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Michiko Diby Joins Crowd Fusion as Director of Process Management

Jun 7, 2011 1:21 PM

Jun 07, 2011 – NEW YORK — Crowd Fusion, the cloud-based web content management platform, today announced that Michiko Diby has joined the company in the newly created role of Director of Process Management. Reporting to Crowd Fusion COO Craig Wood, Diby will concentrate on increasing Crowd Fusion's ability to streamline and optimize management and operational processes. 

"Crowd Fusion is all about results. That's why big companies work with us," said Crowd Fusion CEO Brian Alvey. "For Crowd Fusion to transition from a startup to a larger company ourselves and keep delivering amazing solutions with tight customer deadlines we've got to be incredibly efficient. That's why we teamed up with Michiko." 

Diby, a Project Management Professional (PMP), has more than 15 years experience in IT Project and Process Management. She has led a variety of successful ERP requirement and project efforts in the sectors of business analytics, reporting and intelligence, project portfolio management, e-commerce, content management, decision management, customer relationship management (CRM), corporate finance, servicing, inventory and asset management for large organizations including T.Rowe Price, Fannie Mae, Citifinancial, the United States Army and HUD. 

Diby's popular blog, Kosmothink (formerly named Preventing Project Failure), is one of the Project and Portfolio Management's top 100 Project Management blogs and has been featured as a TechRepublic CIO Sanity Saver. Diby has been quoted in PM Network, the Project Management's Institute's monthly magazine serving over 400,000 members. Diby also serves as a Focus community Project and Process Management Expert. She is a member of the Association of Business Process Management Professionals (ABPMP), the International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), the Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association (AFCEA), a signer of the Agile Manifesto and a leader in her local chapter of the Project Management Institute (PMI). Diby has an MS in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University and a BA in Government from the University of Maryland, College Park. 

"Crowd Fusion is a leader in using lean and Kanban processes," said Diby. "These exciting new patterns in systems development allow us to build customer products with more agility and more quality from start to finish than our competitors. My goal is to ensure that we continue to lead in this area and maximize value for our customers."

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Crowd Fusion, the "publish everywhere" platform, enables publishers to speed the development of new products across multiple platforms and devices. Crowd Fusion's powerful rendering engine serves traditional websites as well as personalized, engaging mobile applications. Running in the cloud, Crowd Fusion provides the scale that category-leading digital media businesses need -- from popular websites like TMZ to groundbreaking new media brands like News Corp's The Daily. Investors in Crowd Fusion include Fuse Capital, Greycroft Partners, Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz.