Be Informed Appoints Louis Hartwell as Managing Director UK and Ireland

APELDOORN, the Netherlands, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

Be Informed marks its rapid international development with the appointment of Louis Hartwell as Managing Director UK and Ireland. Be Informed's model driven business process platform continues to convince knowledge intensive organizations throughout the world. Netherlands based Be Informed is now represented in Europe, the Americas, the UK and Ireland and has, through its representation in Turkey, disclosed the markets in the Near East.

Louis Hartwell has over 20 years' extensive global experience in Governance, Compliance, Forensics, P&L, International Strategic Planning and Operations. He was Principal Partner of Diversified Productions Inc., leading performance management and forensic investigations for the Arizona Public Schools and Medicare programs. Prior to this he was Managing Director UK, URU Technologies Inc., supporting the Cabinet Office and US Security. He was CEO of the primary top 100 hosting company ABN Global Inc., and was also Partner KPMG leading the Global Communications Operators Group headquartered in London.

"I am extremely pleased and excited to have this opportunity to lead this unique business in the UK and Ireland," says Hartwell, "especially with its next-generation model driven applications addressing today's rapidly changing political, economic and business environments."

CEO Rik Hoogenberg is delighted with Hartwells appointment: "Louis Hartwells appointment confirms the rapid development of Be Informed throughout Europe. He has extensive experience in various fields and shares our belief in the potential of our business process platform. I am convinced that Louis will make the UK & Ireland contribute significantly to the success of Be Informed."

About Be Informed

Be Informed is an internationally operating, independent software vendor. Its business process platform supports administrative processes, which are becoming increasingly knowledge-intensive. Thanks to Be Informed's unique approach to dynamic case management, the next wave after business process management, organizations using Be Informed often report cost savings of tens of percents. Further benefits include a much higher straight-through processing rate leading to vastly improved productivity, and a reduction in time-to-change from months to days.