Boston, April 27, 2005 -- PaperThin, Inc., a leading mid-market Web publishing and content management software vendor, today announced the appointment of Dave Dupre to the position of vice president of development. Mr. Dupre will be responsible for leading the strategic direction and development life cycle of PaperThin’s software products including its flagship Web content management solution CommonSpot™ Content Server. In addition, Mr. Dupre will also oversee the company’s development team.
"We are excited to have Dave join our management team,” said Todd Peters, Founder and President of PaperThin, Inc. “Dave is an accomplished IT professional with a proven track record of successfully launching software and bringing new technology products to market. His combined development expertise and management skills will be a tremendous asset to PaperThin, and will enable us to even more rapidly evolve our Web content management solution and continue to deliver value to our customers.”
Mr. Dupre joins PaperThin with more than 15 years experience in the high technology industry, developing numerous applications for companies like NaviMedix, Inc., Open Market, and Lotus Development Corporation. As director of software development at NaviMedix, Mr. Dupre was instrumental in conceptualizing and developing the company’s award-winning, Web-based, thin-client application, NaviNet, to facilitate over six million online transactions per month. At Open Market, Mr. Dupre spearheaded the development of a suite of applications designed to help online businesses manage their e-commerce stores.
"PaperThin has a long history of successfully providing a best-of-breed content management solution for its customers,” said Dupre. "To be successful in the highly competitive content management market, PaperThin must continue to innovate and deliver for its customers. I'm very excited to join a company with such an outstanding product and team, and I look forward to helping shape the strategic direction of PaperThin’s technology initiatives.”
About PaperThin: PaperThin, Inc. is a privately held Massachusetts-based company. Since 1993, PaperThin has helped corporations and government agencies of all sizes to significantly reduce the time and expense involved in creating, updating and managing Web content. PaperThin’s flagship product, CommonSpot™ Content Server, powers Internet, intranet and extranet sites worldwide for organizations of all sizes, including the AFL-CIO, Babson College, Booz Allen Hamilton, Business Software Alliance, Mayo Clinic, National Park Service, The Gillette Company, Turner Sports, and Vanderbilt University. CommonSpot has been twice recognized for Good Value among leading content management vendors by industry analysts at CMS Watch. And, PaperThin was recently recognized as one of New England’s fastest growing technology companies in the 2004 Deloitte & Touche Technology Fast 50.
PaperThin’s select group of partners includes industry leading Web design and development firms, system integrators, software manufacturers, and training firms, worldwide. For more information about PaperThin, Inc., please visit
http://www.paperthin.com and for additional details about CommonSpot, visit
http://www.paperthin.com/Products/Index.cfm.
