Robert Hughes, Formerly President of Worldwide Operations for Akamai
Technologies, Joins as President
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 1, 2017--
Everbridge,
Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), a global software company that provides
critical event management and enterprise safety applications to help
keep people safe and businesses running, today announced the expansion
of its senior management team. Proven executives Robert Hughes, who most
recently served as President, Worldwide Operations for Akamai
Technologies, joins the company in the newly created position of
President, and Javier Colado becomes Everbridge’s first Senior Vice
President, International Sales.
Everbridge Appoints President
Robert Hughes is a seasoned
enterprise technology executive and visionary, having worked at Akamai,
PictureTel and Boston Scientific. At Akamai, he spent 17 years scaling
and expanding the company’s global operations and services from pre-IPO
to over $2 billion in annual revenues. Hughes served on the company’s
executive leadership team for more than a decade. As President, he
oversaw day-to-day global operations and all aspects of the customer
experience, with responsibilities including global sales, services,
marketing, support and go-to-market strategy. Prior to this role, he
served in numerous cross-functional leadership positions at Akamai
focused on global expansion, driving increased revenues and regional
market share, channels, product management and human resources
transformation.
At Everbridge, Hughes will be responsible for the company’s global
go-to-market operations, including sales, marketing, professional
services and customer success efforts. He will report to the Chief
Executive Officer, Jaime Ellertson, will join the company’s senior
management team and is expected to join the Board of Directors, where he
will participate in the development of the company’s strategic direction
as well as focus on scaling business operations and growth in pursuit of
Everbridge’s continued global leadership in Critical Event Management.
“Bob is a proven strategic executive with an amazing track record of
scaling operations from a few million dollars to more than a billion
dollars in revenue, while simultaneously delivering a superior customer
experience,” said Jaime Ellertson, CEO of Everbridge. “I am very excited
to have Bob join our team and share his leadership experience as we
drive our business through the next major growth phase.”
Everbridge Adds SVP International Sales
Everbridge announced
the further expansion of its executive team with the appointment of
Javier Colado as Senior Vice President, International Sales. Colado will
lead international sales and operations and serve as a member of the
senior management team reporting to Hughes. Over the course of his
career, Colado has led international growth in EMEA and Asia Pacific at
organizations such as Intralinks, SAP, Novell and McAfee. Most recently,
he served as Senior Vice President, EMEA at Intralinks. Previous roles
include leadership positions such as Head of Global Sales at Novell,
where he had direct responsibility for over $1 billion in annual
revenues. Colado will be based out of the company’s EMEA headquarters in
London.
“Javier is a very experienced international enterprise sales executive
who will bring extensive scaling expertise to Everbridge as we continue
to grow our international operations,” said Ellertson. “The combination
of Bob and Javier will significantly deepen the skills and experience of
our executive team and help us prepare for the continued expansion of
our business.”
About Everbridge
Everbridge,
Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG) is a global software company that provides
enterprise software applications that automate and accelerate an
organization’s 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 such as IT outages or
cyber-attack incidents, over 3,400 global customers rely on the
company’s SaaS-based 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, and
track progress on executing response plans. The company’s platform sent
over 1.5 billion messages in 2016, and offers the ability to reach over
200 countries and territories with secure delivery to more than 100
different communication devices. The company’s critical event management
and enterprise safety applications include Mass Notification, Incident
Management, IT Alerting, Safety Connection™, Community Engagement®,
Visual Command Center®, Crisis Commander® and CareConverge™, and are
easy-to-use and deploy, secure, highly scalable and reliable. Everbridge
serves 8 of the 10 largest U.S. cities, 8 of the 10 largest U.S.-based
investment banks, all four of the largest global accounting firms, all
25 of the 25 busiest North American airports and 6 of the 10 largest
global automakers. Everbridge is based in Boston and Los Angeles with
additional offices in San Francisco, Lansing, Beijing, London and
Stockholm. For more information, visit www.everbridge.com,
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