Avature Opens New Office in Sydney, Australia; Galo Claverie to Lead Asia Pacific Account Management

NEW YORK and SYDNEY, July 11, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --

Avature, a provider of innovative Web 2.0 Human Capital Management and CRM solutions, announced today that it is opening a new office in Sydney, Australia - part of an expansion plan to support Avature's global client base.  Galo Claverie, a four year veteran of Avature's central operations group in Buenos Aires, Argentina will lead Asia Pacific Account Management from the new location.

Already counting fifteen of the Fortune 100 and several of the largest Recruitment Process Outsourcing (RPO) companies among its one-hundred sixty customers, Avature seeks to expand its user base in the Asia Pacific region and strengthen its consulting and support of existing global and regional customers.

"We are excited about being on the ground in Australia," explained Dimitri Boylan, founder and CEO of the company, "and from here we will begin to build out a team of professionals to support all of southern Asia."

Sited as a Gartner "Cool Vendor" in 2010, Avature's flagship product, Avature CRM, is one of the fastest growing Web 2.0 e-recruiting systems currently available. The only enterprise CRM designed specifically for global recruiting, it supports sourcing from over 200 major web sites throughout the world, and helps customers achieve a new level of collaboration with tagging and tag clouds, e-mail threading and drop box processing, SMS communication, and other advanced Web 2.0 features.  

"My goal is to keep our local users updated on the new features introduced into the product every month, and to focus our product development and engineering teams on the challenges of our Asia Pacific customers," remarked Claverie.

Avature hosts Avature CRM from carrier neutral co-location data centers throughout the world, including the US, Ireland, the Netherlands, and Singapore.

About Avature

Founded in 2004 by Dimitri Boylan, the former co-founder and CEO of HotJobs.com, Avature is a global technology company that provides human capital management software as a service.  Headquartered in New York City, Avature has offices in Buenos Aires, Charlotte, Chicago, London, Munich, Portland, and now Sydney.

Information on Avature can be found at http://www.avatureCRM.com.