Trigence, a leader in virtualization at the application level, today announced the addition of Frank Foti as Director of Consulting Services. Foti brings more than two decades of hands-on, customer service and consulting experience and will lead Trigence’s newly launched Consulting Services Group.  In this role, Foti will work with his team to deliver product customization and integration expertise through each phase of the customer lifecycle.

“We launched a new consulting group as part of a larger initiative to support our customers through each critical phase of planning, knowledge gathering and adoption,”   said John Hamilton, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Trigence. “Today’s customers who are trying to build a utility computing environment expect much more than just a product, they expect technology vendors to make an investment in their company and work closely with them well beyond the point of sale. Frank’s leadership coupled with his expansive background will prove invaluable as we meet this increasing customer demand.”

Prior to joining Trigence, Foti was Director of Consulting Services for EXENET, a professional services organization, where he managed the implementation of end-to-end virtualization solutions including application, server, storage and network virtualization. Before EXENET, Foti was Global Citrix Manager at Pfizer Pharmaceuticals.

Foti also held various management positions at Fleet Bank where he implemented and supported business critical real-time systems and was instrumental in rebuilding the company’s data center after the 9/11 disaster. Additionally, Foti served in the U.S.A.F. as a systems engineer, building and supporting mission critical environments during the Gulf War.

Foti is a graduate of Rutgers University, with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in management information systems.