About Emanio

Emanio history
Emanio, headquartered in Berkeley, California, was founded in 1994 and has operations across the United States and in Europe. In 1995, Emanio was one of the first companies to send EDI messages over the Internet and integrate these into backend ERP and Supply Chain Management systems through a single tool. With over 17,000 customers, Emanio provides a broad line of global trading community B2B software and solutions services for supplier and customer e-commerce connection and interaction. These solutions aim at enabling companies to optimize profitability through timely and efficient communications with their trading partner communities.

Acquisitions
In 2002, Emanio acquired all of the Trading Partner® and OnCall*EDI® assets of Mercator Software. Mercator, previously TSI and Foretell, has implemented its solutions with over 10,000 customers since 1978.

Client base
Emanio has installed solutions for manufacturing and healthcare organizations, as well as local and state governments internationally. A wide variety of enterprises such as Citigroup, Liberty Mutual, Prax Air and Kohler and international companies such as Norwegian Telecom and Aker Maritime are also served.

Within healthcare, Emanio serves suppliers such as Allegiance, Baxter and Owens and Minor along with over 2,000 healthcare providers located all over the US and Canada.

Emanio's focus is on working with organizations to solve business requirements through analysis, technology and services, and eMessaging through EDI, ASN / barcoding solutions and data integration.

Management Team

CEO - KG Charles-Harris
Former co-founder of GenoMar, a genomics company focused on aquaculture and food safety, KG Charles-Harris co-founded and financed EMANIO in Norway in 1994 and became CEO in 2000. He is a former technology investment banker and entrepreneur, and worked internationally with companies like NOKA Securities (Scandinavia) and Nesta Advisors & Capital (globally). In 1996 he co-founded Hurd, a Scandinavian corporate venture company focused on new technologies (clean water, pure air, cheap renewable energy and cheap protein).

Sales Director - Richard Schwab
He is responsible for leading the direct sales and partner channel sales teams. He also leads the company's major accounts sales. Prior to joining EMANIO, Schwab spent three years at Intraware reselling IT infrastructure software and selling digital delivery systems, culminating in his last position as Southeast Regional Sales Manager, reporting to the Vice President of Sales.

Schwab started his career in data integration with Premenos and Harbinger (Inovis). During his combined years at these companies, he held numerous territory sales roles selling EDI software, network services and trading partner enablement programs to Fortune 1000 companies throughout the US. Schwab was educated at the University of Oregon and holds a bachelor of science in Advertising.

VP On-Line Marketing - Blane Perun
Extensive experience in Online Marketing strategies and execution with special focus on internet branding, search engine marketing and lead generation. With a strong background in technology sales (ERP) marketing is closely integrated with sales execution.

VP Product Marketing - Walter Paliska
Former Vice President of Marketing & Sales of eStrategies Inc., Walter has over 16 years of experience in high technology sales and marketing with companies like Phoenix Technologies, Logitech Inc., FWB Software and others. He has successfully built sales organizations achieving record revenue growth with both direct and indirect sales models.

Director of Services - Randy Hyshiver
Over 15 years experience with product development, enterprise e-commerce software development and implementation with, among others, IBM and BroadVision. He has developed extensive training and technical support infrastructures in large and mid-sized organizations .

Software Architect - Knut Øygardslia
Co-founder of Emanio and former Chief Systems Engineer for Norwegian Telecom (Telenor) and pioneer in the European electronic messaging and trade communities. Designed and launched the first EDI platform with backend built-in integration called EDITALK.