Achievers Names Owen Sagness as General Manager

Achievers, a provider of employee recognition and engagement solutions, announced the appointment of Owen Sagness as general manager.

Sagness joined Achievers from AppNexus, where he was vice president, Northern Europe and CEEMEA. Before that, he held progressively expanded roles at Microsoft for more than 20 years, culminating as UK general manager of advertising and online. Earlier in his career, he was a software engineer at Nortel and a senior consultant at Hewlett-Packard. He holds a degree in math and computer science from the University of Waterloo.