Athanathios “A.K.” Kalekos Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Sand Hill Systems

July 2004 - Executive search firm ChampionScott Partners has placed Athanathios Kalekos as Chief Executive Officer of Sand Hill Systems. Mr. Kalekos will be responsible for scaling the business and all functional areas of the organization. Previously Mr. Kalekos was a general partner at Telos Ventures investing in early stage companies in enterprise software, information technology and IT infrastructure. Prior to venture capital, Mr. Kalekos was a corporate officer with Cadence Design Systems.

Sand Hill Systems develops software to capture and process information from electronic forms and document images, and integrate that information into enterprise back-end systems and workflows – reducing operations costs for businesses and speeding responsiveness to market changes. The company’s breakthrough, patent-pending technology is enabling the bridge between today’s existing forms and processes and the next generation of electronic forms that are active, networked, and mobile. Sand Hill is backed by Tierra Del Oro, a seed-stage venture capital firm, and has partnered with Intel, Microsoft and Adobe in the development of its products.

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