R. Brooks Borcherding, president of NaviSite.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Web hosting provider NaviSite (www.navisite.com) announced on Monday it has promoted R. Brooks Borcherding to president of NaviSite.
Borcherding will expand his current responsibilities to include overall sales, marketing, operations and service delivery in addition to business planning and day-to-day operations.
He will help to accelerate NaviSite’s transformation into the “leading provider of complex hosting, application management and cloud solutions for enterprise customers,” according to the press release.
NaviSite recently sold its Lawson / Kronos Application Services business to Velocity Technology Solutions for $56 million in cash.
“Since joining the company last April, Brooks has successfully sharpened our focus on the large enterprise market,” says Arthur Becker, CEO of NaviSite. “His promotion to president is recognition of his significant contributions to the business and our continued confidence in his ability to drive the company’s success going forward.”
Borcherding joined NaviSite in April 2009 from Cisco, where he led strategy, planning, business development and sales operations for the company’s enterprise east divisions.
In the past, he has held positions at Avaya, Lucent and AT&T.
