Unitrends today announced Kevin Weiss as the company's new president and
chief executive officer (CEO). Weiss previously held leadership
positions with Bertram Capital, McAfee, Ariba, BindView, BMC Software
and IBM.
"Unitrends exited 2014 with a great deal of momentum," said Michael
Triplett, managing director, Insight Venture Partners. "In 2015, we see
unparalleled opportunity to expand our market presence around the world.
We believe that Kevin Weiss is the right person to guide Unitrends
through this next phase of growth. He has a proven track record of
successfully transforming companies, while delivering results through
improved operational expertise."
In 2014, Unitrends released a number of new products, including its
hybrid cloud Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Recovery
Assurance offerings, as well as Boomerang, its VMware-to-Amazon Web
Services (AWS) cloud migration, cloudbursting and DRaaS tool. The
company also completed two acquisitions (PHD Virtual and Yuruware) and
moved its headquarters from Columbia, South Carolina, to Burlington,
Massachusetts.
"What attracted me to Unitrends was the opportunity to work with such
a passionate group of professionals who are focused on building and
deploying a best-of-breed product portfolio," said Weiss. "I believe
that the data protection industry has unprecedented growth
opportunities. Unitrends is well-positioned to grow faster than the
industry because of its focus on customer satisfaction - proven by its
industry-leading 98 percent satisfaction rating, its innovative channel
programs and its world-class data protection solutions. My immediate
focus will be to help the company accelerate its domestic growth rate,
expand internationally and create even more value for our customers,
partners and investors."
Prior to joining Unitrends, Weiss was the chairman and CEO of Xhibit
Corp, the parent company of SkyMall. Prior to that, he served as the
president and chief executive of Author Solutions, a Penguin Random
House Company, and played a key role in the successful sale of the
company to Pearson PLC. Author Solutions was a portfolio company of
private equity firm Bertram Capital, where Weiss has served as an
operating partner since 2007. Prior to Author Solutions, Weiss was the
president of McAfee, now part of Intel Security. Weiss has also held
senior management positions at Ariba, BindView and BMC Software and
spent more than 15 years in various sales and marketing positions at
IBM.
Weiss' appointment is the latest in a series of strategic senior
management team positions the company has announced over the last
several months. In Q4 2014, Unitrends announced Brad Miller as its new
chief financial officer. Additionally, company veteran Mark Campbell was
promoted to chief marketing officer and chief technology officer, and
James Legg (former CEO of PHD Virtual) was promoted to executive vice
president of worldwide field operations.