MAJIQ has appointed David Pawelke as President, elevating its Chief Operating Officer to the top of the business as Steve Latham retires after more than three decades in the pulp and paper industry.
Pawelke has spent his career inside the company, moving through project management and then the vice presidency of sales and marketing before taking the chief operating officer role. The promotion is an internal elevation rather than an external hire, and it hands the presidency to someone who has already run the operational side of the business.
MAJIQ builds manufacturing execution system and enterprise software purpose built for the pulp and paper industry. Its Elixir and Ether products cover order management, planning and scheduling, production, quality, warehousing, shipping and invoicing. The company says its software supports more than four hundred mills, converters and warehouses worldwide each year, tracking the production of more than fifteen million rolls, nine million bales and six million pallets, and managing more than one million global shipments.
Founded in Redmond, Washington in 1981, MAJIQ is not an independent company. It is part of Constellation Software, the Toronto listed acquirer that holds several hundred vertical market software businesses, and it sits within Constellation's Perseus Operating Group. Constellation bought MAJIQ in 2010, having been acquired itself by TietoEnator in 2002.
That ownership structure matters for reading the title. A presidency inside a Constellation operating business is a divisional presidency: Pawelke runs MAJIQ as a standalone unit with its own profit and loss, inside a group whose model is to leave acquired businesses substantially alone rather than integrate them. The role carries real operating authority over a defined vertical, which is a different thing from the presidency of a listed parent.
Latham's retirement closes a long tenure. MAJIQ's own leadership page listed him as President until the change, and the company credits him with more than thirty years of leadership at MAJIQ and across the wider pulp and paper sector. The announcement did not name a successor to Pawelke's vacated chief operating officer role.
The company counts Thunder Bay Pulp and Paper, J.D. Irving, Domtar, Smurfit Westrock, Suzano and Rayonier Advanced Materials among its customers. It does not publish a headcount.
The succession is a conventional one for a mature software business in a slow moving industrial vertical: a long serving president retires, the chief operating officer who already knows the customer base steps up, and the parent group does not go outside. For a company that has been selling into the same mills for more than forty years, continuity is arguably the point.
MAJIQ issued the announcement from Redmond, Washington on October 7, carried over the PR Newswire and Canada Newswire circuits.
