• December 2, 2008

Progress Software Corporation has appointed Gary Conway to the newly created position of Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.

Conway will be responsible for all marketing programs company-wide, as well as for the company's positioning and go-to-market strategies.

Prior to joining Progress Software, Conway was senior vice president of marketing at Sprint Nextel--responsible for demand generation in all sales channels and lines of business, company positioning, and go-to-market messaging. This responsibility included advertising, media, research, direct marketing and Web marketing. In this role, he was also responsible for the development of the new Sprint-Nextel brand when the two companies merged in 2005.--Nina Lentini