Appistry, the leading provider cloud platform software for the enterprise, today announced the appointment of Michael Pinette as vice president of business development. Mr. Pinette joins the company at a time of explosive growth, and in his role will drive the expansion of the company'ss channel partnerships and strategic alliances.
Applying his substantial industry experience as a business development and sales executive, Mr. Pinette most recently led Zend Technologies's strategic alliances and channel efforts as
vice president of business development. At Zend, a PHP applications company, he defined, drove and closed strategic business relationships with IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, MySQL, Adobe,
Ubuntu, Parallels and several regional systems integrators. These relationships were instrumental in validating PHP usage in the enterprise and expanded the Zend ecosystem and business
opportunities in key market segments. Mr. Pinette was also responsible for the creation and expansion of the professional services and consulting team globally at Zend and orchestrated
key solution deals with France Telecom, Portugal Telecom, BT, Verizon/AMP'sd, PayPal, Filemaker and others.
Prior to joining Zend, Mr. Pinette served in executive positions at Actional Corporation (acquired by Progress Software), with responsibility for company partnerships and OEM
relationships. Earlier, he served as VP of business development and marketing at Infogain, Inc., and senior director of business development, strategic alliances, at TIBCO Finance
Technology, Inc. (acquired by Reuters, Inc.) where he forged strategic relationships with IBM, Adobe, Siebel, Amdocs, Peoplesoft, Veritas, BEA, Tibco, Sun, Microsoft and a host of
financial services application solution providers including systems integrators. Mike also drove and delivered the pre-IPO investment from Sun Microsystems for Tibco Softwares very
successful IPO. During his successful career Mr. Pinette also held a variety of sales and marketing executive positions with Informix Software, Inc., and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Appistry has developed excellent technology, a winning value proposition and early leadership in the rapidly-expanding cloud computing arena, said Mr. Pinette. It'ss a company poised for
tremendous growth and I'sm excited to join a company at the heart of the cloud ecosystem.
With his deep experience with disruptive technologies, his talents at developing strategic relationships and his knack for closing deals, Mike is the epitome of a business development
leader, said Kevin Haar, chief executive officer of Appistry. Mike'ss industry experience and business relationships are what we need to realize the promise of Appistry'ss powerful
solutions.
About Appistry
Appistry simplifies cloud computing for the enterprise, opening the door to a more agile and scalable IT environment. Appistry'ss CloudIQ application platform addresses the complex
challenges of delivering and managing a wide variety of applications and services for both public and private clouds. The company'ss platform is designed specifically for cloud
environments, delivering transparent scalability, application portability, and automated management to new and existing applications. Appistry customers include FedEx, GeoEye, Lockheed
Martin and Northrop Grumman. For more information about Appistry, please visit http://www.appistry.com.