A former Ceram student, vice-president of Siebel Systems

A former Ceram student, Fred Hessabi, from Cannes, has experienced two successes in a row. He is at the origin of the first congress of Siebel users which takes place in Cannes late this week and he has just been nominated Vice-President and General Manager for the EMEA region (Europe Middle-East & Africa) of Siebel Systems.Fred Hessabi, 39, graduated from the Ceram and holder of the MBA from Concordia, Canada, has started his career as a business engineer at CCMC. Then, he has been recruited as business manager at MSA (Management Science America) which has become Sun & Bradstreet Software, and today GEAC. In 1994, he is at the head of SSA France (Systeme Software Associates). Late 1997, Fred Hessabi opens the subsidiaries of Siebel Systems in South-Europe (France, Italy, Spain and Portugal) and is General Manager of the group in this region.