SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Jan. 12, 2017 /PRNewswire/
-- Hortonworks® (NASDAQ: HDP), a leading innovator
of open and connected data platforms, today announced that it has
appointed Raj Verma president and chief operating officer.
Verma is an experienced enterprise sales veteran who brings more
than 20 years of enterprise sales and marketing leadership to
Hortonworks.
Hortonworks recently celebrated exceeding 1,000 customers
worldwide, having rapidly built its customer base across industries
including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, energy,
telecommunications and public sector. Verma will be responsible for
advancing Hortonworks' global sales strategy and execution, and
will oversee sales, sales engineering, channel, professional
services, training and marketing. He will begin his new role with
Hortonworks on January 16, 2017.
"Raj is a proven sales leader and has successfully scaled
enterprise sales teams to significantly accelerate revenue growth,"
said Rob Bearden, chief executive
officer of Hortonworks. "I am very excited to welcome Raj to
Hortonworks and know he has the right experience to further propel
Hortonworks on its mission to manage the world's data."
Verma has spent his entire career in the Information Technology
industry, most recently as chief operating officer of TIBCO
Software Inc., where he was instrumental in taking TIBCO from
$300 million to more than
$1 billion in annual revenue. He
also held various other executive roles during his 12-year tenure
at TIBCO, including executive vice president of worldwide sales and
chief marketing officer.
"Today's modern enterprises must embrace all data as a currency
for growth and to fuel innovation," said Raj Verma. "I believe that
Hortonworks' superior connected data platforms, in conjunction with
its open source model, are the future of software development and
consumption. It's a privilege to join the Hortonworks team and I
look forward to working with customers to continue to deliver
transformational impact to their businesses."
About Hortonworks
Hortonworks is an industry leading innovator that creates,
distributes and supports enterprise-ready open data platforms and
modern data applications that deliver actionable intelligence from
all data: data-in-motion and data-at-rest. Hortonworks is focused
on driving innovation in open source communities such as Apache
Hadoop, Apache NiFi and Apache Spark. Along with its 1,800+
partners, Hortonworks provides the expertise, training and services
that allow customers to unlock transformational value for their
organizations across any line of business.
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