BOSTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Vordel, a provider of gateways for SOA and the Cloud Computing, today announced the appointment of Dick Agin, who joins the company as Regional Sales Director for US Central and will be based in Texas. Agin’s experience includes domestic and international sales management positions at Salesforce.com, BEA Systems, TIBCO Software, USinterworking Inc and Motorola among others spanning more than twenty five years of industry experience. Agin’s appointment will enable Vordel to further its North American expansion and focus on the US Central region. Currently, the US represents approximately 50% per cent of the company’s business with customers including the US Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, Bell Canada and FAA among others.
Agin joins Vordel from Salesforce.com, where he was a Global Account Manager responsible for the media and communications industry group covering accounts in Texas, Arkansas and Colorado. Prior to Salesforce.com he was an Area Director for emerging technologies with BEA Systems responsible for sales, as well as developing and executing sales and marketing strategy for BEA’s virtualization products throughout the Americas. In a previous role at BEA Systems, he was responsible for integration and SOA products focusing on South Central US and Latin American regions. Prior to this position, Agin held the role of Global Alliance Director at TIBCO Software, Inc with a global leadership responsibility for all indirect sales, go-to-market strategies, training, support and service.
"Dick has a wealth of experience that matches Vordel’s requirements. He combines a track record of strong sales management skills and extensive experience in providing cloud based services and applications and creating alliances to improve partner distribution channels. These attributes are a great fit with Vordel’s innovation-driven and customer-oriented culture," said Ed Jackowiak, VP North America for Vordel. "We are excited to have Ed on our team to lead the next stage of Vordel’s expansion in US Central which is an important region for the company."
"Vordel's strong US and international presence, global customer-base and world-class product easily convinced me to join the company at this exciting time," said Dick Agin. He continued, "I see significant opportunities to further grow the Vordel brand in existing and new markets and am excited to join a fast-paced, high-growth company delivering exceptional technology to the market.”
Vordel currently has offices in Boston, Washington DC, California, New York and an international network of offices in Dublin, Duesseldorf, London, Madrid and Paris.
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Vordel delivers fast, safe, connectivity for SOA and Cloud services. Customers rely on Vordel to increase performance, strengthen security and enhance interoperability in SOA and Cloud deployments. Businesses leverage Vordel's unique management capability to govern service usage and enable the efficient running of applications in SOA or Cloud architectures. Vordel has Fortune 500 customers in banking, healthcare, insurance, manufacturing, media, pharmaceutical, telecoms, utilities and government organizations. Customers include Allianz, ASR Netherland, BAT, Bell Canada, BNP Paribas Fortis Bank, EU Council, FAA, US Departments of Homeland Security and Justice among others. To learn more and obtain a free evaluation of Vordel's products, go to: www.vordel.com and follow us on twitter and our blogs