WP Engine, a platform web content management for SaaS websites and applications built on WordPress hosting, announced new appointments to its Board of Directors and improvements to its management team. Board of directors elected WP Engine both Rick Crandall, president of Enterprise Software CEO Roundtable with Mariano Dima, Global Chief Marketing Officer of HomeAway (NASDAQ: AWAY). As independent directors
Rick Crandall brings over 40 years of experience in enterprise software to WP Engine, including one of the longest tenures, 28, as CEO of Comshare . He is currently a director and advisor to a number of companies, from private companies to public companies like Diebold (NYSE: DBD) RR Donnelley (NYSE: RRD) and ChannelNet , a provider of software multi-channel e-commerce.
Rick Crandall is a founding partner of Arbor Partners, a venture capital firm focused on technology.
an IT service pioneer timeshare, Mr. Crandall Comshare founded in 1966 and took the company one of the first public calls for the technology industry, more and more Comshare to $ 130 million in revenues and expansion in 20 countries by the time he left in 1994 for the transition to strategist and VC-related activities. Crandall has served as technical advisor to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is a founding partner of Arbor Partners, a venture capital firm focused on technology. He was also a founding partner with Gideon Gartner to create the firm of industry analysts, Giga Information Group, where he served as president until it was sold to Forrester Research in 03.
Mariano Dima
As the CMO HomeAway , Mariano Dima oversees all global marketing business communication and brand initiatives for the online market for holiday rentals. Before HomeAway, he held management positions at some of the best known brands in the world, including PepsiCo Vodafone Levi Strauss & Co. and Visa europe - .. a career that spanned 20 years and several continents
Beth Weeks joined WP Engine to direct research and development
more recently, Mr. Dima served as CMO Visa Europe where he oversaw strategic brand marketing , brand communication, advertising, sponsorship and ideas and analyzes. His seven-year tenure with the company was punctuated by popular campaign integrated marketing Olympic 2012 "flows better with Visa Life.
In addition, the company has appointed Beth Weeks as SVP Research & Development responsible for delivering "innovative" software solutions WP Engine.
Beth Weeks joined WP Engine to direct research and development on 30 years of construction experience and key software development organizations. Before WP Engine, Ms. Weeks served for over a decade as Vice President of Engineering, based in Austin, price and optimization of company sales, Zilliant.
Before Zilliant, Ms. Weeks has played a leading role in Vignette Corporation (acquired by OpenText, NASDAQ :. OTEX) thanks to a considerable growth of small startup organization to a leading market the company in the web content management market
Mariano Dima, director of global marketing for HomeAway (NASDAQ: AWAY).
"Having the most accomplished and trusted advisors team of high-end management is critical for WP Engine to continue the incredible growth we have achieved in recent years" said Heather Brunner, CEO of WP Engine . "We are very pleased to welcome Rick Mariano and Beth to the WP Engine family. Their diverse backgrounds providing the enterprise software experience and unparalleled executive management, the prospect of a visionary on the future needs of the global commercialization and scale of expertise and infrastructure operations will be invaluable to WP Engine we seek to empower brands in their digital transformation. "
earlier in 2015, WP Engine set $ 23 million in funding , bringing the total venture investment in the business to 41 , $ 2 million . Today, 40,000 customers across 133 countries, entrepreneurs and small businesses to global enterprises like the giant semiconductor, AMD and the national railway network in Britain, Network Rail depend WP Engine infrastructure for their WordPress site.
Founded in 2010, WP Engine is based in Austin, Texas and has offices in San Francisco, California, San Antonio, Texas and London, England.
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