Totton Brings Decades of Experience Driving Scale and Innovation at
Red Hat and Microsoft
BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 13, 2018--
Everbridge,
Inc. (NASDAQ: EVBG), the global leader in critical event management
and enterprise safety software applications to help keep people safe and
businesses running faster, today announced that Jim Totton has joined
the company to lead product development, SaaS operations, engineering
and corporate IT. As Executive Vice President of Product Management,
Engineering and Operations, Totton will lead all technical operations
and will be responsible for ensuring that the EverbridgeCritical
Event Management platform continues to deliver organizational
resilience on unprecedented scale for over 3,500 global customers.
Totton is a world-class business and technology executive who joins
Everbridge from Red Hat, where he served as Vice President and General
Manager for the company’s $1B+ Platform Business Unit for the past 7+
years. At Red Hat, Totton was responsible for leading the company’s
business strategy, product marketing, product management, business
operations and product roadmap for the Red Hat core platforms including
Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat
OpenStack Platform.
“Jim has an immensely impressive track record of scaling global
technology organizations, while at the same time not losing sight of the
importance of innovation, product enhancements and customer excellence,”
said Jaime Ellertson, CEO of Everbridge. “We look forward to having Jim
join the Everbridge team and leveraging his leadership as we continue to
scale business and technical operations and expand our global leadership
in Critical Event Management.”
Prior to Red Hat, Totton was General Manager of Marketing at Microsoft
in the OEM division, where he led product management and business
development to support the $20B+ OEM channel. Prior to that, Totton was
Vice President of Software for the Product Group at Dell Technologies,
where he was responsible for managing over 1,000 engineers across the
globe.
“This is an exciting time to join Everbridge as it continues to build
momentum and scale,” added Totton. “I am looking forward to working with
the talented team to continue to raise the game on technical innovation
and operational excellence.”
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 faster. 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,
cyber-attacks or other incidents such as product recalls or supply-chain
interruptions, over 3,500 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 2 billion
messages in 2017, and offers the ability to reach more than 200
countries and territories with secure delivery to over 100 different
communication devices. 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, 8 of the 10 largest
U.S.-based investment banks, 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 San Francisco,
Lansing, Orlando, Beijing, London, and Stockholm. For more information,
visit www.everbridge.com,
read the company blog,
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