Mahesh Kumar, vice president of marketing at AccelOps
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Data center monitoring software provider AccelOps (www.accelops.com) announced on Wednesday it has named Mahesh Kumar its vice president of marketing.
The move is the latest in a series of recent appointments for AccelOps, which include Elie Antoun as president and CEO, William Delaney as chief financial officer, and Richard Kagan as a member of the board of directors.
Kumar is a cloud product strategist with expertise in CMDB and change management, SaaS, and managed service provider solutions.
He has 20 years of marketing and engineering experience at both startups and established companies.
In his new role, Kumar will oversee product management, product marketing, analyst and public relations, marketing communications, and channel marketing.
“Mahesh possesses the vision and entrepreneurial energy to help drive the success of a fast moving company like AccelOps, and we’re extremely pleased to welcome him on our executive staff,” said Elie Antoun, president and CEO of AccelOps. “His deep product marketing experience and insight into the cloud computing space will drive AccelOps’ business in the rapidly growing data center marketplace.”
Prior to joining AccelOps, Kumar served as director of marketing at HP. During this time, he brought the company’s CMDB software business from inception to market, as well as led the team that built HP’s first SaaS-only product.
Before HP, Kumar held executive positions at Collation and Kontiki, where he drove product and go-to-market strategies.
Earlier in his career at cloud computing solutions provider Loudcloud, he managed the team responsible for defining cloud services and was a key evangelist for the company’s transition to a software business model.
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