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Baydon Bets on Boston By boston.internet.com Staff February 5, 2001 Baydon Solutions, a Dublin, Ireland, maker of training software for medium to large businesses, has moved its headquarters to Boston and has hired its first direct sales staff. Established in 1995, the company has grown quickly in Europe on sales of its Assistware product, which enables organizations to place all their training and support into one central repository or database. A year ago, U.S. corporations provided 80 percent of their employee training via the traditional classroom training function. With this figure expected to decline to 60 percent by 2003 sees opportunities. "By delivering knowledge to corporate employees when they need it, our single enterprise-wide approach has been well received among the telecommunications, financial services, and government sectors, in particular, who are managing enormous change within their organizations," said John Hughes, Baydon's CEO. Among Baydon's customers in North America are GE Card Services and United Airlines. Baydon has also strengthened its worldwide sales presence with the addition of three sales executives: Michael Farmer, vice president of sales; Jim Thibeau, business development manager; and Pam Bajorek, business development manager. Prior to opening its office in the Financial District, Baydon partnered with Human Dynamics Inc. (HDI), Computer Associates, and PricewaterhouseCoopers allowing it to offer enterprise resource planning, business process, desktop roll out, application training and call center support.