Managed Data Holdings Appoints Companywide Sales, Marketing Leader
Don Goodwin To Serve As Executive Vice President – Sales, Marketing and Channel Partnerships
21-year proven industry veteran joins MDH to accelerate growth, drive marketing efforts and grow strategic channel partnerships
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
FAIRFAX, Va. (Sept. 8, 2008) –Managed Data Holdings, a leading operator of state-of-the-art data centers, announced today that it has hired Don Goodwin as Executive Vice President – Sales, Marketing and Channel Partnerships.
Goodwin will be responsible for driving the sales for the company’s three current data centers, implementing an aggressive marketing strategy aimed at further establishing MDH’s data center presence in Chicago, Denver, and Irvine, Calif., and developing the company’s strategic channel partner relationships.
Goodwin brings to MDH more than 21 years of sales and marketing experience, with significant accomplishments in the expansion of sales organizations in the colocation, managed services and managed hosting industry. Prior to joining MDH, Goodwin was the Vice President – Enterprise Hosting for NTT America, where he led direct and managed sales, account management, marketing, product and solution engineering for the national operating unit of the world’s largest telecommunications company. Prior to his work at NTT, Goodwin spent nearly six years at Savvis Communications, where he was responsible for Global Strategic Alliances and Alternate Channel Sales during Savvis’ growth phase. Previously, he held several key management positions at Colo.com and started his career with MCI. Goodwin holds a Bachelor of Science, Finance, degree from Northern Illinois University.
“Don has a tremendous track record in developing high performance sales and marketing engines that focus on all available channels and rapid revenue growth,” said Pete Stevenson, MDH’s Chief Executive Officer. “He is a seasoned sales and marketing executive who knows the industry, the markets we operate in and the key trends that are driving our business strategy and growth. He is a team player who brings industry expertise to MDH that will put us in a great position to scale our sales organization for our next phase of growth and build on the strong operating performance of our existing team. He is very hands-on and will be a great asset to our General Managers, as he takes a very business-oriented approach to solving challenges. Ultimately, he will help to accelerate the growth in all our data centers, and specifically our new Oak Brook facility outside Chicago.”
Said Goodwin, “I look forward to working with the talented employees throughout MDH’s business, building long term relationships with all our current and prospective customers, and dedicating the time to learn their requirements.”
About Managed Data Holdings
Managed Data Holdings (MDH) was founded by three highly experienced industry executives in conjunction with Great Hill Partners and Catalyst Investors. MDH’s strategy is aimed at operating state-of-the-art data centers across suburban Tier I and Tier II markets in the U.S. to meet the increasing demand for managed hosting, managed services, colocation space and disaster recovery services required by small and medium-sized business customers or divisions of large enterprises. All MDH data centers are designed to accommodate the changing power density and cooling needs of the colocation market while maintaining consistent high levels of customer service and support. MDH data centers include Data393 in Denver, Stargate in Oak Brook, Ill. and InteleNet Communications in Irvine, Calif. For more information visit: http://manageddataholdings.com
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ProConnect PR for Managed Data Holdings
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