HYCU, Inc., a pioneering enterprise software company
specializing in data backup, recovery and monitoring for next-generation
Enterprise Clouds, announced Nathan Owen has joined the company as Chief
Operating Officer (COO.) He will assume day-to-day responsibilities for
operations, corporate development and strategic alliances. With more than twenty
years experience, Owen brings a rich pedigree of operationalizing high growth
and success to HYCU.
"Nathan joins
HYCU with a wealth of operational and product management experience at both
early-stage and enterprise-scale companies," said Simon Taylor, HYCU's CEO. "We
are thrilled to have a steady hand at the operational helm as we continue to
expand our product line and broaden our customer base. I'm looking forward to
learning from his strong industry knowledge and fully expect to see similar
success from him in his work at HYCU."
Prior to
joining HYCU, Owen was CEO at Blue Medora, helping it become a leader in the
emerging monitoring integration as a service (MIaaS) category. During his
tenture at Blue Medora he raised over $28M in venture capital and forged
strategic relationships with VMware, Google, New Relic, and other vendors in
the APM space.
Before Blue
Medora, Owen spent time between emerging companies and established IT
powerhouses. He was at IBM where he served in corporate and business development
and was co-founder and EVP of Sales at OctetString, Inc. which was acquired by
Oracle in 2005 to enhance Oracle's market-leading security product portfolio
and complete its identity management offerings.
"What Simon
and the team at HYCU have been able to accomplish in such a short amount of
time is extremely impressive," said Nathan Owen. "I'm looking forward to
bringing my expertise in operations and cultivating partnerships with the
industry's leading companies such as Google, New Relic, Nutanix, VMware and
others to help drive the next phase of growth at HYCU. It really is a great
moment in time to join, and the opportunity in front of us is significant. With
HYCU's growth over the past three years, and the pace of innovation the company
has introduced, 2020 will be a great year for HYCU."
Owen will
report to Simon Taylor. He holds a Bachelor's of Science degree from Central
Michigan University in Political Science and is an advisor, investor, board
member and mentor to a wide array of technology startups and executives.
He added, "The emergence of innovative companies
like HYCU and its new software-based and purpose-built approach to data
protection have radically simplified the way companies manage and protect
critical applications, VMs and workloads. With the solutions introduced to the
market to date, HYCU has been able to dramatically lower their customers' TCO,
and are fully exploiting hybrid approaches to both on-premises and public
cloud-based backup and DR.