{"id":36803,"date":"2019-11-07T07:44:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=36803"},"modified":"2019-11-07T07:44:48","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T15:44:48","slug":"y-soft-brings-in-industry-veterans-to-spearhead-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2019\/11\/y-soft-brings-in-industry-veterans-to-spearhead-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Y Soft Brings in Industry Veterans to Spearhead Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Brno, Czech Republic, and Dallas (Nov. 5, 2019)<\/em> \u2014 After releasing record fiscal year results, Y Soft Corporation today announced that it is adding two industry veterans to help continue its strong global sales growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Document and Imaging management industry veteran Barry L\u00f6wer has been tapped as the new Chief Sales Officer (CSO). In this position, L\u00f6wer will be responsible for planning and coordinating Y Soft\u2019s sales and business development activities across the entire Y Soft product portfolio, as well as helping lead Y Soft\u2019s growth trajectory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before joining Y Soft, L\u00f6wer spent two years running international customer success and advocacy for Nuance Communications\u2019 Imaging Division, later Kofax, which acquired the division in 2018. In the seven years before Nuance Communications, L\u00f6wer overlooked EMEA sales for its Imaging Division. Before that, L\u00f6wer spent time at Equitrac Corporation, where he established its presence in the EMEA region and led its revenue-generating activities and expansion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI am delighted to be leading Y Soft\u2019s global sales team and am looking forward to working with the team to support and develop Y Soft\u2019s global partner network. There is fantastic potential and opportunity for Y Soft and partners to realize in the digital office solutions market. By bringing together innovative technology and outstanding pre- and post-sales support, Y Soft and partners can deliver significant benefits to customers,\u201d L\u00f6wer commented. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Y Soft recently announced that its IOTA Hardware division, which produces card readers, 3D printers, external terminals, and edge devices, had increased its percentage of overall sales to 21%. Due to this growth, Ond\u0159ej \u017dupka was hired for the newly created role of Vice President of Manufacturing to lead Y Soft\u2019s growing manufacturing operations and strategy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u017dupka brings 18 years of large-scale manufacturing experience with companies such as TE Connectivity, Honeywell, Celestica, and Flextronics. He is tasked with scaling Y Soft manufacturing for future growth by increasing automation, standardizing quality management, optimizing production planning, and further developing the manufacturing for startups from the Y Soft Ventures portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cY Soft has a strong manufacturing business here in the Czech Republic,\u201d \u017dupka stated. \u201cI am very proud and humbled to lead the team that is producing the hardware for YSoft SafeQ, YSoft Labs, and Y Soft Venture&#8217;s portfolio companies.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI believe that Barry and Ond\u0159ej bring the necessary on the ground experience that will help us execute on anticipated growth and to capitalize on the opportunities ahead of us,\u201d said V\u00e1clav Muchna, CEO and co-founder, Y Soft. \u201cBoth positions help us meet the needs of partners and customers and prime us for our growth strategy.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the appointment of Barry L\u00f6wer into the position of CSO, Luk\u00e1\u0161 Ma\u0148\u00e1sek will move to the position of Chief of Staff, Global Sales, and will leverage his strong relationships and strong internal knowledge to support Y Soft\u2019s regional sales teams, their partners and customers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Y Soft<\/strong><br><a href=\"http:\/\/ysoft.com\">Y Soft<\/a> develops intelligent Digital Transformation office solutions for enterprise, SMB and Education that empower employees to be more productive and creative. Our YSoft SafeQ workflow solutions platform enables businesses to manage, optimize and secure their print and digital processes and workflows. Our 3D print solutions are focused in the Education sector where they provide unique ease of use and safety benefits while utilizing YSoft SafeQ software for seamless 3D print management. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in Brno, Czech Republic, with offices in North and Latin America, Europe and Middle East\/Africa (EMEA) and the Asia Pacific region (APAC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brno, Czech Republic, and Dallas (Nov. 5, 2019) \u2014 After releasing record fiscal year results, Y Soft Corporation today announced that it is adding two industry veterans to help continue its strong global sales growth. Document and Imaging management industry veteran Barry L\u00f6wer has been tapped as the new Chief Sales Officer (CSO). In this position, L\u00f6wer will be responsible for planning and coordinating Y Soft\u2019s sales and business development activities across the entire Y Soft product portfolio, as well as helping lead Y Soft\u2019s growth trajectory. Before joining Y Soft, L\u00f6wer spent two years running international customer success and advocacy for Nuance Communications\u2019 Imaging Division, later Kofax, which acquired the division in 2018. In the seven years before Nuance Communications, L\u00f6wer overlooked EMEA sales for its Imaging Division. Before that, L\u00f6wer spent time at Equitrac Corporation, where he established its presence in the EMEA region and led its revenue-generating activities and expansion. \u201cI am delighted to be leading Y Soft\u2019s global sales team and am looking forward to working with the team to support and develop Y Soft\u2019s global partner network. There is fantastic potential and opportunity for Y Soft and partners to realize in the digital office solutions market. By bringing together innovative technology and outstanding pre- and post-sales support, Y Soft and partners can deliver significant benefits to customers,\u201d L\u00f6wer commented. Y Soft recently announced that its IOTA Hardware division, which produces card readers, 3D printers, external terminals, and edge devices, had increased its percentage of overall sales to 21%. Due to this growth, Ond\u0159ej \u017dupka was hired for the newly created role of Vice President of Manufacturing to lead Y Soft\u2019s growing manufacturing operations and strategy. \u017dupka brings 18 years of large-scale manufacturing experience with companies such as TE Connectivity, Honeywell, Celestica, and Flextronics. He is tasked with scaling Y Soft manufacturing for future growth by increasing automation, standardizing quality management, optimizing production planning, and further developing the manufacturing for startups from the Y Soft Ventures portfolio. \u201cY Soft has a strong manufacturing business here in the Czech Republic,\u201d \u017dupka stated. \u201cI am very proud and humbled to lead the team that is producing the hardware for YSoft SafeQ, YSoft Labs, and Y Soft Venture&#8217;s portfolio companies.\u201d \u201cI believe that Barry and Ond\u0159ej bring the necessary on the ground experience that will help us execute on anticipated growth and to capitalize on the opportunities ahead of us,\u201d said V\u00e1clav Muchna, CEO and co-founder, Y Soft. \u201cBoth positions help us meet the needs of partners and customers and prime us for our growth strategy.\u201d With the appointment of Barry L\u00f6wer into the position of CSO, Luk\u00e1\u0161 Ma\u0148\u00e1sek will move to the position of Chief of Staff, Global Sales, and will leverage his strong relationships and strong internal knowledge to support Y Soft\u2019s regional sales teams, their partners and customers. ### About Y SoftY Soft develops intelligent Digital Transformation office solutions for enterprise, SMB and Education that empower employees to be more productive and creative. Our YSoft SafeQ workflow solutions platform enables businesses to manage, optimize and secure their print and digital processes and workflows. Our 3D print solutions are focused in the Education sector where they provide unique ease of use and safety benefits while utilizing YSoft SafeQ software for seamless 3D print management. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in Brno, Czech Republic, with offices in North and Latin America, Europe and Middle East\/Africa (EMEA) and the Asia Pacific region (APAC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[2264],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36804,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36803\/revisions\/36804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}