Continuing Momentum, Neebula Adds Senior Cloud Leaders to Management Team

Chief Marketing Officer and VP Business Development bring extensive experience and successful track record in scaling leading IT Management SaaS companies


NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Neebula Systems, the only provider of business-level service modeling, management, and automated full-stack discovery and dependency mapping solutions, today announced the addition of two senior executives - Bob Johnson, as chief marketing officer, and Ilan Shmargad, as vice president of business development.

Bob Johnson brings more than 20 years experience in marketing, product management, application development/integration, and broadband networking. Most recently, he was the vice president and general manager of BMC's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) initiative where he successfully grew the business to more than 250 customers within 24 months. In addition, he worked as director of marketing and product management for Cisco's SaaS/managed services organization. Earlier in his career, Johnson worked at Ernst & Young, as well as AT&T. He is a former captain in the United States Marine Corps. Johnson holds a Masters in Telecommunications from Stevens Institute of Technology, a Master of Business Administration and Management from Webster University, and an undergraduate degree from Boston College.

Ilan Shmargad brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in business development, sales and management. He was a key player in helping launch and successfully expanding software companies that were acquired for over $100 million. His background includes serving as vice president of business development at Identify Software, acquired by BMC. At BMC, Shmargad was the leading partner executive at the Identify business unit. Previously, he was executive vice president of worldwide sales, marketing, and business development at a spin-off of Mercury Interactive, where he launched and managed U.S. field operations, channel operations in Europe, and executed strategic alliances with major technology companies and system integrators. Shmargad holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, and attended the Recanati-Wharton MBA Program at Tel Aviv University.

"We're scaling to serve our growing clientele of global enterprises, government and education customers in North America and Europe," said Yuval Cohen, CEO, Neebula Systems. "Our goal is to free today's IT administrator from the drudgery of understanding details about how specific physical and virtual assets, among the thousands of assets deployed in a typical data center, combine to provide a business service while empowering them to manage services better by helping to pinpoint issues before they impact an end-user business service. Bob and Ilan will help us communicate this value and work with partners to make it a reality."

About Neebula Systems

Neebula Systems, the premier service-centric IT management company, provides the only business-level service modeling, management, and automated full-stack discovery and dependency mapping solution, encouraging organizations to shift from managing data center silos (servers, network, storage, applications) to managing end-user business services (example: CRM, billing, tax payment, fund transfer services). Leveraging unique technology that automatically maps business services to the underlying infrastructure, the enhanced visibility available through Neebula software allows IT to increase service availability, reduce costs, and improve operational performance and efficiency. Neebula has an installed base of global enterprises, Fortune 5000 companies, and government/education customers in Europe and North America, including Amdocs, Bechtel, Ceva, EL AL Airlines, and leading firms in the financial service market, among others.  Headquartered in New York and Tel Aviv, the company is the leading innovator in service-centric IT management, including discovery automation, business service modeling, dependency mapping, and impact analysis. Neebula is interoperable with CMDB software from BMC Software, Computer Associates (CA), Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, and ServiceNow.



            

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