WANdisco Plc Board Appointments (8891Q)
December 05 2016 - 02:46AM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 8891Q
WANdisco Plc
05 December 2016
For immediate release 5 December 2016
WANdisco plc
("WANdisco" or the "Company")
Board appointments
Appointment of Karl Monaghan as Non-executive Director and
Erik Miller as Chief Financial Officer and Board Director
WANdisco (LSE: WAND), a leading provider of enterprise-ready,
non-stop cloud software solutions, announces the following board
appointments.
Karl Upton Monaghan (54) has been appointed to the Board as
Non-executive Director of the Company with immediate effect. Mr
Monaghan is currently Managing Partner at Ashling Capital LLP,
which he founded in December 2002, to provide consultancy services
to both quoted and private companies.
Prior to founding Ashling Capital, Mr Monaghan has worked in
Corporate Finance for Robert W Baird, Credit Lyonnais Securities,
Bank of Ireland, Johnson Fry and BDO Stoy Hayward. Additionally, he
trained as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in Dublin and holds a
Bachelor of Commerce from University College Dublin.
Mr Monaghan brings a wealth of capital markets and board
experience and is currently a Non-executive Director of AIM
companies CareTech Holdings plc and Sabien Technology Group
plc.
In addition, the Company is pleased to announce that Erik Edwin
Miller (56) has rejoined the Company on a full time basis as Chief
Financial Officer and reappointed as a Board Director. Mr Miller
has held the role of Interim SVP of Finance at WANDisco since 10
October 2016 and will assume his new role with immediate
effect.
Mr Miller has held a number of senior financial positions, most
recently serving between 2010 and 2016 as Chief Financial Officer
of Envivio, Inc., a NASDAQ listed, multinational software-based
video processing company. During his tenure, Envivio tripled
revenues and successfully listed on NASDAQ in 2012. Envivio was
purchased by Ericsson AB in October 2015.
Other notable roles include serving between 2008 and 2010 as
Chief Financial Officer of SigNav Pty. Ltd, a multinational
developer of GPS-based timing solutions for the telecommunications
industry based in Sydney, Australia, and serving between 1994 and
2000 as Chief Financial Officer of Meridian Data, Inc., a developer
of network attached storage solutions, a NASDAQ listed company. Mr
Miller's international business experience has also brought him to
the UK, notably between 2003 and 2005 where he served as Senior
Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at BlueArc
Corporation: a multinational developer of enterprise Network
Attached Storage systems, based in Bracknell, UK and San Jose,
California.
David Richards, Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chairman of
WANdisco, commented:
"We are delighted to welcome Karl to the Board of WANdisco and
believe he brings a good combination of advising high growth
companies alongside extensive UK capital markets exposure. His
appointment, along with the return of Erik Miller as full time CFO
and Board Director is a strong statement of intent by WANdisco as
we look to aggressively grow our business in the medium term.
"I look forward to working alongside both Karl and Erik as we
continue to progress and execute on our strategic ambitions."
Save as disclosed above, there are no other details to be
disclosed regarding the appointment of Erik Miller and Karl
Monaghan as required under Schedule 2(g) of the AIM Rules for
Companies.
For further information, please contact:
WANdisco plc via Vigo Communications
David Richards, CEO and Interim
Chairman
+44 (0)207 830
Vigo Communications 9700
Jeremy Garcia / Fiona Henson
/ Antonia Pollock
www.vigocomms.com
+44 (0)207 597
Investec (Joint Broker and NOMAD) 4000
Christopher Baird / Dominic
Emery
UBS (Joint Broker) +44 (0)207 567
Rahul Luthra / Sandip Dhillon 8000
About WANdisco
WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is the world leader in Active Transactional
Data Replication(TM). Its patented technology provides continuous
consistent access to changing data anytime and anywhere with no
downtime and no disruption. WANdisco's patented technology serves
crucial high availability (HA) requirements, including migration to
cloud, Hadoop Big Data and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM),
Subversion, Git and Gerrit.
WANdisco works directly with Fortune 1000 companies around the
world and in all sectors to ensure their data, whether it is
on-premise or in the cloud, gives them the real insight they need.
WANdisco has an OEM with IBM and is also partnered with Amazon Web
Services, Cisco, Google Cloud Platform, Hewlett Packard Enterprise,
Microsoft Azure and Oracle to resell its patented technology.
WANdisco is committed to the ODPi Interoperable Compliance Program
to ensure its products are interoperable across a wider range of
commercial Apache(TM) Hadoop(R) Platforms.
For additional information, please visit www.wandisco.com.
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