AutoVirt Names Ed Spies Vice President of Finance

By VSM News Staff
published: Monday, November 03 2008

Will Help Company Meet Its Goal to Deliver Sophisticated, Yet Easy to Use and Affordable, Data Migration Solutions for Mid-Range Customers.

Nashua, NH (November 3, 2008) - AutoVirt, Inc., the emerging leader in fully automated online data migration solutions for mid-range Windows environments, today announced that it has named Ed Spies, Vice President of Finance.  Spies, who brings over 15 years of successful business, financial management, and accounting experience to the newly created position, will be responsible for all aspects of AutoVirt's financial management, administrative, and legal operations.  He will report directly to Klavs Landberg, AutoVirt Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO).

Prior to joining AutoVirt, Spies served as Vice President of Finance at Idiom Technologies, where he played a key role in helping to lead the company's successful sale to SDL Plc.  Previously, Spies held senior executive financial management positions with River Ridge Consulting and Books24x7.  He began his career at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.  Spies is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a BSBA from Clarkson University as well as, an MBA and MS in Accounting from Northeastern University.

"I am delighted with the opportunity to join AutoVirt.  Indeed, I look forward to helping the company to grow and realize its full potential, as AutoVirt continues to pioneer in delivering sophisticated, yet easy to use and affordable data migration solutions for mid-range customers," said Spies.

"Ed's experience in managing financial and administrative operations in dynamic business environments will be a tremendous asset to AutoVirt as we continue to set the stage for future growth, while maintaining our laser-like focus on what's most important - developing and delivering targeted solutions that help customers overcome real-world challenges," said Landberg.

Spies joins an established world-class management team that, in addition to Klavs Landberg, includes Diane Clay, Vice President of Marketing, and Rick Knowles, Vice President of Engineering.

About AutoVirt

AutoVirt, Inc. is the emerging leader in fully automated online data migration solutions for mid-range Windows environments.  AutoVirtTM software will offer customers a data migration solution that is easy to acquire and deploy - with no incremental work, downtime, configurations changes, or client software agents required.  Moreover, AutoVirt software will provide an out-of-band solution that eliminates the associated cost and added latency of an in-band approach.  With AutoVirt, customers have an easy to acquire, deploy, and manage solution at a highly affordable price.  For further information, please call: 603-546-2900, email: info@autovirt.com, or visit: www.autovirt.com.