Glassbeam Adds IoT Veterans Dave Westrom and Rick Bullotta to Management and Advisory Team

SANTA CLARA, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 19, 2016) -  Glassbeam, Inc., the machine data analytics company, announced two significant additions to its core management and advisory team: Dave Westrom, former SVP of Business Development at ThingWorx (a division of PTC), is joining Glassbeam's Executive Team as SVP Business Development to drive channel and strategic partnerships and Rick Bullotta, co-founder and CTO of ThingWorx, is joining the Glassbeam Advisory Board.

Glassbeam is focused on helping leading product manufacturers build truly connected products by providing business intelligence gleaned from a detailed analysis of complex machine data. Glassbeam's unique data transformation technology ingests, parses and analyzes data 100 times faster than competing tools or homegrown solutions. These new additions to the Glassbeam team will help drive momentum for Glassbeam and Glassbeam partners in the IoT industry. 

Rick and Dave are joining the team at a major upward inflection point in the IoT industry. Corporations across many industries are looking to connect their products to ubiquitous IoT networks with a view of understanding their customers much more intimately and are using IoT analytics to transform virtually every business process. Their addition to the Glassbeam team is expected to catalyze significant growth and mindshare expansion for Glassbeam.

"Glassbeam is one of the most exciting Analytics companies in a white-hot IoT industry," says Rick. "They have a very well-rounded engineering and technical team and have built significant IP in the space. The newly added Edge offering is another testament to the company's ability to build products closely aligned with the realities of the Industrial IoT space."

"I am thoroughly impressed by Glassbeam's growth and momentum in the IoT marketplace," comments Dave. "They have an impressive list of customers and partners and are regularly featured by Analysts as one of the most promising companies in the space. Their products are perfectly aligned with the needs of a burgeoning IoT marketplace that desperately needs an easy way to handle complex data."

"Dave and Rick bring a wealth of experience and expertise in the IoT industry to Glassbeam," says Puneet Pandit, CEO of Glassbeam. "They are expected to be key drivers for our growth strategy both from a technical and business standpoint and we stand to immensely benefit from all the capabilities they bring to the table. We look forward to a new era of growth with these significant additions to our team."

About Glassbeam

Glassbeam is the premier machine data analytics company bringing structure and meaning to complex data generated from any connected device in IoT industry. Glassbeam's next generation cloud-based platform is designed to transform and analyze multi-structured data, delivering powerful solutions on customer support and product intelligence for companies including IBM, EMC, Aruba Networks, and Dimension Data. For more information visit http://www.glassbeam.com.