Mirantis, a pure-play OpenStack cloud provider , announced an expansion of its management team with several key employees, including a new COO and CFO. The OpenStack cloud company closed 2015 with record sales, including 127 corporate customers in production deployments across the financial, telecommunications, media and retail sectors .
The expanding the management team follows a pivotal year for Mirantis cloud provider. The company announced a strategic technology and investment collaboration with Intel as part of a capital injection of $ 100 million with a new investor Goldman Sachs and existing investors August Capital, Insight Venture Partners, Ericsson, Sapphire Ventures ( formerly SAP Ventures) and WestSummit Capital.
key employees' Mirantis include:
- CFO Rik Thorbecke - Mr. Thorbecke was a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers and most recently director financial a number of startups such as Plastic Logic and Meltwater. He also held senior positions in finance at Equinix, Levi Strauss and Electronic Arts. At Mirantis, Mr. Thorbecke plans to level-up global financial strategy and business operations, human resources, legal, administration and IT operations to be up to the demands of Wall Street.
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as COO, Jim Dvorkin actively oversee Mirantis engineering, professional services and customer support organizations
COO, Jim Dvorkin -. Mr. Dvorkin brings 15 years of technology and operational experience of construction companies in the area of cloud computing. He served on the board of directors Mirantis for 5 years as a "popular" Silicon Valley entrepreneur and innovator. As COO, Dvorkin actively oversees Mirantis engineering, professional services and customer support organizations. Previously, Jim served as CTO at Five9, a cloud-based call center software company that went public in 2014, where he managed software development, data center operations, customer support and Implementation.
- EVP / GM, Enterprise Cloud Business Unit, Chris Keene - Mr. Keene joined the BMC cloud provider, where he led the group of clouds and automation of $ 220 million. Previously, he sold his PaaS enterprise open source software, WaveMaker, VMware, and then led the spinout of Big Data Fast as Pivotal $ 400 million initiative. A Mirantis, Keene will work on accelerating the growth of the company's revenues by focusing on the commercial value of Mirantis private cloud solutions.
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At Mirantis, Rik Thorbecke provides global financial level-up strategy and the cloud provider's operations, human resources, legal, the administration and IT activities
EVP / GM, services, Parvesh Sethi -. Mr. Sethi joined Cisco Mirantis, where he led a several billion dollar global professional services organization of over 8,000 members. Its role includes key growth initiatives such as scanning / IoT, cloud, security, software platforms and managed / hosted services. A Mirantis, Sethi lead the long-term strategy, the growth and transformation of the global services business
- SVP Worldwide Sales, Brand Teegardin -. Mr. Teegardin was a huge success during a 20 year career in the software industry, according Mirantis. He has contributed to the significant growth in market-leading companies, PTC, and NICE Systems Inc., where he led teams responsible for over $ 500 in annual revenue. Before Mirantis, Mr. Teegardin led reconstruction effort StoredIQ, a Big Data governance Austin Texas-based company. According Mirantis, StoredIQ has doubled its turnover and has become one of the most successful acquisitions in the history of IBM under the direction of Teegardin. Since joining Mirantis in March 2015, Teegardin led the team in a "record" high turnover of year the line.
"Our outstanding growth is a reflection of the tremendous market opportunity we have before us. As AWS continues to disrupt the market infrastructure of $ 150 billion in cloud OpenStack will rise as the only viable open source alternative, "said Mirantis CEO Alex Freedland . "We aim to make the best Mirantis OpenStack OpenStack platform for cloud applications development and running, and our management team is increasingly critical to success. We will invest in innovation upstream, the construction of our technology partner programs, and solve the needs of key customers in OpenStack such as ease of use. "
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