ALISO VIEJO, Calif., (PRWEB) July 30, 2012
Founder, Lynn Shourds, resigns from President/CTO role at HEROware
Lynn Shourds will be stepping down from his position as President and Chief Technology Officer. Lynn is the Founder of HEROware and created a product line, market, and business using real-time replication technology from Double-Take Software to provide high-availability appliances to MSPs worldwide. Lynns vision led HEROware to become a major player in the vastly growing BDR space. Lynn will remain on the HEROware Board of Directors and will remain as one of HEROwares leading equity shareholders.
Lynn noted, Im looking forward to lending my talents to other arenas. Its an exciting time, both personally and professionally, as there are great opportunities lying out before me. I know HEROware will continue to be very successful and continue to provide all current and future customers with unprecedented local backup, high-availability and off-site disaster recovery solutions.
Bob Erickson, COO, Elected to HEROware Board of Directors
Bob Erickson, current Chief Operating Officer, will be joining the Board of Directors and expanding his responsibilities to oversee all of the companys investor relationships, including finalizing another round of funding. Bob brings his 25 years of global, operational and executive leadership honed during his Professional Services career at Accenture and Avanade to help drive the overall strategy and direction of HEROware towards an even more customer centric organization.
Rob Ryan Promoted to Executive Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Customer Service
Rob Ryan, current Director of Sales, has been promoted to become the companys new Executive Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Customer Service. Rob has been embedded on the front lines of HEROware for a year, listening to and building relationships with HEROwares customers. He has heard the customers perspective on what is needed to successfully compete as a company. Rob is a proven former CEO, who has successfully launched and grown multiple software & technology companies and will bring those 23 years of experience to bear on driving HEROware to deliver for its customers each day.
Paul Moore Promoted to VP of Professional Services & Customer Support
Long-time HEROware employee, Paul Moore, current Director of Technical Services, has been promoted to the new role of VP of Professional Services & Customer Support. Paul brings his decades of corporate IT experience to serving HEROware customers -from their point of view. Paul has sat on all sides of the IT sales and product table and that will help HEROware build out a Services organization to help its customers succeed.
Lynn Shourds commented,Ill greatly miss my team as many have been with me since the very beginning especially Paul, who has been the backbone of our organization behind the scenes all these years.
Additional Statement from the Board of Directors
The Board has listened to HEROwares hundreds of partners and fully understands the unique opportunity for HEROware to become an ever more responsive, proactive, customer focused company. It is making these announcements today, as testament to its daily commitment to current and future customers.
Finally, the Board expresses its deep gratitude to Lynn Shourds for his immense contributions and the foundation he established for HEROware to build upon as it looks forward to a dynamic 2012, and beyond.
About HEROware
HEROware Incorporated is a US Based, privately held, channel sales focused, Appliance Solution Company, in the Small Business to Medium Enterprise markets. HEROware markets an end to end platform of Backup, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity products that are sold by its channel customers through to end corporations and small businesses worldwide. Though the bulk of the companys business comes from the US, it has a growing presence in more than a Dozen countries, including Australia, Mexico, Portugal, Great Britain, and Singapore and beyond. The company has integrated and built upon the underlying offerings of its strategic Partners to create a low cost, high margin product suite for their customers. HEROware has long standing strategic alliances with industry leaders, Double-Take/Vision Solutions, Kaseya and Vembu. The company has developed a growing platform of products based around its belief in the hybrid (local and Cloud services) data protection model, as well as enabling its channel customers to single source all of their multiple BDR needs with great flexibility and choice. These include: Defender Appliances/Software Stack (BDR) for real time replication and high availability server protection, Secure Suite traditional Backup products, and our offsite Secure Cloud services product. Visit us at our website: http://www.heroware.com.
HEROware Board of Directors Announces Departure of Founder and Promotion of Key Employees
