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Silicon Valley Sales Executive Joins Cendura Corporation
Cendura Corporation, the leader in IT
governance solutions for enterprises, today announced that Stephen Nicol
was named Vice President of Field Operations, and will direct the company's
sales initiatives as well as professional services and support.
"Steve brings a strong entrepreneurial spirit to Cendura from his
experience as co-founder of Pumatech, and is well experienced in building
world-class sales organizations," commented Pavan Nigam, CEO, Cendura.
"With strong management and strategic skills, he's a great addition to our
executive team at this critical juncture."
Most recently, Mr. Nicol was Senior Vice President of Sales and Support at
Accela Corporation, a provider of government enterprise management software
solutions, where he was responsible for worldwide revenue and customer
support. He was co-founder and Senior Vice President of Sales for
Pumatech, Inc., where he grew revenue from zero to $40 million dollars. Mr.
Nicol managed Pumatech through a successful IPO, resulting in a market
capitalization of $4 billion dollars, and during his tenure, Pumatech
became a leading supplier to the Fortune 1000.
Prior to that, he was Director of Far East Sales for Systemsoft Corporation
and OEM Sales Manager for Western Digital Corporation. He began his career
as a sales representative for Hewlett Packard Corporation.
A graduate of Princeton University, in 2000, the Harvard Business School
Alumnae Association named him as "Entrepreneur of the Year."
ABOUT CENDURA
Cendura is the leading IT governance solutions provider. With support for
enterprise platforms running AIX, HP/UX, Linux, Windows, and Solaris and
over 130 customizable Blueprints of commercially available applications,
operating systems, databases, Web servers, application servers, and
messaging systems, the Cohesion(TM) Foundation delivers the most
comprehensive and heterogeneous platform available to business for
discovering, understanding, and controlling distributed, business-critical
applications and services. The Cohesion Suite is the foundation to leverage
ITIL processes, simplify change management, correct application
configuration drift, align business services, enforce IT governance
policies, improve business continuity, ensure audit and compliance, enable
migration and consolidation planning, accelerate proactive forensics, and
intelligently configure services for dynamic IT environments. Cendura
customers are members of the Global 2000 and include VeriSign, Inc.,
Homestore, Inc. and Medtronic. A privately held company, Cendura is funded
by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Crosslink Capital and NeoCarta. For
more information about Cendura, call 866.263.3911 or visit www.cendura.com.
Cendura, Cohesion and Blueprint are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Cendura Corporation.
Media Contact:
Francie Coulter
Cendura Corporation
650.625.5517
francie.coulter@cendura.com