For the second time in 2005, Cicada is expanding its sales team with three new hires.
In the United States, Steve Rosenberg has joined Cicada as director, Americas Sales. He was previously with Reuters, where for the past 4 years, he led in developing the Enterprise Information Products Solutions business, including the DataScope suite and EIP third party redistribution sales. Prior to this, Rosenberg held various senior sales roles in the reference data and securities industries. At Bridge Information Systems, he was responsible for sales of its Sec Admin (EJV) and B2B Redistribution business; prior to this, he served as a director at CIBC Oppenheimer. He will report to Bruce Schachne, VP Global Sales.
For Europe, Cicada has hired Eija Hietavuo, who joins Cicada as European Sales Director. She was previously founder of Jemrik Ltd., a corporate research company specializing in corporate governance and corporate social responsibility analysis. Prior to this, she was with Reuters for over 10 years in a variety of senior sales and marketing roles, most recently heading EMEA region business development and marketing for equities-related products.
Cicada has also recently expanded in London, with the addition of Bruce Hawkins, formerly of GoldenSource. Hawkins now serves as Business Consultant for Cicada, managing pre- and post-sales support efforts.
While at GoldenSource, Bruce held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility, most recently Pre Sales Consultant/ Business Consultant. Both will report to Carole Mahoney, VP European Sales.
The new hires join Cicada’s existing sales efforts and will focus on responding to increasing interest in the company’s reference data management solutions, according to the company.
“We are very enthusiastic about these outstanding new additions to our sales organization,” said Bruce Schachne, VP Global Sales, “and we look forward to the contributions they will make in carrying out our growth strategy for this year. I’m proud to welcome all three to Cicada’s existing team of innovative, skilled industry professionals.”