2nd Feb 2015 07:00
2nd February 2015
cloudBuy plc
("cloudBuy" or the "Company")
Appointment of Vice President Sales
cloudBuy plc (AIM: CBUY), the cloud ecommerce marketplace, is pleased to announce the appointment, with immediate effect, of Al Powell as Vice President Sales. Al will help drive the expansion of cloudBuy into North America and will have responsibility for sales and revenue generation.
Al joins cloudBuy from Serus Corporation where his role as Vice President Worldwide Sales provided him with extensive experience in the supply chain and procurement business for G1000 companies. Al targeted some of the largest global manufacturers in the world including AMD, Nvidia, Micron, and Qualcomm to assist them in improving the visibility, quality, responsiveness, and reducing the cost of their extensive supply chains. Previously, Al was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for other enterprise software and SaaS-based companies including Corticon (acquired by Progress Software), Postini (acquired by Google) and Intershop Communications, an ecommerce software company with HQ in SF, CA. that Al helped become a public company with a very successful IPO.
Ronald Duncan, Chairman of cloudBuy, commented, "I am pleased to welcome Al to the cloudBuy sales team, we have been market testing our solution in the US and have found that there is a real appetite for what we have to offer, and that there is a clear differentiation from our competitors particularly in the area of secure payments with banking partners. We have created a number of opportunities with large corporates and Al has joined to close these opportunities, as well as to leverage his experience and networks to create additional revenues."
Al Powell, Vice President of North America Sales at cloudBuy, commented, "I am excited to be joining cloudBuy to accelerate sales and revenue growth in North America. Our products and services are helping large enterprises reduce their cost of doing business and allowing them to use these savings to help fund their growth. The timing could not be better to bring cloudBuy's SaaS-based offerings to North America."
For further information, please contact:
cloudBuy plc Ronald Duncan, Chairman Lyn Duncan, Chief Executive Jonathan Holden, Chief Operating Officer
| Tel: 0118 963 7000 |
Westhouse Securities Limited Tom Griffiths/Richard Johnson
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Tel: 020 7601 6100 |
Newgate Tim Thompson/Robyn McConnachie
| Tel: 020 7653 9850 |
About cloudBuy plc
cloudBuy is a world-leading transactional cloud platform.
cloudBuy has used the platform to build world-leading business to business (B2B) ecommerce and e-procurement applications, which address the full range of buying and selling activities in an easy-to-use web and mobile digital experience. The platform is also used to build complementary applications such as content management, secure email and big data analysis.
To date, the applications have processed over $500 billion of spend, and are being used by leading organisations around the world to deliver savings, increase profits and improve services.
The applications are unique in delivering correct pricing in the complex world of B2B procurement, whilst being simple enough for anyone to use - to the extent that people with disabilities can easily use a Care marketplace version to buy their own social and health care.
For more information, visit www.cloudbuy.com
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