Santa Clara, CA July 1, 2008 – Zeus Technology, a leading provider of application delivery controller software has appointed Travis Reed as General Manager, Americas effective June 1st 2008.
In his previous role as Vice President, Corporate Development, Travis successfully established and drove key strategic partnerships for Zeus, including OEM partnerships and channel development opportunities. In his new role, he will focus on increasing the company sales presence, marketing awareness and channel effectiveness in the US and Canada.
Travis joined Zeus in August 2007 as Vice President, Corporate Development. Prior to that, his wealth of experience includes working as a software analyst on Wall Street, as well as over 10 years experience in selling and marketing technology solutions. He has held previous positions at IBM, BEA, Microsoft and Merrill Lynch.
"Travis’ experience will be invaluable to our US operation as we continue to deliver our software application delivery solutions through our network of dedicated channel partners,” said Paul Brennan, CEO and Chairman of Zeus Technology. “Travis continues to be a strong addition to our worldwide leadership team and he will play an important role in helping us achieve our growth objectives in the US and Canada."
“I am excited to be challenged with building the US and Canadian market for Zeus,” said Travis. “I look forward to leading our experienced channel partners and helping to make them more competitive and successful in the market.”
Originally joining IBM in 1993, Travis moved to the Bay Area with Bowstreet, a Kleiner-Perkins startup in 2000. From there, he worked at BEA and Microsoft before joining the financial services industry as a software research analyst in 2003.
After working for both SoundView and Merrill Lynch, he started his own research firm in 2006, specializing in the software industry. He has MBA degrees from the Haas School of Business and Columbia Graduate School of Business.
Founded in 1995, Zeus Technology provides application delivery software to ensure applications are faster, highly available and easy to manage. Zeus’ ZXTM solution lowers costs for data centre space and power, cuts the cost of bandwidth and offers the highest scalability of any application delivery controller or load balancer in the industry.
As the only software application delivery solution available, the Zeus products are flexible whatever your deployment environment; a purpose-built Zeus appliance, standard servers, blades, or virtualized environments.
Zeus holds strategic partnerships with world-class companies such as AMD, Dell, Egenera, HP, IBM, Intel, Sun Microsystems, Qualcomm and VMware.
Zeus powers over 1 million sites across the world and provides web infrastructure solutions to over 800 customers including, BT, China Telecom, Hotel.de, NASA, PLAY.COM, Federal Railroads Administration, The Institute of Financial Services, STA Travel and Virgin Holidays.
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