Chelmsford, MA-based Datawatch (NASDAQ: [[ticker:DWCH]]), an analytics products and services provider, announced today that it has hired IBM and Cognos veteran Michael Morrison as its president and chief executive, replacing previous CEO Ken Bero. Morrison, who will also sit on the Datawatch board of directors, was IBM’s vice president of financial performance management and held a similar role at Cognos prior to its acquisition by Big Blue in 2008. Datawatch provides analytics of PDFs, business documents, reports, and other data sources.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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