In the US, CRM solutions provider Reachable has appointed Amit Khanna as Chief Data Officer. Khanna was previously President, Strategy and Planning at Infogroup.

In his new role Khanna will be responsible for all Reachable’s data efforts, which concentrate on expanding the social networks of individuals within a company, thus expanding the company’s networks and increasing contacts and sales. He will report directly to Reachable’s CEO, Al Campa.

Khanna joins from Infogroup where he worked for ten years. As well as the role of President of Strategy and Planning he also served at one time as President of Technology and Database Compilation, and President of Database Licensing. While at Infogroup he led the company’s most successful SaaS products: infoUSA.com and Salesgenie.

Campa, commenting on the appointment, said: ‘We welcome Amit to the Reachable team. We feel there is a great opportunity to combine social data and traditional business information to create enterprise social graphs and help users uncover connections to people they want to know. Amit brings to Reachable tremendous experience in the world of data. He is the right person to drive our data strategy and lead our data team.’

Reachable is based in Palo Alto, CA and Salt Lake City, UT, and can be found online at www.reachable.com .

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