CloudBees has named Michel Goossens to vice president of European sales.Cloud applications developer CloudBees announced on Thursday that Michel Goossens, former vice president EMEA for Red Hat, has joined the company as vice president of European sales.
The move follows the appointment of former Oracle senior vice president Steven Harris to the position of senior vice president of products.
Goossens has over 20 years of industry experience to CloudBees, with more than 10 years specifically focused in the middleware business. In this role, Goossens will drive growth across the region as momentum for PaaS grows.
He has had success in technology sales and marketing to CloudBees. He most recently serving as vice president and general manager of EMEA at e-commerce platform provider Magento, which was acquired in August 2011 by eBay.
He rapidly built a successful sales and marketing team and, at the same time, developed a strong ecosystem of partners. Goossens’ career includes significant experience selling middleware and open source technology.
Prior to Magento, he served as vice president for JBoss EMEA and, after Red Hat acquired JBoss, he continued in the same role, growing JBoss revenue substantially throughout the European region.
He also served as vice president EMEA for both Novell and SilverStream.
“I have worked closely with Michel throughout my tenure at JBoss and Red Hat,” said Sacha Labourey, CEO and founder of CloudBees. “I am very honored to have him join the CloudBees team. Besides the technology depth he brings to his new role, he understands how to help companies adopt new technologies, as well as how to be more efficient building and managing applications. European organizations are seeing that the CloudBees Java PaaS empowers development teams to focus all of their time building value for the organization. Business-critical applications are delivered more quickly, more cost effectively and with higher quality. At this stage in our growth, the leadership and success Michel brings to our European operations is a real asset for CloudBees.”
CloudBees has grown new customer acquisition substantially over the last year or so in Europe, experiencing a 10-times growth factor at the end of 2011 over the prior year.
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Justin Lee has been a staff analyst with theWHIR since 2004. He writes about a range of web hosting and IT-related issues facing the industry on the WHIR website, as well the print version of the WHIR magazine. Follow him on Twitter @Justin_theWHIR.
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