Virtual Bridges, Inc. today
announced it has appointed technology industry veteran Jon Senger as
chief strategy officer, and Bradley Sanford as vice president of
corporate development and strategic alliances. Virtual Bridges also
named Cole Crawford to its advisory board, further expanding the
company’s
leadership team.
Each executive brings significant industry experience in
virtualization, consumerization, cloud computing, OpenStack and BYOD
initiatives to their respective roles.
An expert technologist, Senger is responsible for shaping Virtual
Bridges’ vision, identifying new market opportunities and enhancing the
company’s competitive position. He joins Virtual Bridges after spending
the last six years at Dell, most recently as CTO of Emerging
Technologies where he worked in the office of the CIO developing
innovative strategies to support the company’s cloud computing,
virtualization and BYOD programs. In this role, Senger introduced a
primary compute BYOD solution as well as various mobile productivity
solutions, designed and deployed the OpenStack private cloud within Dell
IT, and led numerous corporate development activities.
Sanford brings a wealth of consumerization and user experience
expertise to his role at Virtual Bridges. As vice president of corporate
development and strategic alliances, he is responsible for global
market development, including building and strengthening the company’s
eco-system partnerships. Sanford joins the company from Dell, where he
spent nearly 14 years in various leadership roles across software
development, business operations, audit and emerging technology
strategy. He also managed large, complex IT projects at Interim IT and
Continental Airlines.
Crawford is an industry thought leader on cloud APIs, virtualization,
OpenStack and storage. He currently serves as chief operating officer
at the Open Compute Foundation where he is focused on building efficient
computing infrastructures at a low cost. In addition, Crawford serves
as an advisor for the Linux Foundation. Previous roles include director
of strategic alliances for Nebula, Inc., CTO at Autonomic Resources and
IT strategist at Dell.
“Virtual Bridges is on a mission to disrupt the end-user computing
market and Senger, Sanford and Crawford are highly-regarded and
well-respected leaders who will make an immediate impact,” said Sam
Cece, CEO of Virtual Bridges. “These three leaders bring an incredible
amount of industry experience across virtualization, OpenStack,
consumerization, BYOD and cloud computing programs that will help take
Virtual Bridges to the next level, driving the development of new VDI
solutions and business strategies that deliver greater value to our
customers.”
Senger, Sanford and Crawford follow the appointment of Jack Angelo as
vice president of worldwide services, and Todd Middlebrook as vice
president of product management.
Virtual Bridges’ desktop-as-a-service private cloud solution improves
security and mobility across organizations by enabling IT professionals
to easily deploy, configure and manage the end user computing
experience. As consumerization continues to skyrocket, organizations
around the world are turning to Virtual Bridges to connect end users to
the applications and data they need – from any location or endpoint,
reducing security risks and increasing operational control.
For more visit http://www.vbridges.com/products/.
About Virtual Bridges
Virtual Bridges provides desktop cloud and virtualization solutions
that help organizations simplify desktop management, improve security
and compliance, and increase organizational agility across Windows and
Linux environments. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas and
backed by Austin Ventures. For more information visit: http://vbridges.com.
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