Kony Solutions Appoints Silicon Valley Veteran as CMO

Kony Solutions, the leading mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) provider, announced that it has appointed Harold Goldberg to the newly created position of Chief Marketing Officer. In this position, Goldberg will lead Kony’s corporate and product marketing functions, as well as act as the company’s chief marketing strategist.

“Kony is experiencing explosive growth. We just finished another record year, and we continue to earn the business of some of the world’s largest enterprises. Our biggest challenge clearly isn’t technology – it is market awareness. We are delighted to have Harold join the Kony team, as he will be instrumental in helping us achieve our goals for better visibility among our target customers,” said Raj Koneru, CEO of Kony.

Goldberg has more than 25 years of experience in the enterprise software market, and has led sales and marketing organizations at startups as well as Fortune 500 companies.

“The mobile landscape is changing incredibly fast, and as a leader, Kony is uniquely well-positioned to capitalize on this market opportunity. My priority is to enable Kony to continue building on its strong foundation and position the company to take advantage of this explosive market growth,” said Goldberg.

Prior to Kony, Goldberg was CMO and vice president of strategy for Merced Systems, the leading Sales and Service Performance Management company, which was recently acquired by NICE Systems. Prior to Merced, Goldberg was the CEO of Zend Technologies, the open source company behind PHP, a key scripting language for web development. He has also held senior marketing and management positions at BMC Software and at Remedy, where he played a key role in BMC's acquisitions of several companies and in Remedy's acquisition by BMC.

About Kony Solutions

Kony is the industry’s leading mobile enterprise application platform (MEAP) provider, with more than 70 of the Fortune 500 among its customers.

Kony enables companies to deliver innovative mobile solutions on every mobile device. Leveraging the KonyOne Platform, an application is defined just once, and can be deployed across more than 9,000 devices, 7 operating systems and multiple channels, including native, HTML5 and mobile web, hybrid, mixed-mode, social media, SMS/MMS, kiosks, desktop and tablet applications. KonyOne provides a universal framework that ensures the best user experience by optimizing all native capabilities for each device operating system and browser. Given the market's rapid rate of device and platform upgrades, Kony future proofs applications against OS and browser updates, providing SLAs that guarantee timely support of the newest operating systems and devices. Leading global brands have built mobile applications with KonyOne, including Hotwire, Huntington Bank, Hyatt, Toyota and Capital One.

In 2011 Kony was positioned as a “Visionary” in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Mobile Consumer Application Platforms (MCAP) report. Kony has been named a Gartner Cool Vendor, a ‘Most Innovative Company of the Year’ by the American Business Awards and was chosen as one of Fast Company’s 100 innovative Apple-affiliated achievers.

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