Azul Systems Adds Three Industry Veterans to Its Executive Team
November 28 2012 - 6:00AM
Marketwired
Azul Systems, Inc. (Azul), the award-winning leader in Java runtime
scalability, today announced the hiring of three new vice
presidents. Global enterprise sales executive Bruce Ericson is the
new SVP of worldwide sales, Sun Microsystems veteran Anya Barski is
the new VP of engineering, and marketing executive Howard Green is
the new VP of marketing.
Azul Systems experienced strong growth in 2012, particularly in
its focus sectors of finance, retail, insurance and SaaS. Azul has
hired Ericson, Barski, and Green to support existing customers,
boost the capabilities of the company's cutting-edge technologies
and facilitate continued worldwide sales expansion.
"We're very pleased to add Bruce, Anya, and Howard to our
executive team," said Scott Sellers, President and CEO of Azul
Systems. "All three have proven success and expertise in their
fields, as well as strong strategic vision and technical acumen.
I'm excited to have these new leaders as part of our executive team
to help guide Azul as we continue our rapid growth."
Bruce Ericson, Senior Vice President of Sales, is an enterprise
sales veteran with extensive experience running global sales teams
that sell complex enterprise software products, including
low-latency messaging middleware, infrastructure and SaaS
solutions. Ericson has a solid track record of scaling sales teams
and achieving aggressive sales targets. He has served as the vice
president of global sales in companies including NetBase Solutions,
Real Time Innovations, Proceler and VenturCom (now Citrix). Ericson
holds an MBA from Northeastern University and a BSEE from the
University of Illinois.
Anya Barski, Vice President of Engineering, joins Azul as a
proven Java industry veteran. Barski has nearly 20 years of
multinational experience in a variety of engineering, development,
QA, and customer support roles. Most recently, Barski served as COO
of Advenira Enterprises, a breakthrough thin film technology
company. Before that, she was the CEO of Yandex Labs and VP of
Engineering at Yandex, Russia's largest Internet and search engine
company. Prior to Yandex, Barski spent 11 years at Sun Microsystems
in a variety of leadership roles building and running Java software
engineering teams. During her tenure at Sun, she founded the St.
Petersburg Development Center and developed it into a major global
engineering site. Barski holds an MS in Physics from St. Petersburg
State Polytechnical University.
Howard Green, Vice President of Marketing, has been with Azul
since 2010 as senior director of marketing. Howard has more than 20
years of experience in marketing, public relations, and business
development in Silicon Valley companies. Howard joined Azul from
in-memory transaction processing pioneer Kabira Technologies (now
Tibco), where he managed business development and partner programs.
Howard also co-founded two startups and managed corporate and
product marketing at companies including iPass, Corsair
Communications and MicroModule Systems. He holds an MA from
Columbia University and a BA from Columbia College.
About Azul Systems Azul Systems delivers
high-performance and elastic Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) with
unsurpassed scalability, manageability and production-time
visibility. Designed and optimized for x86 servers and
enterprise-class workloads, Azul's Zing JVM is the only Java
runtime that supports highly consistent and pauseless execution for
throughput-intensive and QoS-sensitive Java applications. Azul's
products enable organizations to dramatically simplify Java
deployments with fewer instances, greater response time
consistency, and dramatically better operating costs.
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