PROS Strengthens Strategic Consulting Team with Addition of Pricing Industry Veteran

PROS (NYSE: PRO), the world leader in business-to-business pricing and margin optimization software, announced today that John DeCarlis has joined the PROS Leadership Team as senior vice president of Strategic Consulting, focusing on B2B manufacturing, distribution, and services markets. DeCarlis brings deep industry expertise and thought leadership to his role helping customers develop effective pricing strategies to realize enterprise-wide pricing value.

"We are pleased to welcome John DeCarlis to the PROS Leadership Team," said Bert Winemiller, PROS chairman and chief executive officer. "He is one of the top professionals in the pricing and profit optimization industry and brings more than 25 years of global business experience to extend our leadership in value realization for B2B pricing customers.”

Chris Jones, chief sales officer, added, "John is a visionary strategist and technologist who has made a major impact on the growth of the B2B pricing software industry. His skillfulness at using pricing best practices to generate tremendous margin improvement will further expand our capabilities for delivering the strategies that help our customers make money with PROS.”

DeCarlis is known for his consultative approach and keen ability to assess a wide array of business and technical issues. Before joining PROS, he was founder and managing partner of Strategic Pricing Partners, a consulting firm focused on pricing strategy development, technology enablement, effective implementation, and ongoing management to help clients establish competitive differentiation and achieve superior return for shareholders. He was also a partner in the Pricing and Profit Optimization practice at Accenture, where he worked with some of the world’s largest, most complex companies to transform their pricing capabilities.

As vice president at Manugistics, DeCarlis served as an early innovator within the industry, helping more than 70 companies create incremental value in excess of $350 million through pricing and profit optimization strategies. His areas of expertise include B2B manufacturing and distribution, consumer goods and services, and services industries. DeCarlis has a Bachelor of Science in Finance and International Relations from the University of South Carolina’s Darla Moore School of Business.

PROS software empowers B2B companies with complex pricing environments to eliminate pricing uncertainty and inefficiency, resulting in increased revenues, market share, and profitability. Manufacturers and distributors with thousands of products spread across multiple divisions and global markets find that spreadsheets and manual processes lead to generalized pricing strategies, uncertain results, and inefficient workflows. PROS’ market-leading, science-based software offers the ability to precisely and efficiently analyze, optimize and execute prices to meet strategic financial objectives. PROS is renowned for delivering rapid and significant value to customers with an increasing ROI over time and low total cost of ownership.

About PROS

PROS (NYSE: PRO) is the leading provider of profitability management and optimization software, enabling companies to unlock the value hidden in their data to improve financial performance. Through a combination of business knowledge and science-enabled software, PROS software manages and optimizes all of the financial levers that impact a company’s profitability. As a result, PROS customers have realized hundreds of millions in sustained bottom-line profitability improvement. Founded in 1985, PROS has implemented more profitability management and optimization solutions than any other market provider. To learn more about PROS, please visit www.prospricing.com.

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