Today, Mercury Interactive Corporation, the global leader in business technology optimisation, announced its chairman and CEO Amnon Landan is an award recipient of the prestigious 2003 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Information Technology in Northern California.
Landan was recognised for his achievements in business technology optimisation among 35 finalists of Silicon Valley and Northern California`s top business leaders. Landan was honoured on 20 June at the 17th annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award banquet.
"This award reflects the achievements of the people and customers of Mercury Interactive who have secured our position as the leader in the business technology optimisation industry," said Landan. "I am honoured to lead our world-class team. We all look forward to helping our customers optimise the value of their information technology."
Other recipients of this award have included Bill Coleman of BEA Systems, David Duffield of PeopleSoft, Larry Ellison of Oracle, Charles Geschke and John Warnock of Adobe, Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems, Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce of Intel, Pierre Omidyar of eBay, and Stratton Sclavos of VeriSign.
Landan was recognised for establishing Mercury Interactive as one of the top performing software companies in the world and received top scores in leadership and management, innovation, people philosophy and financial performance.
In March 2003, the Wall Street Journal ranked Mercury Interactive number one among software companies in its shareholder scorecard for the best five-year average returns. In April, BusinessWeek ranked Mercury among the top five S&P 500 software performers. Mercury is also ranked in the top 20 on Forbes Fastest Growing Technology Companies, with 41% sales growth over the past five years and 11% in the last year.
Mercury Interactive is the leader in the business technology optimisation industry enabling CIOs to run IT as a business and optimise the business of IT.
"Amnon Landan`s focus on leading the emerging business technology optimisation market and enabling customers to align IT with the business has driven Mercury Interactive`s strong growth and leadership," said Rick Fezell, Ernst & Young Emerging Growth Markets leader.
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Mercury Interactive, the global leader in business technology optimisation (BTO), delivers Optane, a family of products for application delivery and management that enables customers to optimise business processes and maximise business results. Customers worldwide use Mercury Interactive`s Optane to improve quality and performance, reduce costs and align IT with business goals. Founded in 1989, Mercury Interactive is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, with offices in more than 25 countries. Further information is available at www.mercuryinteractive.com or by phone at SA +21 11 802 1011. The company`s common stock trades on the Nasdaq +National Market under the symbol MERQ.