Beatriz Infante Joins Sychron as CEO.SAN MATEO San Mateo (săn mətā`ō), city (1990 pop. 85,486), San Mateo co., W Calif., on San Francisco Bay; inc. 1894. It is a commercial and retail center with some high-technology manufacturing. San Mateo, Spanish for St. , Calif. -- Sychron Inc., a leader in policy-based IT automation, today announced that Beatriz V. Infante in·fan·te n. A son of a Spanish or Portuguese king other than the heir to the throne. [Spanish and Portuguese, both from Latin has joined the company as CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . Bill McColl, Sychron's founding CEO, will assume the role of CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. and continue leading the technology vision for the company. Infante is a seasoned executive who brings more than 25 years of experience in building market-leading businesses, with expertise in enterprise software, infrastructure, and communications. Most recently, Infante was Chairman, President, and CEO of Aspect Communications, which she led to revenues of nearly $600M/year, and also raised $50M in private equity financing Equity Financing The act of raising money for company activities by selling common or preferred stock to individual or institutional investors. In return for the money paid, shareholders receive ownership interests in the corporation. . Prior to that, she held executive positions at Oracle Corporation, where she was SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul of Oracle's Application Server, which she grew from its infancy to $40M+ in license revenue and numerous product awards. She was also responsible for Oracle's open systems business units, managing 50% revenue growth to $1.1B, and initiated and led the acquisition of the Rdb business by Oracle. "Sychron has delivered a winning product with tremendous market potential, and has a great portfolio of intellectual property," said Mark Pine, Managing Director of Sigma Partners, Sychron's lead investor. "Beatriz's experience managing high-growth opportunities makes her the ideal leader to drive the next phase of the company's evolution." "The move to utility computing and the creation of the intelligent data center is the next high-growth opportunity in high tech," said Infante. "The virtualization An umbrella term for enhancing a computer's ability to do work. Following are the ways virtualization is used. Hardware Virtualization Partitioning the computer's memory into separate and isolated "virtual machines" simulates multiple machines within one physical computer. of storage, servers, desktops and applications will revolutionize computing as we know it today, and Sychron's unique policy-based orchestration technology makes this possible. I'm very pleased to be here to help the company capitalize on the available opportunities." About Sychron Inc. Sychron is the leader in policy-based IT automation. Our solutions provide risk-controlled automation of a company's desktop and data center infrastructure that allow companies to ensure continuity and compliance, significantly reduce the costs to support and maintain desktops and data centers, and provide policy-based real-time control of desktop, application, shared storage, and shared server IT infrastructure. Founded in 1998, Sychron is a privately-funded company with headquarters in San Mateo, California San Mateo is a city in San Mateo County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south. , and R&D facilities in Oxford, England. For additional information contact Sychron at 713-781-6087 or http://www.sychron.com. |
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