WANdisco Plc Board Update (6400X)
February 23 2017 - 2:02AM
UK Regulatory
TIDMWAND
RNS Number : 6400X
WANdisco Plc
23 February 2017
23 February 2017
WANdisco plc
("WANdisco" or the "Company")
Board update
WANdisco (LSE: WAND), the world leader in Active Data
Replication(TM) today announces the following board changes.
Dr Yeturu Aahlad, 58, who is part of the core team that founded
WANdisco in 2005, is appointed to the board with immediate effect.
Dr Aahlad is a pioneer in the field of active-active data
replication, a patented process that sits at the heart of
WANdisco's core technology, WANdisco Fusion. Dr Aahlad has a Ph.D
in the field of Distributed Computing from the University of Texas,
Austin and a BS in Electronics and Communication from IIT
Madras.
In addition, the Company announces that James (Jim) Campigli,
Chief Operating Officer, Head of Marketing, Co-Founder and member
of the board will be stepping down with immediate effect to pursue
other business interests. He leaves with the board's thanks for the
significant contribution he has made since WANdisco's
inception.
David Richards, Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chairman of
WANdisco, commented:
"We are delighted to welcome Dr Aahlad to the board. As a
founder and pioneer of WANdisco's patented technology, he is a
natural addition and we believe he offers a wealth of industry
experience which will be invaluable as we implement our near term
growth strategy. I would also like to thank Jim for his tremendous
contribution in the development of WANdisco and wish him well in
all his future endeavours."
Dr Aahlad currently has a beneficial holding of 2,825,021
Ordinary Shares in the Company representing 7.62% of the Company's
issued share capital.
There are no further disclosures required relating to Dr
Aahlad's appointment in accordance with Schedule 2(g) of the AIM
Rules.
For further information, please contact:
WANdisco plc via Vigo Communications
David Richards, Chief Executive
Officer and Interim Chairman
Erik Miller, Chief Financial
Officer
+44 (0)207 830
Vigo Communications 9707
Jeremy Garcia / Fiona Henson
/ Antonia Pollock
www.vigocomms.com
+44 (0)207 710
Stifel (Joint Broker and Nomad) 7600
Fred Walsh / Neil Shah / Ben
Maddison / Rajpal Padam
UBS (Joint Broker) +44 (0)207 567
Rahul Luthra / Sandip Dhillon 8000
About WANdisco
WANdisco (LSE: WAND) is the world leader in Active 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.
This information is provided by RNS
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