Message-ID: <32000486.1075852532710.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:01:18 -0700 (PDT) From: news@prosrm.com To: jtholt@ect.enron.com Subject: PROS Energy Profit Optimization Workshop Boasts Top Speakers Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "PROS Revenue Management" @ENRON X-To: jtholt@ect.enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \JTHOLT (Non-Privileged)\Tholt, Jane M.\Deleted Items X-Origin: Tholt-J X-FileName: JTHOLT (Non-Privileged).pst PROS Energy Profit Optimization Workshop Boasts Top Speakers October 16, 2001-Houston- PROS Revenue Management, the world's leader in pricing and revenue optimization science and software, and the pioneer and dominant provider of revenue management to the airline and energy industries, today announced that several industry-leading speakers have been slated to appear at its Energy Profit Optimization Workshop, being held November 5 at PROS' offices in Houston, TX. "PROS has selected some of the top leaders in the energy industry," says Matt Johnson, senior vice president of PROS' energy group. "The use of pricing optimization and revenue management solutions is essential for the forward-thinking energy industry companies to survive and prosper, and our workshop will show this to our interested participants." The scheduled speakers for the PROS-hosted workshop include: ? Rob Bond - Vice President Commercial Optimization, CMS Energy Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line ? Soli Forouzan - Former Vice President Risk and Director of Storage Trading at PG&E, Mr. Forouzan now provides executive consulting on storage optimization best practices ? Glen Shrank, @TheMoment - Industry leader of Optimized Dynamic Commerce Tools that are at the heart of ERCOT auction pricing engines for both Reliant Energy and TXU ? Matt Johnson - Senior Vice President, Energy group at PROS Revenue Management ? Kurt King - Managing Director, Commercial Technology at Duke Energy ? Ted Valkov - PROS Revenue Management's Senior Research Scientist ? Albert Viscio - Senior Accenture partner focusing on pricing and revenue optimization strategy and best practices in energy, utilities, and chemical industries This workshop is free of charge. For more information, please check PROS' Web site at . PROS Revenue Management is the world's leader in pricing and revenue optimization solutions and the pioneer and dominant provider of revenue management to the airline and energy industry. PROS provides system solutions to the airline, energy, cargo, rail, healthcare, and broadcast industries, and has licensed over 235 systems to more than 95 clients in 39 countries. PROS' clients include 15 of the top 25 carriers in the airline industry. The PROS mission is to maximize the revenue of each client using PROS' world-leading revenue management science, systems solutions, and best practices business consulting. PROS' clients report annual incremental revenue increases of 6-8% as a result of revenue management. PROS' solutions forecast demand, optimize inventory, and provide dynamic pricing to maximize revenue. Founded in 1985 in Houston, PROS Revenue Management has a six-year compounded revenue growth of 40%, in large part due to the intellectual capital of its staff. Nearly half of PROS' professional staff has advanced degrees and the staff speaks a cumulative total of 26 languages. The company is profitable with Year 2000 revenue of $29 million. For more information on PROS Revenue Management, please visit www.prosRM.com or call 713-335-5151. Contact: Candy Haase - VP Marketing 713-335-5151 / 713-335-8144 - fax If you no longer wish to receive updates from PROS, please click "Reply" and type "Unsibscribe." Please be sure to include your email address.