Electric Cloud Appoints Jim Bell Vice President of Marketing.Industry Veteran to Expand Electric Cloud's Leadership in Software Production Management MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Electric Cloud Electric Cloud, Inc. is a privately held software corporation specializing in high-performance software build tools. Electric Cloud is based in Mountain View, California and currently offers two products. [R] today announced that Jim Bell Jim Bell is an American political activist who created the idea of arranging for anonymously sponsored assassination payments via the Internet, which he called "assassination politics". has joined the company's management team as vice president of marketing. A veteran of the software industry, Bell is responsible for growing Electric Cloud's marketing organization as the company grows to meet the strong demand for software production management solutions. "Our top priority at Electric Cloud is to continue to grow the company to support our growing list of world class customers," said Electric Cloud 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. Mike Maciag. "Jim has a strong track record of building and managing marketing teams focused on customer success. It's an exciting time for the company, having just closed new funding and launched the only complete solution for software production management. We look forward to Jim's leadership as we expand our market reach." "Electric Cloud has established early leadership in addressing a critical, but often overlooked challenge within the Application Lifecycle Management The administration and control of an application from inception to its demise. It embraces requirements management, system design, software development and configuration management and implies an integrated set of tools for developing and controlling the project. (ALM) space," noted Bell. "I am honored to join the proven, successful team at Electric Cloud as we capitalize on Cap´i`tal`ize on` v. t. 1. To turn (an opportunity) to one's advantage; to take advantage of (a situation); to profit from; as, to capitalize on an opponent's mistakes s>. this tremendous market opportunity." Bell brings over 15 years of high-technology marketing experience. Prior to joining Electric Cloud, he was vice president of Market Development for Actuate Corporation, where he was responsible for all demand creation in support of direct, reseller An organization that sells hardware and software to the general public. Resellers purchase products from software publishers and hardware manufacturers. , distributor, and OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and sales channels worldwide. Bell also built and led product management and marketing teams as director of Product Marketing at MS2 (acquired by Agile Software) and Vantive Corporation (acquired by PeopleSoft, now Oracle). He has also held product management and marketing leadership roles at Hewlett-Packard Company, Wyse Technology and SGI (SGI, Sunnyvale, CA, www.sgi.com) A manufacturer of workstations and servers, founded in 1982 by Jim Clark. The company was founded as Silicon Graphics, Inc., but changed to its acronym in 1999. . About Electric Cloud Electric Cloud is the leading provider of software production management solutions that accelerate, automate and analyze the software development tasks that follow the check-in of new code. These include the software build, package, test and deploy processes. The company's patented and award-winning solutions improve productivity in the face of increasing product complexity and time-to-market pressures for software delivery. Leading companies such as Qualcomm, Intuit in·tu·it tr.v. in·tu·it·ed, in·tu·it·ing, in·tu·its Usage Problem To know intuitively. [Back-formation from intuition. , Motorola and Expedia rely on Electric Cloud's Software Production Management solutions to change software production from a liability to a competitive advantage. For customer inquiries please contact Electric Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com. Note to editors: A digital headshot photograph of Jim Bell is available by contacting Lisa Sheeran at sheeran@earthlink.net. [c] 2003-2007 Electric Cloud, Inc. All rights reserved. Electric Cloud, ElectricInsight, ElectricAccelerator and Electric Make are trademarks of Electric Cloud. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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