BOSTON, March 26, 2020 /PRNewswire/
-- Thought Industries, the world's leading B2B customer
training platform provider, today announced the hiring of
Todd Boes, a veteran product
development executive, to the role of chief product officer. Boes
will work directly with CEO Barry
Kelly to lead the development of the platform lifecycle. His
role will include planning the strategic roadmap and vision for the
Thought Industries platform, market research, ongoing feature
innovation, and overseeing the product team.
Boes has more than 25 years of experience with enterprise-grade
products, platforms and services in both startups and Fortune 500
software companies. Prior to joining Thought Industries, he was CPO
at Genscape, an IoT data analytics and predictive insights platform
for the financial services and global energy markets. At Genscape,
Boes created the vision, strategy and roadmap for unifying and
modernizing the platform across business units while aligning
company leaders and key stakeholders behind the shared vision. His
work contributed to the company's sale to Verisk Analytics for
$364M.
"Todd's experience in building and scaling product teams at
innovative, high-growth companies is a perfect fit for our
direction," said Barry Kelly, CEO,
Thought Industries. "Todd will help us lead the market and continue
to deliver on our mission to support our customers' success with a
platform to create, manage and deliver exceptional learning
experiences to scale their customer education and business
growth."
Prior to Genscape, Boes led product teams at Swirl Networks,
Yahoo!, Macromedia (acquired by Adobe) and Maven Networks (acquired
by Yahoo!), among other California
and Boston-based SaaS
organizations. While at Maven, he led the company through a
successful sale to Yahoo! and grew the video advertising business
into a $200M/year business.
"Barry has brought the company to a truly exciting place, and
I'm thrilled to be joining such an innovative team," said Boes.
"The solutions we're planning to launch this year will build on our
industry leadership and continue to help our clients retain
customers, reduce costs and stay connected as companies look for
ways to transition to more remote learning and workforces,
globally. Our platform will continue to help customers sell more
training and support new and existing clients as they seek to get
more out of their existing content and product sales."
About Thought Industries
Thought Industries powers the business of learning by providing
the world's leading B2B customer training platform. The company was
founded in 2014 around the core belief that online learning
experiences should be modern, intuitive, engaging, and scalable.
Today, our growing team builds and maintains the only learning
solution with completely native tools and integrations that drive
higher engagement, learner proficiency, and retention rates for our
customers. Headquartered in Boston, Thought Industries has offices across
North America and Europe. For more information,
visit www.thoughtindustries.com and follow us on LinkedIn
and Twitter.
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