CHICAGO----Initiate Systems, Inc., the leading provider of customer-centric master data management solutions for creating complete, real-time views of data about people, households and organizations, announced today that veteran software executive Joe Messina has joined the company as Country Manager for Canada and will be responsible for leading expansion efforts there.

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