SOFTPRO North America: Rod Vesling appointed as President for E-Signature Solutions

[BEAR] - 2010-04-27: Softpro North America, the world's leading vendor of systems for capture and verification of handwritten signatures and fraud prevention solutions, today announced the appointment of Rod Vesling as President for E-Signing Solutions. In his former role Rod was the Senior Vice President and Officer for the Interlink Electronics eTransactions business unit. Rod was with Interlink for almost ten years and has gained the reputation of being one of the world’s most knowledgeable experts for electronic signatures. As new President of E-signing Solutions of Softpro North America Rod Vesling will take care of business development, partner management, marketing, public relation and sales.

Heinz Reschke, CEO of the Softpro Group: "Rod knows the American E-Signing market like no other. His skills reach far beyond just speaking the language of our potential customers. His previous career achievements demonstrate his outstanding commitment. His vision and innovative way of approaching the market with real solutions fits perfectly with SOFTPRO's long-term vision: To be a forerunner and beacon for all those interested in the use of signatures without paper."

Rod Vesling: "The opportunity for automating paper based business processes utilizing electronic signatures to facilitate straight through processing is significant in North America. The economic benefit is real. Softpro is well positioned to prevail in this still emerging market given its rich history in delivering impactful signature fraud detection and secure electronic signature solutions around the world. Together with the company’s solid financial position, leading technologies, excellent people and vision for the future, I couldn’t be more pleased to be joining Softpro at this time."

In his former career Rod also served as Vice President of OEM Sales and Strategic Initiatives for Plasmon (formally LMS, a division of Philips Electronics) and was also employed by the Eastman Kodak Company, where he held several senior positions, including positions in sales and marketing and business development. Rod earned his Masters in Business Administration from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester, New York. He has an Economics degree from St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York.

Softpro founded its US-subsidiary in 1999. The US market is regarded as one the most promising one for the future expansion of Softpro.

Rod Vesling may be contacted via e-mail rod.vesling@softpro-na.com, phone +1 805 279-3993 and office snail mail to SOFTPRO North America, E-Signature Solutions, Rod Vesling, 2629 Townsgate, Suite 235, Westlake Village, CA 91361, United States.

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About SOFTPRO

The SOFTPRO GmbH is a world leader in developing and marketing products and solutions for digital capture, management and verification of handwritten signatures.

The fastest growing line of business are solutions for E-Signing - in particular biometric signatures. SOFTPRO is offering E-Signing software - from the SDK (SignWare) via desktop clients (SignDoc) to a complete platform for Web-based signing (SignDoc Web). The products support a wide range of devices for signature capturing - from basic pen pads up to Tablet PCs. This can lower your costs, accelerate business processes, eliminate errors and protect documents against manipulation. E-Signing with SOFTPRO is environmentally friendly and thus supports Green IT initiatives and Corporate Social responsibility programs.

The second major division of SOFTPRO is the detection of fraud through automated comparison of signatures. This comparison is primarily used for checks. SOFTPRO’s Automatic Signature Verification is also used to secure the postal ballot (e.g. in the United States and the United Kingdom). Additional fraud analysis tools may be added to the verification process. The results of these complex tests are analyzed, weighted and presented as a holistic risk assessment.

SOFTPRO solutions are currently used in 31 countries on five continents. Ten of the world's 25 largest banks are SOFTPRO customers, as well as insurance, retail and telecommunications companies, public administration, the energy and the health sector.

The parent company of the SOFTPRO group is the SOFTPRO GmbH founded 1983 in Boeblingen near Stuttgart. Four subsidiaries are based in the United States, in the United Kingdom, in India and in Singapore. Additional representations operate in Brazil and Lebanon. The group currently employs around sixty people. SOFTPRO's software is developed "made in Germany".

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SOFTPRO GmbH Wilhelmstrasse 34 71034 Boeblingen Germany Phone: +49 7031 6606 0 Fax: +49 7031 6606 66 Joerg-M. Lenz Manager PR