BlueCat Appoints Senior Vice President of Global Sales
Key takeawaysThis key takeaway was generated through LLMs crawling the page and coming up with an overview of the content.BlueCat announced the appointment of Barry Saadatmand as Senior Vice President of Global Sales effective January 27, 2020, following significant engineering investments in its Adaptive DNS™ products. The hire brings nearly two decades of enterprise sales leadership experience from growth-stage software companies, notably an eight-year tenure at Ping Identity where Saadatmand helped scale the sales organization through startup, private equity and IPO phases. BlueCat positions this leadership addition as part of its plan to accelerate global adoption of Adaptive DNS™, which it describes as a dynamic, open, secure, scalable and automated DNS platform that supports complex digital transformation initiatives.
Who is Barry Saadatmand and what experience does he bring to BlueCat?
Barry Saadatmand is BlueCat’s Senior Vice President of Global Sales, appointed effective January 27, 2020. He brings approximately two decades of experience leading high-performance sales teams at growth-stage software companies including Ping Identity, Cast Iron Systems, Group 1 Software, and BigFix, Inc. Notably, during his eight years at Ping Identity he led the sales organization for Eastern North America through phases that included startup growth, private equity ownership, and an eventual NYSE initial public offering.
What role will Saadatmand play at BlueCat and why was he hired now?
Saadatmand will lead BlueCat’s growing global sales team and work alongside the executive leadership to accelerate adoption of BlueCat’s Adaptive DNS™. The appointment follows significant engineering investments in BlueCat’s Adaptive DNS products, indicating a strategic timing to expand go-to-market and sales leadership as the company scales its product capabilities and targets broader enterprise adoption of its DNS platform.
What is BlueCat’s Adaptive DNS™ and what problems does it address for organizations?
According to the announcement, BlueCat’s Adaptive DNS™ is a re-imagined DNS platform designed to be dynamic, open, secure, scalable, and automated. It is intended to help the world’s largest organizations manage network complexity from the edge to the core and to support challenging digital transformation initiatives such as hybrid cloud adoption and rapid application development. The platform aims to provide DNS as a resource that integrates with and enables modern, large-scale network and application environments.
TORONTO, ON—January 27, 2020—BlueCat, the Adaptive DNS™ company, today announced that it has appointed Barry Saadatmand as Senior Vice President of Global Sales. Saadatmand brings with him approximately two decades of experience leading high-performance sales teams at growth-stage software companies including Ping Identity, Cast Iron Systems, Group 1 Software, and BigFix, Inc.
Saadatmand’s appointment is effective January 27, 2020, following significant engineering investments in BlueCat’s Adaptive DNS™ products.
Saadatmand will lead BlueCat’s growing global sales team, working alongside the rest of BlueCat’s executive leadership. Saadatmand comes to BlueCat from Ping Identity, a pioneer in Intelligent Identity solutions, where he spent 8 years leading the sales organization for Eastern North America. During this time, the company transformed from early stage startup, to private equity-owned, to undergoing a successful initial public offering (IPO) on the NYSE. Today the company is valued at approximately $2B. Based in Virginia, Saadatmand proudly holds a Bachelor’s in Economics from James Madison University, where he remains active in the alumni and development communities.
“We are thrilled to welcome Barry to our team,” says BlueCat CEO Michael Harris. “His experience leading and growing competitive sales teams is well matched for BlueCat’s plans to accelerate adoption of Adaptive DNS in the coming years.”
About BlueCat:
BlueCat is the Adaptive DNS™ company. The company’s mission is to help the world’s largest organizations thrive on network complexity, from the edge to the core. To do this, BlueCat re-imagined DNS. The result – Adaptive DNS™ – is a dynamic, open, secure, scalable, and automated resource that supports the most challenging digital transformation initiatives, like adoption of hybrid cloud and rapid application development. Learn more at bluecatnetworks.com.
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