Mattermost Appoints Pavel Zeman as Senior Vice President of Engineering to Lead Innovation and the Company’s Technical Alliance with Microsoft
September 10 2024 - 5:00AM
Mattermost Inc., a leader in secure collaboration for
mission-critical work, today announced the appointment of Pavel
Zeman as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Pavel brings more
than 20 years of industry experience, with a distinguished
background in security, critical infrastructure, mobile security,
and large-scale engineering leadership. His appointment is expected
to drive engineering innovation and accelerate technical
collaboration with Azure, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft 365
platforms.
"CIOs in national security and critical infrastructure
enterprises depend on Mattermost for their most vital workflows
from incident response to crisis communications and critical event
management," said Ian Tien, CEO of Mattermost. “Pavel is the ideal
engineering leader to accelerate the integration of Mattermost’s
Mission IT solutions with Microsoft’s Enterprise IT platforms
including Azure and Azure AI, Entra ID, Teams and Teams
Marketplace, Graph API, and the broader M365 ecosystem.”
Pavel’s expertise spans leading global engineering teams of over
500 professionals across Research and Development, and Cloud
Operations, managing and mentoring successful teams, and bridging
technology with business objectives to drive growth and
profitability. Pavel’s impressive career includes senior technical
leadership roles at Red Canary, where he focused on engineering
enterprise software solutions to defend against cybersecurity
threats. He also held critical roles at VMware, scaling engineering
operations, providing Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM)
leadership, and leading the development of EMM for securing and
managing mobile apps, documents, and devices at MobileIron. He has
a deep connection to Microsoft, where he served as a technical
leader. Pavel joins Microsoft alumni Corey Hulen and Ian Tien, who
co-founded Mattermost in 2016.
"Out-of-band incident response is essential to every
mission-critical enterprise," said Pavel Zeman. "Replacing legacy
crisis communication systems like Skype for Business and Cisco
WebEx with a modern, purpose-built platform is increasingly vital
to reducing and avoiding downtime, and also for retaining top
talent in some of the most demanding and stressful jobs in the
world. I’m excited about the opportunity to lead engineering for a
platform so vital to both national security and global resilience,
and to accelerate Mattermost’s work with Microsoft as a strategic
partner. "
Pavel’s proven ability to innovate, manage large-scale
engineering teams, and align technology with business goals will be
key as Mattermost continues to expand its reach in security-focused
markets and critical infrastructure sectors. His appointment is
expected to not only enhance Mattermost’s engineering capabilities
but also solidify its reputation within the broader technology
community.
About Mattermost
Mattermost is the leading collaboration platform for
mission-critical work. We serve national security, government, and
critical infrastructure enterprises, from the U.S. Department of
Defense, to global tech giants, to utilities, banks, and other
vital services. We accelerate out-of-band incident response,
DevSecOps workflow, mission operations, and self-sovereign
collaboration to bolster the focus, adaptability, and resilience of
the world’s most important organizations.
Our enterprise software and single-tenant SaaS platforms are
built to meet the custom needs of rigorous and complex environments
while offering a secure and unrivaled collaboration experience
across web, desktop, and mobile with channel-based messaging, file
sharing, audio calling and screen share, with integrated tooling,
workflow automation and AI assistance.
Mattermost is developed on an open core platform vetted by the
world’s leading security organizations, and co-built with over
4,000 open source project contributors who’ve provided over 30,000
code improvements towards our shared vision of accelerating the
world’s mission-critical work.
For more information visit mattermost.com.
- Pavel Zeman, SVP of Engineering for Mattermost
Ashley Dotterweich
Mattermost
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