5square.com Appoints Kinford as President, Mackey as Senior Vice President of Products
5square.com announced the appointment of Skip Kinford as president and Ged Mackey as senior vice president of products. Mackey will lead 5square.com's product development and engineering teams, develop strategy for product development and manage the software development lifecycle.
Westlake Village, Calif.—5square.com announced the appointment of Skip Kinford as president and Ged Mackey as senior vice president of products.
Kinford will set company strategy and manage day-to-day operations, leading all sales, support, product, marketing and financial services.
Prior to joining 5sqaure, Kinford was senior vice president of sales and marketing at On-Line Administrators. He also served as executive vice president at NMB Technologies Corporation.
Mackey will lead 5square.com’s product development and engineering teams, develop strategy for product development and manage the software development lifecycle.
Mackey brings more than 20 years of experience in software product development to 5square.com. He previously served as vice president of product development at Access360. Prior to Access360, Mackey worked for Glovia International, a company that provides enterprise resource planning (ERP) and manufacturing resource planning (MRP) applications.
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