Apprion Names Chris Seaman to Head Market Development
NASA AMES RESEARCH PARK, MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., July 25 /PRNewswire/ — Apprion, the pioneer of managed industrial wireless solutions for manufacturers, today named Chris Seaman director of Market Development. Seaman will be responsible for growing business opportunities in the process manufacturing industry, focusing primarily on the oil, gas, chemical, and energy markets.
Seaman brings to Apprion nearly 25 years of broad industry experience, including leadership delivering enterprise-level software solutions to process manufacturing customers, managing industrial applications and systems as a plant operations manager for Celanese Chemical and working as a process engineer for Exxon Chemical.
“Chris will play a key role in sustaining Apprion’s business growth through his deep domain expertise in the industrial chemicals industry, combined with technical and market development experience for enterprise software and other technology solutions,” said Stephen Lambright, Apprion’s CEO. “With his domain knowledge of industrial process and control operations and of customized software, Chris can help us deliver solutions that further improve plant operations, safety and security.”
“Through the convergence of wireless systems, enterprise-class software and services, Apprion is providing new platform solutions to the process manufacturing industry,” said Seaman, who is based in Houston. “I’m eager and excited to be part of a leading-edge team that’s meeting these new demands for gaining better control over the proliferation of multiple wireless systems in manufacturing settings.”
Seaman has a long history of success in bringing technology and services solutions to the process industry in previous positions with Pavillion Technologies, OSIsoft and Aspen Technology.
Earlier in his career, Seaman was a plant operations manager at Celanese Chemical, the global provider of bulk and specialty chemicals, where he was responsible for all aspects of production facilities at the Pampa Plant.
About Apprion
Apprion provides the ION system — an integrated platform that optimizes the security, management, performance and business value of wireless systems deployed in industrial manufacturing environments. The ION wireless infrastructure can be deployed across a single facility, or across multiple operational areas to help cut costs, improve efficiency, productivity and performance, enhance safety and security, and provide more meaningful analytical metrics of plant systems and assets. Headquartered at the NASA Research Park in Moffett Field, Calif., more information can be found about Apprion at: http://www.apprion.com/, by e-mail at apprioninfo@apparion.com, or by phone at 650/964-4321.
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