BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 14, 2019--
Everbridge,
Inc. (NASDAQ:EVBG), the global leader in critical event management
and enterprise safety applications to help keep people safe and
businesses running, today announced the appointment of Sharon Rowlands
to the Everbridge Board of Directors. Rowlands has more than 30 years of
experience leading multi-billion dollar companies across the industries
of financial services, media and information, and digital marketing.
Rowlands has served as CEO and President of Thomson Financial, as
Division President at Gannett, and has recently been appointed Chief
Executive Officer and President at Web.com Group.
“Sharon is a proven technology and financial services executive with a
long history of success in business and digital transformation,” said
Jaime Ellertson, chairman and CEO of Everbridge. “She shares our vision,
dedication to customer excellence, and commitment to driving profitable
growth. Her multi-industry background and public board-level experience
will be extremely valuable as Everbridge continues to expand in new
markets.”
Prior to her appointment as CEO at Web.com Group, Rowlands was the
President of USA TODAY NETWORK’s Marketing Solutions business where she
oversaw business-to-business initiatives. She has also served as CEO of
ReachLocal (acquired by Gannett), providing local businesses with
digital marketing solutions. Rowlands is currently on the board of
directors of global software company Pegasystems (Nasdaq PEGA) and was
previously on the board of directors of Constant Contact (Nasdaq CTCT).
“I am honored to join Everbridge’s Board and am excited to contribute to
the continuing growth of a company that is providing businesses with
such important solutions for managing enterprise risk, ensuring
operational resiliency and protecting employees,” said Rowlands.
“Everbridge has built a strong customer-focused culture and provides a
value proposition critical to how businesses can minimize disruption.”
Rowlands was named Customer Focused CEO of the Year in the 2016 CEO
World Awards, won the Gold Stevie Award for Female Executive of the Year
in 2016 and was also named Female CEO of the Year in the 2016 One Planet
Awards. In addition to ReachLocal and Thomson Financial, she has served
as CEO of a variety of organizations including Altegrity and Penton
Media.
About Everbridge
Everbridge,
Inc. (NASDAQ:EVBG) is a global software company that provides enterprise
software applications that automate and accelerate organizations’
operational response to critical events in order to keep people safe and
businesses running. During public safety threats such as active shooter
situations, terrorist attacks or severe weather conditions, as well as
critical business events including IT outages, cyber-attacks or other
incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain interruptions, over
4,200 global customers rely on the company’s Critical Event Management
Platform to quickly and reliably aggregate and assess threat data,
locate people at risk and responders able to assist, automate the
execution of pre-defined communications processes through the secure
delivery to over 100 different communication devices, and track progress
on executing response plans. The company’s platform sent
over 2.8 billion messages in 2018 and offers the ability to reach over
500 million people in more than 200 countries and territories, including
the entire mobile populations on a country-wide scale in Sweden, the
Netherlands, the Bahamas, Singapore, Greece, Cambodia, and a number of
the largest states in India. The company’s critical communications and
enterprise safety applications include Mass Notification, Incident
Management, Safety Connection™, IT Alerting, Visual Command Center®,
Crisis Commander®, Community Engagement™ and Secure Messaging.
Everbridge serves 9 of the 10 largest U.S. cities, 9 of the 10 largest
U.S.-based investment banks, all 25 of the 25 busiest North American
airports, six of the 10 largest global consulting firms, six of the 10
largest global auto makers, all four of the largest global accounting
firms, four of the 10 largest U.S.-based health care providers and four
of the 10 largest U.S.-based health insurers. Everbridge is based in
Boston and Los Angeles with additional offices in Lansing, San
Francisco, Beijing, Bangalore, Kolkata, London, Munich, Oslo, Stockholm
and Tilburg. For more information, visit www.everbridge.com,
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All Everbridge products are trademarks of Everbridge, Inc. in the USA
and other countries. All other product or company names mentioned are
the property of their respective owners.
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Everbridge
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