October 10, 2003 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — ZooLink Corporation (zoolink.com), a provider of data center facilities and managed services based in Vancouver, Canada, announced yesterday the appointment of West McDonald to the position of president and chief executive officer, effective October 7.
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Ali Shawkat, the outgoing president and CEO, stepped down to focus on international business development for ZooLink. “To continue ZooLink’s revenue growth it is critical to develop new markets nationally and internationally,” said Shawkat. “This change in roles will allow me to focus my efforts on developing new streams of revenue for the company internationally.”
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Prior to joining ZooLink, McDonald was managed hosting services manager for the Western Canadian division of PSINet (psinet.com).
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“I’m very excited to be leading ZooLink’s growth into the future by continuing to expand the business model and working with our sales teams to deliver the revenues that we are capable of,” said McDonald. “We have two world-class data centers that our customers are extremely satisfied with and the goal is to continue growing this customer base with the variety of managed services we provide.”
