FREDERICK, Md. (PRWEB)
April 30, 2020

HighGear, a leading no-code workflow automation platform provider, today announced the appointment of veteran technology industry executive John Cramp as Chief Growth Officer (CGO) with cross-functional responsibilities across sales, marketing, finance and operations to drive revenue, increase profitability and accelerate growth as the company expands into new markets.

Cramp has more than 30 years of senior leadership experience with Fortune 500, emerging growth and technology start-up companies, having successfully led organizations through periods of rapid organic growth, mergers and acquisitions, resulting in more than $1 billion in sales to commercial and government customers worldwide in the information technology, electronic payments and finance sectors.

Cramp’s accomplished tech sector tenure also includes demonstrable success in demand generation, strategic planning and capitalization projects, as well as building strong relationships with investors in the venture capital and private equity markets, serving on boards of directors for early-stage tech companies and raising multiple rounds of debt and equity capital while materially increasing shareholder value.

“John is a seasoned executive with a proven track record scaling SaaS technology and financial services businesses,” said Vaughn Thurman, CEO and Founder of HighGear. “He is the right leader to help our company position itself for the next stage of growth as enterprises embrace digital transformation, automate manual business processes and deploy collaborative work management solutions for an increasingly remote workforce.”

Prior to joining HighGear, Cramp served as the CEO of Motionsoft, where he consistently achieved double-digit revenue growth and transformed the Rockville-based company into the industry-leading member management, billing and payments solution provider for the health and fitness industry. He previously served as CEO for Gaming Network Solutions, Solveras and CardSystems Solutions, as well as COO for Telkonet.

“As demand for workflow automation continues to increase worldwide, HighGear’s no-code platform is well-positioned to address the rapidly-changing needs of its global enterprise customer base,” said Cramp. “I look forward to working with HighGear to build upon last year’s record-setting increase in revenue, users and staff size, continue its customer-driven momentum and capitalize on this growing market opportunity.”

About HighGear

HighGear is the leading, intuitive no-code platform for business analysts to rapidly build enterprise-grade workflow applications. It is the only enterprise-grade workflow application that allows teams of everyday business users to quickly assign tasks, manage work, track progress and report the status of activity across that flows across dozens of departments in real-time. HighGear provides business unit managers with real-time visibility into the status of operations to dramatically improve efficiency, increase productivity and quickly respond to changing market conditions to accelerate digital transformation. Whether HighGear is installed on-premise or hosted in the cloud, IT departments can easily control authentication and integrate with internal or external systems, while meeting enterprise-grade security requirements. HighGear has been trusted by leading enterprises worldwide for more than 15 years to power mission-critical processes for companies in regulated industries while meeting complex compliance requirements for customers such as NASA, Baillie Gifford, TransCanada, Fifth Third Bank and more. To learn more about HighGear’s no-code workflow platform, schedule a product demo or join HighGear’s global customer community, please visit https://www.HighGear.com.

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SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)
April 30, 2020

Executive advisory firm Newport Board Group, LLC continues to expand, announcing today the admission of Mr. Bill Rusitzky, an experienced and skilled executive as a member of the LLC and Partner in its Northern California/San Francisco practice.

Bill brings decades of technical and business expertise to help CEOs and private equity clients restructuring and transforming their business in today’s challenging environment, aligning them for future success. Bill’s background at developing strategy, driving innovation, and enhancing execution will be highly valuable to Netport’s clients. During his career, he has helped companies create products, align teams, leverage industry partnerships, and evaluate and manage acquisitions. At Adobe, Informatica, THX, as well as several start-ups, he has defined a process for driving innovation to create exceptional customer experiences and solutions to customer challenges, building new paths to revenue.

“Bill Rusitzky is an industry leader and significant addition to Newport’s partner team. He will lead teams serving our clients focused on accelerating business optimization efforts, including Go-To-Market – sales, partnerships, turnarounds, driving innovation, and creating customer value,” said Mike Evans, Managing Director of Newport Board Group’s Northern California office. “We are confident Bill’s senior-level expertise, outstanding reputation, and trusted connections will be invaluable to Newport’s clients tackling their unique complex challenges and opportunities.”

At Newport, Mr. Rusitzky’s focus will be advising executive teams, boards of directors and investor groups on restructuring to position the company for the years ahead. He will help clients develop growth strategies, sales and partnership process, strategic planning, operational improvements. Bill has the skills when needed by Newport’s clients to be an interim and/or turnaround executive. Bill will be available to serve clients nationally across the Newport network.

“I am excited to join Newport’s group of experienced industry-leading partners to help accelerate our client’s businesses. The Newport team shares my passion for helping companies restructure and transform to position them for today’s environment and the future,” said Bill.

Bill and his family live in San Francisco.

Newport Board Group is a unique national professional services firm of CEOs, senior executives and board members who collaborate to serve emerging growth and entrepreneurial middle-market companies and the private equity firms that invest in them. By working together in local practices in major cities and across the country, Newport partners create solutions to help clients improve their performance and valuation and become more transaction-ready.

Bill is a partner in the San Francisco office and can be contacted at bill rusitsky@newportllc.com

+ 1 (415) 706-1543

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SAN FRANCISCO (PRWEB)
April 30, 2020

SourceScrub LLC, an information services platform for the financial services industry, is excited to announce that Steve Norall, CEO of Vocal Video, has joined their Board of Directors.

Norall brings more than 25 years of software operating experience as a serial entrepreneur and was the former Chief Product Officer at SurveyMonkey, Inc. He has built and led high performance teams across sales, marketing, customer success, product and engineering. He founded TechValidate Software, Inc. in 2007 and grew it profitably until 2015 when it was acquired by SurveyMonkey. Currently, he is the CEO and founder of Vocal Video, Inc., a software company that helps marketers and small businesses create compelling video testimonials.

SourceScrub was founded by Tyler Fair and Prescott Nasser in 2015 to help investment professionals source, qualify, and track companies using a database of private business information.

“From my own experiences as a founder, I recognize how difficult it is to build a fast-growing business like SourceScrub. Tyler and Prescott have built something very special,” says Norall. “I’m thrilled to partner with them and the entire SourceScrub team to help the company achieve its aggressive growth plans in expanding its footprint in the financial services industry.”

“Steve’s experience with TechValidate as a bootstrapped business, followed by his tenure at SurveyMonkey, allows him to bring a unique perspective to our business. We’re growing fast and our market is dynamic, so having someone with Steve’s experience is a huge win for the company.” says SourceScrub CEO, Tyler Fair.

In November of 2019, SourceScrub announced that it had received a growth equity investment from Mainsail Partners, a San Francisco-based growth equity firm. “We have known Steve for a long time and have tremendous respect for his experience as a successful founder and technology leader,” says Gavin Turner, Managing Partner at Mainsail Partners. “We welcome Steve to the SourceScrub team and are excited to have him join our Mainsail family.”

About SourceScrub

SourceScrub, LLC is a leading data service covering purely private companies. Founded in 2015, the company services hundreds of renowned financial institutions helping them research, find and connect with private companies. SourceScrub leverages both human editing and machine learning techniques to build a comprehensive and accurate data set. The Company has over 1 million companies in its database which is refreshed entirely every 30 days. Over 80% of the private companies covered have no existing venture capital or private equity investment providing its customers a unique data service.

About Mainsail Partners

Mainsail Partners is a San Francisco-based growth equity firm that invests exclusively in fast-growing, bootstrapped software companies. The firm has raised over $1.2 billion and invested in more than 50 growing companies since 2003. Mainsail prioritizes investments in enterprise software companies with compelling business models and at least $4 million in recurring revenue. The firm’s approach to driving value creation is anchored in a dedicated Operations Team that is purpose-built to help founders scale their businesses and accelerate growth. These women and men include former software company operators who leverage real-world experience, well-established best practices, and a true partnership ethos to support management teams. For more, visit mainsailpartners.com.

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WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif. (PRWEB)
April 29, 2020

“I am excited to welcome David to the Nations Info team,” Tim Chin, CEO said. “His entrepreneurial mindset, track record of success and his ‘superstar’ career make him an ideal leader to build on the great work that this team has built so far. I am even more optimistic about Nation Info’s future success when a talent as highly regarded as David joins us.”

Most recently, Teng served as the Vice President and General Manager of Ebates where he built their Asia business from scratch generating over $350m in gross merchandise volume in 5 years. He built a team of nearly 100 people in 4 Asian Pacifc countries and established business direction, new product development, marketing strategies with necessary HR, finance, and legal support. Prior to Ebates, Teng also worked as the Director of Marketing and Product Management, Asia for Living Social, and VP of Marketing, China for Groupon. He also served on the Board of Fanli Inc for the last 3 years. Teng holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from University of California Berkeley and a Master of Business Administration from MIT Sloan School of Management.

“I am excited to lead this extraordinary company as Nations Info’s President,” said Teng. “I look forward to working closely with our exceptional executive team, along with Tim. The opportunity that lies ahead for us is enormous. We have a talented team and I am honored to help lead us forward.”

About Nations Info Corp

Founded in 2005, Nations Info Corp (http://www.NationsInfoCorp.com) is a leading online provider of real estate and financial information services to consumers, investors, and professionals. The company’s overarching objective is to aggregate and synthesize massive amounts of data, which is otherwise difficult to find and interpret, into formats on its websites which are easy to access, use, and ultimately empowering for its customers. Our goal is to present information through our websites which can help our customers make informed decisions to identify opportunities to improve their lives, protect their identity and create personal connections to enhance their businesses and personal network.

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TORONTO (PRWEB)
April 29, 2020

I Info-Tech Research Group, a leading IT research and advisory firm announced that Naveen Kumar, vice president, consulting services, has been awarded the ‘2020 Global Technology Executives Who Matter Award’.

HMG Strategy, the world’s largest independent provider of executive networking events and thought leadership, annually recognizes technology leaders who have demonstrated unparalleled leadership in areas such as innovation, business transformation, courageous leadership, and digital disruption.

Since the inception of its Transformational CIO Awards in 2012, HMG Strategy, the world’s largest independent provider of executive networking events and thought leadership to support the 360-degree needs of technology leaders, has been recognizing the industry’s premier technology executives who make a strategic difference in their organizations.

This recognition program honors top-performing Chief Information Officers, Chief Information Security Officers, and other Senior Technology Leaders who have demonstrated exceptional leadership in the areas of business innovation, transformation, exceptional leadership, talent development and digital disruption.

With nearly two decades of incisive business strategy, deep technology expertise, and extensive operations knowledge Naveen is a trusted advisor to global IT leaders. He is quoted in financial and national publications and is a frequent speaker at conferences across North America.

“Our annual awards recognize the contributions and achievements those executives who have the ability to lead, reimagine and reinvent their companies and their business models and demonstrate leadership in action,” said Hunter Muller, president and chief executive officer, HMG Strategy. “It is my honor to present this award to Naveen, for the second year in a row, in recognition of his commitment to drive innovation, strengthen relationships with customers and for his continued focus on delivering a competitive edge for clients and customers.”

Naveen has built his knowledge of business and technology working in multinational organizations such as Citigroup, IBM, JP Morgan, and KPMG. As part of Info-Tech’s consulting team leadership, Naveen has successfully driven a high-growth agenda to help the team compete successfully, on a global scale.

“With the growing emphasis on technology and innovation to help us achieve business goals, it has become even more important to focus on transforming people, who are at the core of every business transformation exercise. This couldn’t be truer at a time like this when organizations the world over are facing an unprecedented crisis due to the pandemic. What will help leaders stand apart is their ability to overcome this challenge, without negatively impacting clients, customers, internal and external stakeholders including employees,” said Naveen Kumar, vice president, consulting services, Info-Tech Research Group. “Our leadership practice must be based on a foundation of authenticity, transparency and people-centricity. Technology can only enhance the process of getting things done through these strong symbiotic relationships. HMG Strategy enables such relationships, by creating trust and success. To receive this honor from such an industry leader, for the second year in a row is deeply humbling and I feel extremely proud as I accept this award.”

Naveen will receive the award at HMG Strategy’s 2020 Toronto CIO Executive Leadership Summit on June 3, 2020.

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About Info-Tech Research Group

Info-Tech Research Group is one of the fastest growing full-service research and analyst firms in North America, serving more than 40,000 IT and HR professionals. With offices in Canada, the United States, and Australia, Info-Tech offers pragmatic analyst insights and actionable tools to IT departments from world-class organizations such as NASA, New Balance, Spotify, and the United Nations. Info-Tech Research Group’s divisions include McLean & Company, myPolicies, and SoftwareReviews.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (PRWEB)
April 29, 2020

Supporting Managed Services Clients With 14 Years Experience

Mainstream Technologies is pleased to announce the hiring of Ben Pense as Senior Managed Services Engineer. He will be providing support for managed service clients, which can range from simple workstation issues to complex matters related to client servers and network infrastructure.

Before joining Mainstream, Pense was with the city of Ft. Smith for 10 ½ years where he began as an IT support specialist and rose to Enterprise Architect. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems-Networking from the U of A/Ft. Smith. Prior to that, he graduated from the Arkansas School for Math, Science and Arts in Hot Springs.

Ben, his future wife and their two daughters live in Ft. Smith as he works remotely for Mainstream. He enjoys playing the guitar when he has time.

According to Justin Leavell, Director of IT: “Ben adds extensive networking knowledge and senior level experience to our team, making it even stronger than it was before.”

ABOUT MAINSTREAM

Since 1996, Mainstream (http://www.mainstream-tech.com) has evolved into one of the most established IT services companies in the Mid-South, serving clients from its Arkansas locations including headquarters in Little Rock, a second operations facility in Conway, as well as a sales office in Bentonville. Their staff of information technology professionals serves business and government customers across the nation with Managed IT Services, Custom Software Development Services, Cyber Security Services, and Hosting.

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