland, where his long-suffering family have become used to his frequent absences.
It’s a sacrifice he’s prepared to make for a bit longer yet, to allow him to focus on a crucial growth phase for the software company he founded 14 years ago in a spare room at home.
What began as a single product to make desktop publishing easier to manage has evolved into a sophisticated solution for content management which is used by some of the world’s biggest companies, such as Coca-Cola, Computer Associates, and HP.
Trotter knew right from the beginning that he would have to target overseas markets, as New Zealand was simply too small.
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Posted on 24/06/10 in
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Author-it Software Corporation (ASC), a world leader in software for enterprise authoring, content management, publishing, and localization, today announces the appointment of Todd Caponi to Vice President Global Sales. Caponi joins Author-it as the company celebrated its success in securing significant new business at Microsoft, Schneider Electric and Nevada Energy in the first half of 2010.
Caponi is an award winning expert in driving the revenue capacity of high growth companies. After owning and operating a sales training and consulting company, Caponi’s most recent position was with Sequoia Capital funded, Right Hemisphere where he was the Vice President of Worldwide Sales. During the recent economic downturn, he tripled the revenue output of the Right Hemisphere sales team, winning the American Business “Stevie” Award for Vice President of Worldwide Sales of the Year in 2009, beating other finalists including the Vice President of Sales from FedEx.
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Posted on 17/06/10 in
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