Embotics Appoints Eric Courville as Vice President of Sales and Business Development By VSM News Staff published: Monday, October 22 2007
VM Lifecycle Management Company Adds Former PlateSpin Executive to Management Team
Ottawa, October 22, 2007 – Embotics, the Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle Management™ Company, today announced the appointment of Eric Courville as vice president of Sales and Business Development. In his new role, Courville is responsible for worldwide sales and will oversee the company’s go-to-market efforts and the development of Embotics’ partner programs. Courville brings over 17 years of experience in sales, sales management and business development within enterprise software and hardware markets.
Previously as PlateSpin’s vice president of Global Alliances, Courville was responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with all worldwide channel, OEM and alliance partners. Courville also served as PlateSpin’s vice president of Sales and Business Development before his Global Alliances role, where he helped lead PlateSpin to well over 200 percent revenue growth annually over the last three years; increasing the number of customers from less than 60 to more than 3500 globally. Prior to PlateSpin, Courville held management positions with MediSolution, Platform Computing and Silicon Graphics.
“Eric helped transform PlateSpin from a small, emerging company into a global leader, ranked by Deloitte Technology Fast 50 as the Second Fastest Growing Technology Company,” said Jay Litkey, CEO and founder of Embotics. “His approach to the market and his expertise in building channel and alliance relationships, combined with his extensive experience and network in enterprise software, will help drive rapid growth in revenue and enterprise value for Embotics.”
“This is a case of ‘right place / right time,’” said Courville. “The biggest issue I have encountered when talking to global customers who have adopted virtualization is the need to manage and control the rapid growth and sprawl of virtual machines. It is becoming clear to them that the savings realized by server virtualization can rapidly disappear through the increase in IT workload, management and licensing costs inherent in an uncontrolled VM environment. Embotics is entering the market at the right time to address this need with their patent-pending technology.”
Embotics recently launched V-Commander, a centralized, policy-based management and control system for VMs. It controls VM sprawl, enforces corporate policy and automates VM control and management tasks, providing auditable control and oversight, as well as real operational savings for IT operators.
About Embotics
Embotics Corporation is the Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle management company focused on maximizing the business benefits of virtual servers for its customers. Embotics does this by authorizing, controlling, managing, securing and tracking all VM assets, online or offline, throughout their lifecycle. Founded by seasoned entrepreneur Jay Litkey (founder of Symbium and BlackholeTV) and funded by Tera Capital Corporation, Embotics is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada. For more information, please visit www.embotics.com.
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