CHARLOTTE, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Adaptivity, The IT Blueprint Company, which provides an intelligent IT blueprinting software suite, announced today that Philip S. Walton, former Vice President of Hewlett-Packard Company responsible for the Americas Financial Services Vertical Division, has joined the Company as President and CEO and a member of its Board of Directors.
“We are pleased to announce that Phil Walton has joined us as our new President and CEO and member of the Board. Phil has a proven track record of driving sales growth in the financial institutions market, our key vertical market. He has developed significant relationships with CIO’s and CTO’s of the top global financial institutions and worked with over 30 industry leaders on HP’s Financial Services Industry Board of Advisors. His in-depth knowledge of the technology and information needs and priorities of our target customers makes him perfectly suited to engage them on the extensive benefits of using our Blueprint4IT Lifecycle SuiteTM of software products and services. Phil also has a proven track record of developing mutually successful partnering relationships with leading systems integrators for the delivery of technology product and services to leading financial institutions, an area of significant growth opportunity for our Company. We are absolutely delighted that he will be leading our executive team,” said George Mackie, Chairman of the Board of Adaptivity.
Prior to joining HP, Mr. Walton was a Managing Director for IBM responsible for managing the Bank of America relationship globally. He joined IBM on its acquisition of the PricewaterhouseCoopers consulting practice where he was a partner in their Financial Institutions vertical market.
“Adaptivity’s Blueprint4IT Lifecycle SuiteTM of products and services are perfectly positioned to assist financial institutions and other large enterprises interested in the benefits of cloud computing technologies, data center transformation and application optimization,” said Mr. Walton. “I am tremendously excited to join Adaptivity and to use my extensive industry experience and relationships to drive sales growth of its leading technology products and services and continued innovative technology leadership. Adaptivity’s software suite is exceptionally well positioned to meet today’s top IT priorities: (a) transitioning to the Cloud, (b) consolidating and optimizing infrastructure and improving infrastructure performance and agility, (c) optimizing applications, and (d) meeting compliance and risk requirements.”
Adaptivity’s Blueprint4IT Lifecycle SuiteTM delivers a repeatable, scalable, fit-for-purpose infrastructure planning and design process that aligns IT to the business and allows the enterprise to take advantage of the best deployment models for any given workload.
About Adaptivity
Founded in 2007 to help companies address the complexities associated with IT design and implementation, Adaptivity’s Blueprint4ITTM Software Suite and Services provides the design precision and automation to create tailored blueprints and prescriptive roadmaps for enterprise cloud programs that integrate architecture, engineering and system operations into business-optimized IT designs. This enables intelligent IT design decisions to be integrated into best practices and to drive repeatable, efficient actions across the technology build and deployment lifecycle. For more information, visit www.adaptivity.com.