Nachshon Draiman, Electric Cloud Names Bill Schmitt Vice President of Business
Development
Mountain View, CA (PRWEB) October 3, 2007 -- Electric Cloud ()®, a leading
provider of software production management solutions, today announced that Bill
Schmitt has joined the company's management team as vice president of business
development. Bill brings over 20 years of business development, marketing and
strategy experience to help build and grow Electric Cloud's ecosystem of
strategic partners in the software development market and to accelerate the
company's expansion into new vertical markets.
Electric Cloud's award-winning software production management solution ()helps
companies achieve substantial productivity and quality gains in their software
development process. The company's expanding list of partners can help
customers across a broad range of industries to build, test, package and deploy
software as an integrated part of an efficient, repeatable, and transparent
process.
"We've established a dominant position in software production management
within several vertical markets, and we are looking to quickly leverage this
success and extend our leadership into other markets through strategic
partnerships," said Mike Maciag, Electric Cloud's CEO. "Bill is uniquely
qualified to drive this effort, with strong business development experience and
depth in the software development market. We are pleased to have Bill on board
as part of Electric Cloud's growing management team."
Prior to joining Electric Cloud, Bill Schmitt was vice president of corporate
business development for Borland Software, where he helped establish Borland in
the Quality/Testing space and built a Java partner ecosystem for their CodeGear
division. Bill also designed and built new businesses at Autodesk (ADSK) and
Agile Software (AGIL), and he is also a former management consultant for both
A.T. Kearney and EDS. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering
from Vanderbilt University and MBA/MMM from the Kellogg School of Management
and the McCormick School of Engineering at Northwestern University.
Schmitt commented, "Software production is ripe for optimization as it is a
serious bottleneck in many large and small software development organizations.
Electric Cloud has superior technology that is applicable across all key
software development environments and market segments. The company is in an
ideal position to partner with a broad set of companies to comprehensively
address critical software development challenges for customers."
About Electric Cloud:
Electric Cloud is the leading provider of software production management
solutions that automate, accelerate, and analyze the software development
process. These include the software build, package, test and deploy processes.
The company's patented and award-winning solutions improve productivity in the
face of increasing product complexity and time-to-market pressures for software
delivery. Leading companies such as Qualcomm, Intuit, and LSI Logic rely on
Electric Cloud's Software Production Management solutions to change software
production from a liability to a competitive advantage. For customer inquiries
please contact Electric Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or ().
Note to editors: A digital headshot photograph of Bill Schmitt is available by
contacting Lisa Sheeran at sheeran @ earthlink.net.
© 2003-2007 Electric Cloud, Inc. All rights reserved. Electric Cloud,
ElectricInsight, ElectricAccelerator and Electric Make are trademarks of
Electric Cloud. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their
respective owners.
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