Several weeks ago, Vice President of Partner Success Jasmine Lombardi was nominated as a finalist for the Stevie® Awards in the “Female Executive of the Year” category for companies with 11 to 2,500 employees. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business honors women executives, entrepreneurs, employees and the companies they run worldwide. The Stevie Awards have been hailed as the world’s premier business awards.
Finalists were chosen by more than 100 business professionals worldwide during preliminary judging and 60 final judges.
During the 11th annual awards dinner on Friday, November 14 at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City, Jasmine received the Silver Award for second place worldwide in her category.
To view Jasmine’s interview after receiving the award, click here.
King of Prussia, Pa. (PRWEB) November 20, 2014 – Xtium, Inc., a leading managed cloud hosting, online backup and virtual disaster recovery services company, announced today that David Rode has been named Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board. A seasoned technology executive with a proven track record in field operations, sales, marketing and partner alliances, Rode will lead Xtium’s growth strategy.
“It is a top priority for many mid-market companies to move their critical IT infrastructure to the cloud,” said Scott Maxwell, Managing Partner at OpenView Venture Partners, Xtium’s investor. “By bringing on a new CEO with tremendous operational experience, we are making the right move to ensure we scale to win in this business. David’s expertise leading highly successful global sales and marketing efforts at international software companies will prove integral to Xtium’s mission in capitalizing on the cloud services market opportunity.”
Prior to joining Xtium, Rode was Senior Vice President of Sales for 1E, a London-based software company, where he grew revenues over 30 percent during his tenure. Before 1E, Rode served as Executive Vice President of Global Operations for Revitas, a leading revenue management software provider. Under his leadership, Revitas turned around and achieved 40 percent compound annual growth.
“I am absolutely committed to providing world-class service to Xtium’s existing clients as well as executing a growth plan that fuses high value managed services with the latest cloud technologies,” said Rode. “Xtium is poised to be a significant player in the Cloud 2.0 space.”
Rode’s leadership experience also includes Stockholm-based Intentia where, as the Chicago-based president, he drove the company’s expansion in the U.S., Canadian and Latin American markets. He managed the merger of field operations when Lawson and Intentia merged in 2006. In addition, he has deep experience in the business intelligence and enterprise integration markets, having spent five years running the international division of Information Builders, Inc. (IBI), a $300 million software company based in New York.
At Xtium, Rode plans to transform how medium-sized companies leverage the cloud by helping them to first optimize their overall IT estate.
“Most companies struggle to lower the cost of running IT, and ensuring that they are not overspending on infrastructure has become an overwhelming burden,” said Rode. “The typical cloud services model has been to migrate a client’s entire infrastructure to the vendor’s cloud. While that is economically beneficial to the vendor, it is not in the best long-term interests of the client. Xtium will become a leader in helping medium-sized companies rationalize, consolidate and optimize their IT infrastructure before we connect our cloud to their company. Once we have accomplished this, then Xtium will provide the most reliable approach for the on-going management of on-site and hosted IT services.”
About Xtium
Xtium is a leading enterprise software and solutions company innovating managed cloud hosting, online backup and virtual disaster recovery services. We offer companies the most secure virtual private cloud experience, with flexible architecture, allowing customers to remain in control. We are the only enterprise service company certified to deliver, SAP®, VMware® and Riverbed® technologies. To learn more, please visit http://www.xtium.com.
The Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Awards recognize technologies and vendors that have built cloud solutions that allow businesses small or large to remain active and productive under even the most challenging conditions, minimizing lost business opportunities.
“Purpose-built exclusively for IT service providers, the Intronis ECHOplatform serves as the foundation for our cloud backup and data recovery solution, providing a number of business-building benefits that will enable them to grow a more successful cloud services practice,” says Chuck DeLouis, VP, Product Management, Intronis. “Having a cloud backup and disaster recovery solution in place is something every business needs, but many haven’t fully deployed. The combination of our technology and our partners’ expertise provides the perfect solution for SMBs who are looking to protect their data and their business.”
Intronis ECHOplatform delivers the industry’s most secure, scalable, and comprehensive cloud backup and data recovery solution, and is available at unlimited and fixed-fee storage pricing per SMB account. Available exclusively for resale by IT channel partners, the Intronis ECHOplatform can also be easily rebranded and supports a variety of in-demand services, plug-ins, and extensions such as server and laptop imaging, VMware and Hyper-V, SQL and Exchange backup, and bare metal restore (BMR). In October, Intronis unveiled ECHOshare, a cloud-based file sync and collaboration solution to secure and simplify data sharing for SMBs.
“Recognizing excellence in the advancement of cloud computing, TMC is proud to announce the Intronis ECHOplatform as a winner of the Cloud Computing Backup and Disaster Recovery Award,” said Rich Tehrani, CEO, TMC. “Intronis is being honored for their achievement in bringing innovation to the market, while leveraging the latest technology trends.”
Channel partners who are interested in going unlimited with Intronis can visit www.intronis.com/nolimits or call Intronis at 800-569-0155.
About Cloud Computing Magazine
Published by TMC, a global, integrated media company that supports clients’ goals by building communities in print, online, and face to face, Cloud Computing magazine is the industry’s definitive source for all things cloud – from public, community, hybrid and private cloud to security and business continuity, and everything in between. This quarterly magazine published by TMC assesses the most important developments in cloud computing not only as they relate to IT, but to the business landscape as a whole.
About Intronis
Intronis provides world-class data protection solutions for small businesses, delivered exclusively through the IT channel. The Intronis ECHOplatform securely protects physical and virtual data with native support for physical imaging, VMware, Hyper-V, Exchange, and SQL, all through a re-brandable central management console that integrates with major RMM and PSA tools. Offered with unlimited and fixed-fee storage pricing per SMB account, IT service providers are able to rapidly grow revenue and scale profit. Through Intronis ECHOshare, channel partners can easily expand their IT services portfolio to include tightly integrated business-grade file sync and share. Learn more at www.intronis.com.
Josh Coates, CEO of Instructure, the company responsible for developing the cloud-based learning management system (LMS), Canvas, has been named the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ 2014 National Technology Award winner.
The EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award, a leading business award for entrepreneurs, encourages entrepreneurial activity and recognizes leaders and visionaries who demonstrate innovation, financial success and personal commitment as they create and build world-class businesses.
Coates was recognized for creating a company that has significantly disrupted the online education experience, transitioning Instructure from a traditional higher education company to a learning technology. Instructure is the company behind Canvas, an easy-to-use, cloud-based learning management system (LMS) that connects all the digital tools and resources teachers need into one simple place. Canvas offers educational applications across all academic levels, not just the traditional higher education space, and today Coates is leading the way in bringing this type of system to professional development and training. Coates was honored at the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards gala, the culminating event of the EY Strategic Growth Forum® in Palm Springs, Calif. The Forum is a gathering for the nation’s leading CEOs of high-growth, market-leading companies. Awards were given in 10 additional categories.
The EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Award winners were selected by an independent panel of judges and from more than 250 regional award recipients.
“Josh Coates has an incredible ability to read markets, know exactly what they need, and capitalize on that need with an innovative product,” said Mike Kacsmar, EY Entrepreneur Of The Year Americas Program Director. “His entrepreneurial spirit and visionary approach to the LMS market – a market that had not seen much innovation in the previous 10 years – has allowed him to push Instructure and its products into new territories – far beyond what others and competitors thought possible.”
A Path of Success
Coates came out of academia to take on the LMS market, putting a long history of entrepreneurship to work. He founded his first company, Scale Eight, a scalable storage software tech company, in 1999. He sold it to Intel four years later. He went on to found Berkeley Data Systems (Mozy.com) in 2005, which he sold as well. The lessons he learned during these experiences, such as how to fundraise and scale a company from the ground up, gave him the tools needed to push Instructure to become a major player in the education space.
When Coates joined Instructure, the company had zero revenue, but in just 30 months under Coates’ leadership, the company has soared. In 2011, Instructure launched Canvas, its cloud-based learning management system, and three years later, it boasts more than 11 million active users.
Fostering Innovation
Coates recognized that in order to build a game-changing company, he would need the industry’s best talent. At Instructure, he built a leadership team that possessed the credentials and experience to navigate the competitive education technology landscape and the ability to foster a culture of open collaboration and creativity – a skill he believes is critical to innovation. Coates opts not to sit in a corner office; instead, his desk is among others to allow him to partake in the collaboration and innovation happening at Instructure.
Coates didn’t stop innovating with the creation of the system itself. Instead, Instructure has made a name for itself with Canvas Network’s groundbreaking courses, including a recent partnership with University of California, Irvine and cable channel AMC to teach science, math and health via a Massive Open Online Course based on “The Walking Dead” TV show.
EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2014 National Technology finalists:
In addition to Coates, the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year National Technology finalists were:
Alex Kazerani, Chairman and CEO and James Segil, President, of EdgeCast Networks, based in Santa Monica, Calif.; John Marshall, CEO and Founder, AirWatch, based in Atlanta, Ga; and Dwight Merriman, co-founder and Chairman, MongoDB, based in New York, NY.
EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2014 National Overall Award winner
Dr. David Hung of Medivation was named the EY Entrepreneur Of The YearTM 2014 National Overall Award winner.
Video and photos
To view photos of all of the Entrepreneur Of The Year winners, please visit ey.com/us/eoy.
Sponsors
Founded and produced by EY, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards are nationally sponsored in the US by SAP America and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
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Deloitte released the 2014 Technology Fast 500™, an annual ranking of the fastest growing North America companies in the technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and clean technology sectors. Awardees are selected for this honor based on percentage fiscal year revenue growth from 2009 to 2013. For the nineteenth consecutive year, the software sector has been the most visible on this list, with over 230 companies being from this space alone.
Skytap, the leading provider of cloud-based dev/test environments to the enterprise, ranked 105th fastest growing company on Deloitte’s 2014 Technology Fast 500™ with a growth rate of 1,141 percent.
Kareo, the leading provider of cloud-based medical office software and services for small medical practices, ranked 114 overall, growing 1,040 percent during the five-year ranking period. Kareo ranked in the top three in healthcare IT and 14 in Southern California. Previously Kareo ranked 156th as a Technology Fast 500 award winner for 2013.
AtTask, a cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solution that helps marketing, IT, and other enterprise teams conquer the chaos of excessive email, redundant status meetings, and disconnected tools, ranked 348 overall, growing 239 percent during the period from 2009 and 2013. AtTask was recognized on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 in 2013, ranking 344.
Chelmsford, Mass. (PRWEB) November 06, 2014 – Intronis, Inc., a provider of world-class backup and data protection solutions for the IT channel, today announced that it has been recognized by CRN Magazine for its partner program excellence and marketing leadership.
Intronis was named to the first annual CRN Cloud Partner Program Guide. This new resource offers solution providers a valuable resource for locating and exploring the IT industry’s top cloud technologies, programs, and offerings, and a way to connect with leading cloud organizations to improve their business.
In addition to being recognized for its partner enablement efforts, Aaron Dun, Intronis’ Chief Marketing Officer, was selected by the editors of CRN for the 2014 list of “100 People You Don’t Know But Should.” This annual list honors the unsung heroes who might not be household names, but work tirelessly to create, promote and manage the programs and policies that support the continued success of the IT channel. Since joining Intronis in 2013, Aaron and his team have unleashed several disruptive campaigns and initiatives, among the most notable being Intronis Data Loss Gremlins, the new Intronis ECHOplatform, and the Intronis U2 Pricing Plan, which declared an end to per gigabyte pricing by introducing an unlimited, flat fee pricing model for cloud backup and data protection. The “100 People You Don’t Know But Should” list is featured in the October issue of CRN and can be viewed online at http://www.crn.com.
“Providing our channel partners with the technology, support, and business enablement resources they need to thrive in today’s market is what we do best,” says Rick Faulk, Chairman and CEO, Intronis. “We are pleased to see the Intronis Partner Program named among the industry’s top Cloud Partner Programs, and honored to see Aaron recognized by CRN for his leadership and his team’s creativity and marketing execution.”
Earlier this year, Intronis launched the Intronis ECHOplatform. Delivering the industry’s most secure, scalable, and comprehensive cloud backup and data recovery solution, the Intronis ECHOplatform is available at a flat, monthly cost for unlimited cloud and local storage per SMB site, through the Intronis U2 Pricing Plan. Available exclusively for resale by IT channel partners, the Intronis ECHOplatform can also be easily rebranded and supports a variety of in-demand services, plug-ins, and extensions such as server and laptop imaging, VMware and Hyper-V, SQL and Exchange backup, and bare metal restore (BMR). In October, Intronis unveiled Intronis ECHOshare, a cloud-based file sync and collaboration solution to secure and simplify data sharing for SMBs.
“Cloud computing is a game-changing technology, and it’s imperative that the IT channel be able to quickly identify those organizations most deeply committed to helping solution providers grow their cloud-related revenue,” said Robert Faletra, CEO of The Channel Company, publisher of CRN. “Each cloud provider and vendor noted by the CRN editors has been chosen based on its robust cloud partner program, as well as the unique and enthusiastic ways in which it has embraced the channel as a go-to-market strategy.”
The Cloud Partner Program Guide is featured in the October issue of CRN and can be viewed online at http://bit.ly/CRNPPG2014. CRN’s 2014 coverage of “100 People You Don’t Know, but Should” can be viewed at http://bit.ly/CRN100Intronis.
Channel partners who are interested in going unlimited with Intronis can visit http://www.intronis.com/nolimits or call Intronis at 800-569-0155.
About The Channel Company
The Channel Company is the channel community’s trusted authority for growth and innovation, with established brands including CRN, XChange Events, IPED, and SharedVue. For more than three decades, we have leveraged our proven and leading-edge platforms to deliver prescriptive sales and marketing solutions for the technology channel. The Channel Company provides Communication, Recruitment, Engagement, Enablement, Demand Generation and Intelligence services to drive technology partnerships. Learn more at http://www.thechannelcompany.com.
About Intronis
Intronis offers world-class data protection solutions to the IT channel. The Intronis ECHOplatform securely protects physical and virtual data with native support for physical imaging, VMware, Hyper-V, Exchange, and SQL, all through a re-brandable central management console that integrates with major RMM and PSA tools. Offered with a simple fixed storage price for “Unlimited Cloud, Unlimited Local storage,” IT service providers are able to rapidly grow revenue and scale profit. Through Intronis ECHOshare, channel partners can easily expand their IT services portfolio to include tightly integrated business-grade file sync and share. Learn more at http://www.intronis.com.
DEDHAM, Mass. — October 31, 2014 — Sonian, an early innovator in cloud-based data archiving, today announced that Board of Directors member Daniel Demmer will serve as interim Chief Executive Officer. Demmer succeeds Jeff Dickerson, who has resigned as CEO and Chairman after four years with the company.
“We are thankful for Jeff’s leadership and wish him the best in the next phase of his career,” said Demmer. “Sonian has undergone a tremendous transformation and will continue to focus strategically on growing revenue and providing our partners and customers with industry-leading cloud archiving solutions. I look forward to working even more closely with the Sonian team to provide strategic guidance and leadership during the company’s next phase of growth.”
While Dickerson’s departure is a loss for Sonian, it comes as the company has just completed its best quarter in its seven-year history. The company also just expanded its offerings to include an archiving service for Microsoft Lync instant messages last month.
As interim CEO, Demmer will also spearhead the search for a new CEO and will work with Sonian’s executive team to facilitate a smooth leadership transition while overseeing the company’s operations.
Demmer brings to Sonian deep technology experience and success. He is currently the operating partner at OpenView Venture Partners, an expansion-stage venture capital firm focused on providing technology companies with operational support. He has more than 25 years of experience as a leader in business management and corporate finance, having served as a president, COO, CFO and Board Member in high-growth software enterprises. Demmer was previously president of Endeca Technologies, where he led the venture-backed, information analytics software company on a path of rapid revenue growth and profitability. Endeca was acquired by Oracle Corporation in late 2011.
“I’m truly grateful to have had the opportunity to lead a company that helped pioneer cloud archiving,” said Dickerson. “Our accomplishments over the past several years have helped to make Sonian one of the leading cloud archiving providers. The company is well-positioned to grab market share and continue to accelerate its growth across the globe.”
About Sonian
An early innovator in cloud-based archiving, Sonian preserves, protects and presents the world’s information. More than 17,000 customers in 40 countries trust Sonian’s secure platform and fast and accurate search to retain and retrieve valuable data and to protect the intellectual property in business email. Sonian manages more than 20 billion objects in the cloud; every day, 17 million new documents are uploaded to Sonian’s cloud archives, which can run on any of the world’s five largest public clouds. Boasting strong partnerships with the world’s leading technology companies, Sonian combines innovative technology with deep archiving expertise to satisfy customers of all sizes and industries. For more information, please visit www.sonian.com.
Los Angeles, October 28, 2014 — uSamp, the technology leader in providing targeted audiences for global consumer and business insights, today announced the promotion of Scott Stein to vice president, research solutions. Stein will manage the North American sales team and is responsible for growing the Company’s sample business, including automation and mobile solutions within key accounts in the market research space. He will report directly to Ted Bouzakis, executive vice president and head of North American sales.
The Company today also announced the appointment of Alan Mavretish, senior director, research solutions and the return of Scott Jones as senior director, retail solutions.
“With the growing market demand for uSamp’s quality sample and services, we are thrilled to promote Scott Stein,” said Bouzakis. “We’re also excited to further expand our sales team with the return of Scott Jones and the arrival of Alan Mavretish. These highly skilled market research executives each possess a strong track record selling online technologies and quantitative data collection solutions.”
Stein was appointed area vice president, survey solutions upon joining uSamp in 2012, and spearheaded the rapid growth of the Midwest territory while managing the central region team. Stein started in the industry nearly ten years ago with Greenfield Online, and has held various roles, including senior director, global accounts and area vice president, client development. Stein is a graduate of Michigan State University where he earned two Bachelor of Arts degrees in advertising and studio arts.
Alan Mavretish joins uSamp from M3 Global Research, where he served as vice president, market research sales. Prior to M3, he was vice president of client development at itracks, a global data collection supplier and pioneer in online qualitative platforms. Mavretish earned his Bachelor of Science in business administration from Duquesne University. He is a member of the MRA, PMRG and American Marketing Association, formerly serving two terms as vice president of membership for the Pittsburgh chapter.
Scott Jones returns to uSamp as senior director of retail solutions, responsible for managing the Company’s existing wholesale partnerships, as well as growing and expanding its wholesale footprint. Jones initially joined the Company as one of the first uSamp employees in 2008 focusing on wholesale accounts as account executive and then as director of wholesale solutions. He previously served as account executive with Greenfield Online, where he worked with major retail accounts as well as outside sample suppliers.
About uSamp
uSamp is the technology leader in market research providing automation, mobile and global sample and insight solutions for marketers. Based in Los Angeles, with five offices in the United States, Europe and Asia, uSamp has been recognized in Inc.’s 500|5000 exclusive ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. For more information visit www.usamp.com.
