Former Salesforce.com and IBM Execs Expand Kaseya’s Seasoned Leadership Team
BOSTON, April 7, 2015 – Kaseya®, the leading provider of cloud-based IT management software, today announced two additions to its executive team: Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Brian Serino, and Chief Information Officer (CIO), Mike Puglia.
Brian Serino brings an outstanding track record of success to Kaseya in building high-velocity sales teams and driving them to achieve hyper-growth. Prior to Kaseya, Brian was SVP of sales and business development at NetProspex, where he built the team and grew sales by 100% during his tenure, resulting in a successful acquisition by Dun & Bradstreet. Prior to that, Brian served as the SVP of sales at Neolane where he increased sales by 100%, leading to a successful acquisition by Adobe. Earlier, Brian ran North American Sales at Unica, where he built the sales team and drove revenue from $10 million to over $120 million, supporting the company’s successful IPO and eventual acquisition by IBM.
“I am thrilled to step into the sales leadership role to work with Kaseya’s talented team to aggressively expand our customer base and network of partners around the globe,” said Brian Serino, EVP of worldwide sales at Kaseya. “Given Kaseya’s leadership position in the market and the major enhancements made to Kaseya’s IT management cloud portfolio over the past two years, I look forward to driving the company to new levels of growth and to enabling the continued success of our customers.”
Mike Puglia, a cloud-based solutions veteran, brings more than twenty years of enterprise technology experience to his new post as CIO. Mike most recently served as Kaseya’s vice president of technology programs and prior to that, was the head of marketing for TimeTrade Systems. Mike has a history of success with leading technology companies, having served in leadership positions with Salesforce.com, Veracode and Bluesocket, among others. As CIO, Mike drives Kaseya’s go-to-market systems infrastructure as well as all other key IT functions, strengthening the company’s foundation for growth.
“It is an exciting time at Kaseya, and as we accelerate our growth, our underlying technologies will be an important enabling factor,” said Mike Puglia, CIO of Kaseya. “Kaseya’s leadership team has an impressive record of success in the technology space, and I am thrilled to become a part of it to help drive our growth and customer adoption.”
“Brian and Mike bring a tremendous wealth of experience in enabling and driving the success of Cloud software businesses,” said Yogesh Gupta, president and CEO of Kaseya. “We couldn’t have found two more talented and successful team members to help us take our business and our customer relationships to the next level.”
Kaseya customers can meet Kaseya’s new and existing executives at the annual user conference, Kaseya Connect, scheduled for April 14-16, 2015 at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate in Orlando, FL.