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Rockville, MD – June 9, 2011 — To support its growing presence in the federal arena, Micro Focus® (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application modernization, testing and management solutions, today announced its appointment of Joe Moyer to Director of Department of Defense (DoD) Efforts for the Federal Solutions Team.
Joe will be responsible for managing Micro Focus Federal’s growing DoD business, expanding the current team’s breadth and depth, and helping to serve this important customer. He has been with Micro Focus since 2004, most recently serving as Director, Federal Systems Integrators and Channels. Joe brings more than 19 years of direct Federal and commercial sales, channel sales, sales management and capture management expertise to the Micro Focus Federal team.
“Due to the current budget cuts, agencies are looking to cut IT costs while searching for ways to innovate through new technologies,” said Tod Tompkins, Vice President, Micro Focus Federal Government. “Joe’s depth of federal expertise and leadership will help Micro Focus position its application modernization solutions to the federal government, showing agencies how they can migrate their legacy applications to modern platforms in months, not years, without changing any code, while reaping in-year cost savings and greater performance. We are thrilled to have Joe lead our rapidly growing DoD business.”
Before joining Micro Focus’ Federal Solutions Team, Joe served as Director of Systems Integrator and Channel Sales for Micro Focus North America, where he was instrumental in driving growth. Among other positions, Joe also served in a sales role with SupportSoft Inc, where he closed the first government agency opportunity with that company. Joe is a graduate of Ball State University. A Washington DC area native, he attended Wootton High School and lives in Olney with his wife and two children.
About Micro Focus
Micro Focus, a member of the FTSE 250, provides innovative software that allows companies to dramatically improve the business value of their enterprise applications. Micro Focus Enterprise Application Modernization, Testing and Management software enables customers’ business applications to respond rapidly to market changes and embrace modern architectures with reduced cost and risk. For additional information please visit www.microfocus.com/federal-government.