Milan — Silvano Joly is the new Vice President Worldwide Marketing of think3, a multinational working for 30 years in the CAD and PLM sector, with offices in Europe, Asia and the United States. In the new position, Joly will be responsible at the worldwide level for Product Marketing, Marketing Communication and Sales Operations.
Silvano Joly, 42, comes from Turin and has a Political Science degree from Turin's Università degli Studi and has 20 years' experience in sales and marketing management, 15 of which have been in the ICT products and services sector.
The most significant stages of his career were at PTC from 1996 to 2002 where he progressed from Sales Representative to District Manager in 1997, Regional Director in 1998, finally being promoted to Area Vice President in 2000. After that he was Business Development Manager at Reply where he looked after sales and marketing in the PDM, PLM, ERP, CRM and SCM markets as part of services offered by the Extended Enterprise.
In 2004 he joined Bladelogic (now BMC) as Regional Manager Southern Europe and set up its operations in Italy, Spain and Greece. Since 2006 he has been Managing Partner of Seac02 (Italian start-up of the year in 2006), and consolidated its role as a "rising star" in the software market for Digital Marketing and Interactive Virtual Reality. At the same time Joly was also Associate Venture Manager at the Fondazione Torino Wireless, the body promoting the growth of the Piedmont ICT District.
Lastly, before think3, Joly filled the role of Sales Manager, Large Enterprise Business User at SAP and Business Objects, a company belonging to the SAP group, promoting Business Intelligence and Decision Support solutions in the main Italian industrial companies. At the end of 2008 Joly accepted the new post at think3.
“To join the management team of think3, an Italian multinational with thirty years of experience in solutions for the product development process, is for me an honour and a stimulating challenge," says Silvano Joly.

For more information, please contact Samanta Fumagalli, PR & Communication Manager, Email Contact, tel. +39 (0)39 6411141.

Information about think3, Inc
Think3 has been operating in the ICT sector for 30 years and provides the only technology that links three separate design areas: the concept, its development and the finished product. In this way, think3 enables thousands of company customers to innovate, to compete and to rise to the challenges of global markets, thanks to the integration of processes, which helps to accelerate time to market and to reduce costs.
Having been active in emerging markets with dedicated structures for many years, think3 can provide outsourcing services, thus offering companies a new opportunity to go international.
Think3 boasts a consolidated presence across Europe, the US and Asia. The company has also secured a strong presence in China following joint venture deal sealed with Beijing Extech Science & Technology Co. Ltd to create EXTECH, a brand new company based in Beijing, with offices across the country. In the rest of the world, think3 is present throughout its network of selected VARs (Value Added Resellers).
All this means that think3 can count among its customers some of the most significant enterprises in the industrial market.
For more information visit our site at http://www.think3.com