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Yippy, Inc. (YIPI) Hires ex-IBM Executive as Chief Operating Officer
Yippy, Inc. (YIPI) Hires ex-IBM Executive as Chief Operating Officer.
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[{"type":"text","content":"\n \n \n \n\n\nYippy,\nInc. (YIPI) Hires ex-IBM Executive as Chief Operating Officer\n\n \n\nFort\nMyers, FL, October 30, 2013 --Yippy, Inc. (OTC: YIPI) (www.yippy.com) (?Yippy? or the\n?Company?), a unified search company known for its search clustering technology,\n?Big Data? consolidation and eDiscovery tools, announced today that it hired\nErrol F. Walsh as the Company?s Chief Operating Officer and appointed Mr. Walsh\nto the Company?s Board of Directors, effective immediately.\n\n\n\nMr. Walsh worked\nat IBM for 31 years, ending his career in an executive management role,\nresponsible for a group of more than 7000 employees and an operating budget of\n1.2 billion dollars prior to his retirement in 1993. After retiring from IBM, Errol served as the\nChief Executive Officer of Technology Support Corp. (?TSC?) until 2006. TSC was a contracted IBM consulting firm, responsible\nfor the integration of all SAP modules together with the IT deliverables that\ncreated the IBM Fulfillment SAP Project. \nThis project encompassed the prototype phase, validation of the prototype\nand the integration testing of newly developed systems and processes. Mr. Walsh most recently served as a chief\nconsultant for Axiom Consulting, LLC (?Axiom?), until 2009. At Axiom, Mr. Walsh worked with applications\ndevelopment and project management to set up support for end users for major\ncorporations such as Fluor and SAP.\n\n \n\n?I believe\nYippy?s strategy of interconnecting software internally developed and acquired\ninto the cloud through their Enterprise Application Services Environment (EASE)\nplatform is a game changer. In over\nforty years in the IT industry, I have never seen such a ground-breaking\nproduct which I believe can out-perform the majors head to head, with\nfunctionalities far above those of Oracle, IBM, SAP or Microsoft. My role is to take Yippy from prototype stage\nto full operations,? said Mr. Walsh.\n\n \n\nHe continued,\n?My next goal is to get Rich and his team in front of as many IT executives as\nI can though my connections in the industry. \nI believe that Rich Granville sees things that other do not, and in my\nopinion is the most diligent and tactical man I have ever met. I came out of retirement to be a part of what\nI believe to be the most innovative t...