Workscape Names Diane Albano as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales

Technology Sales Veteran Chosen for Proven Sales Growth Experience


MARLBOROUGH, MA--(Marketwire - October 9, 2008) - Workscape, Inc., a leading provider of outsourced benefits and talent management solutions, today announced that it has appointed Diane Albano as its Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Albano will be responsible for driving the growth of Workscape's comprehensive offerings, including its Outsourced Benefits Administration and Talent Management solutions.

"Diane has a proven track record of dramatically growing revenue across a wide range of industries. Her leadership skills and sales expertise will perfectly complement our high-performance sales and account management teams," said Tim Clifford, CEO of Workscape. He continued, "Workscape is thriving in a market that is experiencing unprecedented change and growth, where demand for our strategic workforce solutions continues unabated. We look forward to leveraging Diane's experience as we expand our investments in sales, market expansion and channel development."

Albano remarked, "I am thrilled to join the team at Workscape, where an established group of sales professionals already has experienced tremendous success. I look forward to working with our existing clients and developing relationships with new customers to help them manage their two largest workforce expenditures: employee benefits and talent management."

A 31-year veteran of technology sales, Albano joins Workscape from Fast, a subsidiary of Microsoft, where she was executive vice president of worldwide sales. Under her direction, Fast grew 41% in revenue in 2008. She previously served as vice president of the Americas at Progress Software, a provider of leading application infrastructure software, and vice president of global account sales for Thomson NETG, a supplier of enterprise learning solutions. Albano also has held senior-level sales and marketing positions at Aspen Technology, Genuity, Digital Equipment Corporation, Xerox Corporation, Honeywell Corporation and Burroughs Corporation.

Albano earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Massachusetts. She also attended the Executive Management program at Harvard Business School, earning a diploma for PMD61.

About Workscape

Workscape is a leading provider of business-critical HR solutions that enable hundreds of organizations to manage their two largest workforce expenditures: employee benefits and performance-driven compensation. Workscape's offerings share a common technology platform, can be readily integrated with existing IT investments, serve millions of employees, and are scalable and configurable to meet the distinct requirements of organizations ranging from 1,000 to over 400,000 employees. One client uses the company's award-winning multi-lingual compensation solution to compensate hundreds of thousands of employees across 70 countries. Workscape's outsourced benefits administration offerings are backed by U.S.-based 24/7 support for managers and employees on policies and processes. For more information about Workscape, visit www.workscape.com or call (888) 605-9620.