Cornerstone Information Systems on Tuesday announced the
hiring of former Prime Numbers Technology president Rock Blanco as vice
president for product innovation and marketing. Two days later, Boston-area
travel management company Atlas Travel revealed it would move Prime Numbers and
its Travel GPA data reporting solution into an "umbrella" company,
alongside the TMC, called Atlas Travel & Technology Group. The group's CEO,
Elaine Osgood, co-founded Prime Numbers in 2007 with Blanco, who announced his departure from the firm in February.
Osgood also stated Thursday that Travel GPA would be renamed
Travel HD and become "a more comprehensive product" under the
leadership of Prime Numbers chief technology officer Jason Gabor and vice
president Doug Vasquez. Prime Numbers this month also intends to hire a new
director of business development and product marketing; Osgood said former
Prime Numbers sales director Denice Key retired.
In a prepared statement apparently designed to allay the
concerns of Prime Numbers' TMC clients—potential competitors to Atlas the
TMC—Atlas Travel & Technology Group CFO John Hannon indicated that "we
have established a separation between company operations. In this age of shared
services within related businesses, it is imperative that separation of data
exists not only in form, but in fact, to eliminate even the possibility of data
compromise."
Meanwhile, Blanco's new role at Cornerstone is a homecoming
of sorts. Years before forming Prime Numbers with Osgood, Blanco created and
sold to Cornerstone the iBank web-based data reporting solution, which
Cornerstone still offers today.
Cornerstone indicated that Blanco initially would aim
"to better align Cornerstone's existing technology offering with the
business objectives of its rapidly expanding customer base. He will also play a
key role in the release of new versions of iBank and iQCX, targeted for release
this summer, as well as future product releases addressing open booking
integration, benchmarking and mobile platform interaction."