Customer engagement company Airship
today announced four senior leadership appointments including Dale
Flores as vice president of sales Americas, Neil Gariepy as vice
president of infrastructure and security, David King Harris as vice
president of sales EMEA, and Jeff Winsor as vice president of technology
services.
Dale Flores will lead the rapid expansion of Airship’s Americas sales
organization, growing solution adoption to generate greater business
value for customers throughout the region. Flores brings two decades of
global SaaS sales and customer success management experience to Airship,
including over 14 years leading sales teams at Silverpop and IBM. Most
recently, Flores was head of customer success at digital customer
experience company Clicktale.
Neil Gariepy will lead Airship’s customer engineering, infrastructure
and security teams, with responsibility for expanding Airship’s
infrastructure globally while further optimizing its cost, performance
and security. Gariepy brings 20 years of experience in leading
engineering, security and infrastructure operations for SaaS companies,
including 16 years leading world-class cloud applications and
infrastructure processes for NetSuite. Most recently, Neil was vice
president of engineering and information security at Percolate, an
enterprise content management company.
David King Harris will lead Airship’s EMEA sales organization directing
regional growth from the company’s new London office in Southwark and
its locations in France and Germany. King-Harris brings nearly a decade
of sales leadership experience driving European business objectives for
martech companies including Lyris, Silverpop, IBM and, most recently,
Movable Ink as regional vice president sales EMEA. Prior to that,
King-Harris founded a project management company at 18 years old, which
he led for eight years before acquisition.
An Airship veteran, Jeff Winsor has been promoted to the role of vice
president of technology services where he will lead Airship’s program
management, technical documentation and quality assurance teams. Winsor
brings more than 25 years of experience in leading engineering teams and
project management, including six years leading Airship’s program
management function that spanned leadership of several different
technical teams. Prior to Airship, Winsor held executive level roles at
Tektronix, Read-Rite Corporation and Flexstar Technology.
These leadership appointments follow the unveiling of Airship’s
new brand last month, conveying its dramatic growth in engagement
solutions spanning any digital channel and its pivotal role in fueling
customer-centric digital transformation initiatives for world-leading
brands. Earlier this year, the company acquired Accengage
to form the world’s largest mobile customer engagement company and
solidify its global market dominance.
“By any measure or independent evaluation, Airship leads the market it
pioneered 10 years ago—-and it’s due to the hundreds of Airshippers
innovating and delivering business solutions to customers everyday,”
said Brett Caine, CEO and president, Airship. “Dale, Neil, David and
Jeff bring an incredible set of leadership skills to further refine and
scale our teams, technology and expertise to best serve Airship’s
expanding global customer base.”
About Airship
Marketing and digital experience teams at thousands
of the world’s most admired companies rely on Airship’s Customer
Engagement Platform to create deeper connections with customers by
delivering incredibly relevant, coordinated messages across channels.
Founded in 2009 as a pioneer in push notifications, Airship now gives
brands the user-level data, engagement channels, AI orchestration and
services they need to deliver push notifications, emails, SMS, in-app
messages, mobile wallet cards and more to exactly the right person in
exactly the right moment — building trust, boosting engagement, driving
action and growing value.
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