SDL International, a leader in the emerging marketplace for global information management (GIM) solutions, is pleased to announce the strengthening of its North American commercial team in response to increased demand for its enterprise software solutions. Brad Lyon has joined SDL in the role of Vice President – North American Enterprise Sales, reporting to Clive Thomas, SDL’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Mr Lyon will be responsible for taking SDL’s Global Information Management message to a group of carefully targeted corporations for whom globalization is an increasingly pressing issue.

“It’s an exciting time to be with SDL,” commented Mr Lyon, “particularly at the moment when the importance of Global Information Management is becoming apparent to so many of America’s most significant exporters.”  Mr Lyon joins SDL following a successful software and information technology sales career spanning 20 years, most recently with enterprise software provider Idiom Technologies Inc. He will be located at SDL’s Sunnyvale, CA offices.