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Electric Cloud Selects Mike Maciag as Chief Executive Officer; Company Executive and Industry Veteran to Guide Company Through Next Stage of Growth.


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. , the software build infrastructure company, today announced the appointment of Mike Maciag as the company's new Chief Executive Officer.

Previously the company's Vice President of Marketing and Business Development, Maciag has almost fifteen years of executive management experience in public and private information and technology companies. Former Chief Executive John Ousterhout (person) John Ousterhout - /oh'st*r-howt/ John K. Ousterhout, the designer of Tcl and Tk, and founder of Scriptics.

See also: Ousterhout's dichotomy.

E-mail: john.ousterhout@scriptics.com.
 remains Chairman of the Electric Cloud Board of Directors.

"Mike is a great choice for the role of 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.  for Electric Cloud. He has shown tremendous leadership in driving our marketing and business development initiatives, paving the way for recent customer wins with blue-chip technology companies such as QUALCOMM and Intuit," said John Ousterhout, Electric Cloud Chairman. "So moving the business leadership responsibilities to Mike is a natural transition, allowing me to spend more time on research and development as our portfolio continues to expand."

"Electric Cloud is transitioning from an early stage, technology-driven startup to a rapidly growing, market-driven enterprise, and the Board of Directors had been searching for an executive to drive this evolution. Mike Maciag has the business acumen and proven ability to take technology companies to the next level, and so he was our unanimous choice for this role," said Allen Morgan, Electric Cloud Board Member and General Partner with The Mayfield Fund Mayfield Fund is a venture capital firm located on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California, home to many of Silicon Valley's leading venture capital firms.

Mayfield was founded in 1969 by Tommy Davis, one of the first venture capitalists.
.

Morgan added, "Electric Cloud is one of a few fortunate companies to have both a top flight Chief Executive and a visionary Chairman."

Before coming to Electric Cloud, Maciag was Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at MS2, Inc., an enterprise software company he founded where he established a new application category called Product Lifecycle Product lifecycle or product life cycle is the course of a product's sales and profits over time. The five stages of each product lifecycle are product development, introduction, growth, maturity and decline.  Automation (PLA (Programmable Logic Array) A type of programmable logic chip (PLD) that contained arrays of programmable AND and OR gates. PLAs are no longer used. See PLD.

(language, music) Pla - A high-level music programming language, written in SAIL.
). Prior to MS2, Maciag played lead roles in establishing the Color Server market at Electronics for Imaging and the Super Server Market at NetFrame Systems, Inc. Market traction at both Electronics for Imaging and NetFrame Systems led to successful public companies. In addition, Maciag served as Executive Director of Corporate Development for Informix Software, acquired by IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries)  in 2001. Mike holds a BS degree from Santa Clara University as well as an MBA MBA
abbr.
Master of Business Administration

Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business
Master in Business, Master in Business Administration
 from Northwestern University's J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

John Ousterhout, company founder and Chairman of the Board is also the creator of the Tcl scripting language. Ousterhout is well known for his work in distributed operating systems, high-performance file systems, and user interfaces. With Mike Maciag's new role, Ousterhout will be redoubling his work on the company's innovative build technologies, working closely with Vice President of Engineering Anders Wallgren to help enterprises break through the build bottleneck and streamline build processes in leading software development organizations.

About Electric Cloud

Electric Cloud is a software build infrastructure company pioneering technologies that shorten time-to-market, increase productivity, and improve quality and customer satisfaction. Electric Cloud addresses the build related frustrations, delays and resource scheduling nightmares that every software development team endures. The company's products are in use by leading organizations in telecommunications, automotive, software, networking and high-technology. Based in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see .
Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
, Electric Cloud is funded by top-tier venture firms, The Mayfield Fund, U.S. Venture Partners and RRE RRE Red Rock Eater (News Service)
RRE Road Race Engineering
RRE Remote Roof Easy
RRE Residential Real Estate
RRE Rise-And-Run-Length Encoding
RRE Royal Radar Establishment (Great Britain) 
 Ventures. For customer inquiries please contact Electric Cloud at (650) 968-2950 or www.electric-cloud.com.
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