DALLAS, May 18, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Hostway Services, Inc., has named Steven J. Armond as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He will be responsible for all finance, human resources and legal functions at Hostway.
Armond is a seasoned financial executive with more than 24 years in the technology, healthcare, and manufacturing sectors in both public and private businesses, including Fortune 500 companies, start-ups and mid-size companies.
"Steve’s record of leadership and his executive experience are huge benefits to Hostway as we grow the company and expand into new markets," said Bob Boles, CEO of Hostway. "As we transform the business to a hybrid cloud solution provider, Steve’s breadth of business experience is a wonderful asset and complement to our entire team.”
Before joining Hostway, Armond was the chief financial officer at T-System, a provider of emergency department software and revenue cycle software, where he financially led the company to record revenue and EBITDA growth. He was responsible for accounting and financial operations, information technology, human and administrative resources and the legal/compliance teams.
Prior to joining T-System, Armond was the chief financial officer for publicly traded American CareSource Holdings, an ancillary benefits management company. He also served as chief financial officer for Data Return, an IT operations and hosting company leading up to its acquisition by Terremark, now a part of Verizon.
Armond holds a MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Purdue University. He is licensed as a CPA. He lives in the Dallas area and will be based out of our Dallas office.
About Hostway
Hostway Services, Inc. is a leader in managed cloud infrastructure and application hosting solutions for asset-lite, mid-market and e-commerce focused organizations and the companies that serve them. Its team of engineers in North America and Europe deliver reliable, secure and scalable private cloud, managed server, and hybrid cloud hosting solutions to over 200,000 customers across six geographically diverse datacenters. Hostway’s core products include Managed Hosting, Cloud Hosting, Web Hosting and Email and Applications.
Hostway is redefining what customers can expect from a service provider by delivering the broadest scope of support in the industry, creating an Accountability-as-a-Service mentality that allows clients to focus on using their application rather than maintaining it. And as a leading Microsoft Azure Public and Private Cloud Hosting specialist and Microsoft Gold Partner, our managed cloud hosting solutions are backed by a 24x7x365 team of Azure certified cloud engineers that work directly with customers to enable them to effectively scale and maintain their mission critical applications.
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