Sep 13, 2010 : Alert Logic Names Two Senior Executives


📅 - New executives bring significant IT service provider expertise to the company, in addition to their experience running and scaling growth companies.

Alert Logic, a provider of log management, intrusion detection and cloud security solutions for enterprises and service providers, today announced two new senior executive appointments.

The company mentions that Dave Colesante has been appointed Senior Vice President of Product Development and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective October 1, 2010. Johnny Vincent joins it as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), effective September 27, 2010. Both executives bring significant IT service provider expertise to the company in addition to their experience running and scaling growth companies.

It states that Colesante joins the company from SunGard Data Systems where he is currently Senior Vice President and General Manager of Managed Services for SunGard Availability Services. At SunGard, Colesante has P&L responsibility for the Managed Services line of business, which provides Managed Hosting, Enterprise Cloud, and Colocation services to midmarket and enterprise customers. Vincent was Vice President of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer for The Planet.

The company articulates that these new executives bolster its existing service provider expertise. With the addition of Colesante and Vincent, each of the top seven executives at the company has several years of leadership experience with hosting and cloud service providers.

It further states that concurrent with these changes, the company's Co-founder Misha Govshteyn is appointed to the new role of Vice President of Technology and Service Provider solutions. In this capacity, Misha is responsible for evaluating emerging technologies, prototyping new products and leading its solutions architecture efforts for large-scale service provider, complex enterprise and cloud computing environments. Misha remains responsible for the company's long-term technology direction and product strategy.

"Adding Colesante and Vincent to our executive team gives Alert Logic the depth of experience required to achieve our ambitious growth objectives," said Gray Hall, Chief Executive Officer at Alert Logic. "As we continue to establish Alert Logic as the leading provider of SaaS security solutions for service providers and their customers, our growth will continue to accelerate. Dave and Johnny round out my executive team and give us the capacity to successfully run a business several times larger than Alert Logic is today."

"In co-founding Alert Logic, Misha had the foresight to develop and bring to market the industry's first intrusion and log management Software-as-a-Service solutions," said Hall. "As we scale the business and realize the vision of our founders, Misha will focus on working directly with our service provider partners and ensuring that we continue to bring the most progressive products to market and that we integrate successfully with leading service provider networks and cloud computing platforms."

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