AdventNet Announces New Sales Leadership to Grow and Scale the
Organization
San Jose, CA -- August 14 2000:
AdventNet, the Internet Management Infrastructure Company(TM),
announced today that Mr. Kumar Padmini has taken over responsibility
of world-wide sales, in addition to his marketing responsibilities.
Announcing this, Dr. Tony Thomas, Chairman and Chief Architect said,
"Our phenomenal growth over the past year, when we tripled
our revenues and doubled our employee count, has pointed to
the need to scale our sales organization to match our exceptional
engineering capabilities. Kumar, with his decade-long of experience
at HP, is the ideal person for scaling the sales organization
to where we need to go. We are excited to have him lead this effort."
Dr. Sridhar Vembu, Chief Evangelist at AdventNet, added, "Kumar
brings a wealth of experience in both direct sales and channel programs.
We need to complement our growing direct sales force with a world-class
channels strategy, and it became clear that bringing marketing and
sales under common leadership is crucial."
Accepting his new responsibility, Mr. Kumar Padmini said, "I
am delighted to be able to contribute to the growth story that is
AdventNet. The breadth and depth of our product portfolio, our diversified
customer base, and our world-wide market coverage all require that
we have a good balance of direct sales and channels strategy. I
will focus my energies to building our direct sales organization
with a mission to develop and nurture long-term relationships with
our customers as well as channel partners."
As part of this change in organizational roles, AdventNet also
announced that Mr. Neil Butani, VP of Business Development, has
left to pursue other opportunities. Dr. Vembu said, "We would
like to thank Neil for his contribution. We wish him well in his
new venture."
AdventNet has been hiring sales and marketing professionals aggressively,
as it penetrates deeper into its various target markets in the broad
Internet and e-commerce infrastructure management space. AdventNet
has been consistently profitable, while maintaining exceptional
quarter-to-quarter growth.
About AdventNet, Inc.
AdventNet, the Internet Management Infrastructure Company(TM),
is the worldwide leader in providing Web and Java based network
management software for OEMs, service providers, integrators and
ISVs. Ease of use, scalability, reliability and extensive customizability
are the hallmarks of AdventNet products. AdventNet products are
powering solutions in many fast growing market segments, including
e-commerce application management, optical networking, cable modem,
DSL, storage management, web hosting and management service providers
(MSPs). AdventNet enables superior solutions with rapid time to
market advantages and all the benefits of new Internet technologies.
AdventNet has offices in CA, Austin, New Jersey, Chennai, Singapore, Tokyo and Beijing. It has a well-trained partner base
around the globe and thousands of customers world-wide. For more
information call +1-925-924-9500 or visit http://www.zohocorp.com.
Note to Editors: AdventNet, The Internet Management
Infrastructure Company, and AdventNet Web NMS are trademarks of
AdventNet, Inc. All other company names may be trademarks of the
respective companies with which they are associated.
Contact:
Ms. Sheela Kumar
AdventNet Public Relations
+1-925-924-9500