NCR announces new French Canadian President to leverage mulit-channel self-service market in Canada

Focus will be helping Canadian businesses optimize self-service solutions

 

June 30, 2009 MISSISSAUGA, Ontario - NCR Corporation (NYSE:NCR) announced today the appointment of Luc Villeneuve as President of NCR Canada   

 

An accomplished information technology professional with over 20 years of experience, Villeneuve will be responsible for sales, client services, marketing, and the management of all aspects of NCR Canada’s financial and retail businesses, as well as the emerging vertical industries of travel, gaming, entertainment and healthcare. He will be based in the company’s Canadian head office in Mississauga, Ontario.

 

“Luc’s primary objective will be to help businesses in the Canadian financial and retail industries, as well as the travel, healthcare and entertainment industries,” said John Di Leo, region vice president North America, sales and marketing. “Luc will work with business to adopt and optimize self-service solutions to help lower their costs and open new channels of revenue.  There is tremendous growth of the self-service market in Canada. Luc will have close contact with our customers in Canada, helping them to be successful with their self service strategies.”

 

Prior to joining NCR, Villeneuve spent five years at Sun Microsystems Canada as the vice president of sales. During his career he has held senior executive sales and marketing positions at BCE, GE Capital ITS and CNC Global Limited.

 

Villeneuve is bilingual and holds a business administration degree from Algonquin College. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario's Marketing Management Executive Program and is a certified Six Sigma practitioner.

 

About NCR Corporation

 

NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) is a global technology company leading how the world connects, interacts and transacts with business. NCR’s assisted- and self-service solutions and comprehensive support services address the needs of retail, financial, travel, healthcare, hospitality, entertainment, gaming and public sector organizations in more than 100 countries.  NCR (www.ncr.com) is headquartered in Duluth, Georgia.

 

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News Media Contact

 

Alix Edmiston, ABC*
Corporate Communications Consultant, NCR Canada
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