Akibia Strengthens Management Team in Response to Growing Customer Demand for IT Services Worldwide
August 27 2007 - 10:24AM
PR Newswire (US)
Names Scott Fiore Vice President of Global Data Center Support
Operations; Phil Harris Becomes Vice President of Global Sales;
Macie Whittington New Vice President of Global Channels and
Alliances WESTBOROUGH, Mass., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Akibia, a
leading independent IT services firm providing data center and
network security solutions, today announced executive appointments
that will continue to ensure consistent delivery of superior IT
support services to its global clients. The company has named Scott
Fiore Vice President of Global Data Center Support Operations, Phil
Harris Vice President of Global Sales, and Macie Whittington Vice
President of Global Channels and Alliances. Over 20 years Akibia
has built a strong foundation for supporting its global customer
base, many of which operate data centers distributed across
multiple geographies. Akibia's customer base runs mission-critical
applications on Sun, HP and Dell systems that require
high-availability support. Because of its international footprint,
the global focus of its client base, and the company's commitment
to meeting evolving customer needs, Akibia has aligned its
executive management team to support its truly global approach to
business. "As Akibia continues to build on its successes in helping
global organizations optimize, secure, manage and support their
mission-critical IT environments, these recent changes ensure we
maintain our high levels of customer satisfaction as our client
base rapidly expands," said Tom Tucker, president of Akibia. In his
new position, Mr. Fiore is responsible for overseeing Akibia's data
center support operations, including technical support, field
engineering, IT education and logistics. Mr. Harris leads Akibia's
Direct Sales organization responsible for creating relationships
with global businesses in industries such as financial services,
telecommunications, and technology. Under Ms. Whittington's
leadership, the Global Channels and Alliance team partners with
some of the world's leading technology and services organizations
to sell and deliver multivendor support and maintenance to their
end customers. All three executives held previous positions at
Akibia. Most recently Mr. Fiore directed Akibia's European data
center support team and prior to that was director of finance in
the US. As existing members of the executive management team, Mr.
Harris was previously Vice President of US Sales and Ms.
Whittington led the US operations group and was previously director
of strategic alliances. "Scott, Macie and Phil's knowledge of our
business and their combined ability to inspire collaboration among
partners, alliances, sales and operations in order to deliver the
best solutions for our customers will ensure we continue to be
successful in consistently delivering high-quality support to our
clients," added Tucker. About Akibia, Inc. Akibia provides
innovative IT solutions that enable leading companies worldwide to
optimize, secure, manage and support their mission-critical
infrastructure. As an independent advisor, Akibia partners with its
customers to deliver solutions that improve the availability and
performance of their data center and security infrastructure.
Combining expert consulting, integration and support services with
world-class customer service, Akibia helps IT organizations
maximize the value of their existing infrastructure, while
mitigating risk and reducing complexity. Founded as Polaris Service
in 1988 and headquartered in Massachusetts, Akibia is an
independent services company with offices throughout the United
States and Europe. Akibia is a registered trademark of Akibia, Inc.
All other product and company names mentioned are the property of
their respective owners and are mentioned for identification
purposes only. DATASOURCE: Akibia, Inc. CONTACT: Stephanie Beagan
of Akibia, Inc., +1-508-621-4753, Web site: http://www.akibia.com/
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