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Host Analytics Appoints Former Cisco, IronPort, HP Executive to Chief Financial Officer
Experienced Software Strategist Kelly Bodnar Battles Takes Host Analytics' Financial, Legal and HR Reins
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REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - June 17, 2009) - Host Analytics, the leader in
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) corporate performance management (CPM), added
to its senior management team with the appointment today of Kelly Bodnar
Battles to Chief Financial Officer. Ms. Battles comes to Host Analytics
from Cisco Systems via its acquisition of IronPort Systems, where she was a
key member of the leadership team that successfully grew the company and
positioned it for a highly valuable exit. In her new role Ms. Battles will
be responsible for all finance and accounting functions as well as Legal
and HR.
"This is a very strategic hire for Host Analytics," said Jon Kondo, CEO at
Host Analytics. "Kelly has primary experience dealing with many of the
challenges and opportunities we will face, including building a finance
team, fundraising, and implementing the back-office systems and processes
needed for explosive growth. She is particularly excited about being the
#1 spokesperson for Host Analytics products and will ensure that we
continue to highlight our internal use of all of our solutions to the
fullest. We are delighted to welcome Kelly to the Host Analytics team."
The appointment of Ms. Battles caps an exciting three months for the SaaS
CPM leader. Since April Host Analytics has increased its valuation via a
Series B financing; launched new CPM products for large and midmarket
enterprises; introduced a series of new high-impact technology
partnerships; unveiled a social networking community for customers; and
surpassed the 8,000 paying-user milestone. Host Analytics also was named
to JMP Securities' Hot 100: Best Privately Held Software Companies list for
2009.
Prior to joining Host Analytics Ms. Battles was Vice President of Finance
at IronPort Systems. During her six-year tenure the company grew from $2M
to $250M in annual bookings and was sold to Cisco Systems in 2007. Before
IronPort, Ms. Battles was a Director in HP's Strategy and Corporate
Development group, a Strategy Consultant with McKinsey and Company, and a
Corporate Finance Associate at J.P. Morgan. Kelly graduated with a B.S.E.
from Princeton and an M.B.A. from Harvard, both with honors.
About Host Analytics
Host Analytics is the leading provider of on-demand corporate and financial
performance management solutions. Host Analytic's solutions help financial,
line of business and departmental executives improve their budgeting, forecasting, financial
consolidations, dashboarding, scorecarding, reporting
and analysis. Host Analytics delivers its suite of corporate
performance management solutions via the Software as a
Service (SaaS) model. Host Analytics, a pioneer in providing
comprehensive and easy to use CPM solutions, was founded in 2000 and
expanded its SaaS offering in 2005 to include a complete suite of CPM
solutions.
Host Analytics helps organizations streamline the performance management
process, align the planning process with business strategy and effectively
measure performance and manage change. As a SaaS delivered solution, Host
Analytics customers realize fast time to value through quick implementation
of solutions, the highest levels of user adoption, effective empowerment of
business users and a continuous flow of Host Analytics provided solution
innovations and improvements.
Host Analytics serves the enterprise, large and midsized company and public
sector markets including industry leading companies like JP Morgan Chase,
Procter & Gamble, Otis Spunkmeyer, Pitney Bowes, and Red Roof Inn. Host
Analytics was included in JMP Securities' prestigious "Hot 100: The Best
Privately Held Software Companies." For additional information, visit
http://www.hostanalytics.com/ or call (314) 588-2121.
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