AppNeta Expands Management Team with Experienced IT Leaders

AppNeta, the only provider of instant-value network performance management solutions, today announced the recent expansion of the leadership team with the addition of Chief Financial Officer David O’Connor, Vice President of Business Development Greg Casale and Director of Sales Phil Johnson. AppNeta’s award-winning PathView Cloud solutions leverage a zero-administration, cloud-based service to meet the performance demands of today’s distributed network infrastructure and mainstream network-dependent applications including unified communications, cloud services and virtual service delivery.

“This new management team brings extensive experience and expertise that will continue to propel us forward as a leader in cloud-based network performance management,” said Jim Melvin, CEO of AppNeta. “I am confident that David, Greg and Phil will accelerate the remarkable growth and momentum we have seen in our first year of service.”

David O’Connor has joined AppNeta with more than 20 years of experience with both venture backed and growth equity stage companies from pre-revenue to $100M in revenue. Prior to AppNeta, O’Connor was the CFO of Service CEO, a SaaS software company focused on the field service management industry where O’Connor contributed to the successful transition from a client server business to a SaaS business. Prior to Service CEO, O’Connor was CFO of Oblicore, a global cloud computing service level management enterprise software company acquired by CA and rolled into their Cloud service business unit.

In his role as vice president of business development for AppNeta, Greg Casale is responsible for developing strategic alliances with technology providers, channel partners, and OEMs in the areas of cloud services and infrastructure, VoIP and video, and web applications. Prior to joining AppNeta, Greg served as president and CEO of Starbak, Inc., a leading provider of IP video communications solutions acquired by BurstPoint Networks. Prior to Starbak, Greg was VP, sales and business development at Digital Media On Demand, and head of business development for SightPath, a pioneering developer of content delivery networks acquired by Cisco.

Phil Johnson joins AppNeta as the director of sales, bringing many years of successful leadership of sales organizations, most recently as the director of sales at Vault USA where he developed and built up the sales process, strategy and inside sales team. Prior to Vault, Johnson was the manager of inside sales for RSA, The Security Division of EMC where he led his team to achieve $36M in Revenue within the Commercial, Enterprise and Federal Government sectors.

About AppNeta

AppNeta delivers instant-value network performance management solutions required to drive exceptional application performance across all data center, cloud, remote office and mobile environments. AppNeta’s award-winning PathView Cloud solutions leverage a zero administration, cloud-based service to meet the performance demands of today’s distributed network infrastructure and mainstream network-dependent applications including unified communications, cloud services and virtual service delivery. With more than 1,000 customers worldwide, AppNeta provides unmatched end-to-end performance insight to network engineers and IT outsourcers, enabling predictable and efficient delivery of today’s business-critical application services from wherever they originate to wherever they are consumed. www.appneta.com