PALO ALTO, Calif., March 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Mattermost, the fastest growing messaging platform for engineering teams at large organizations, today announced the appointment of Alexis Schmidt as Vice President of Sales, Matt Stodolnic as Vice President of Marketing and Aneal Vallurupalli as Vice President of Finance. The company also announced the formation of a board of advisors and opened a new San Francisco office to better serve customers in the Bay Area. The San Francisco office joins existing Berlin, London, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. centers.
The three new executives, Stodolnic, Schmidt and Vallurupalli, bring decades of enterprise software experience and success in building fast-growing open source software businesses at companies such as CoreOS, Docker, Hortonworks, Mapbox, Pivotal, SpringSource and Union Square Advisors. Schmidt most recently led sales at CoreOS and previously held senior sales roles at Docker, Hortonworks and SpringSource. Stodolnic most recently led marketing and partnerships at Pantheon and previously held senior marketing roles at Pivotal, VMware, SpringSource and Salesforce.com. Vallurupalli joins Mattermost from Mapbox where he led strategic finance and previously was an investment banker with Union Square Advisors.
“We’re beginning to see a huge acceleration in the demand for Mattermost at Global 2000 companies and high-trust teams in organizations of all sizes,” said Ian Tien, CEO of Mattermost. “Alexis, Matt and Aneal bring proven success in both open source distribution strategy, scaling enterprise software organizations globally and strategic acquisitions. They are a great addition to our leadership team.”
In addition to appointing new leaders in sales and marketing, Mattermost also announced a board of advisors to help guide the company through its next phase of high growth. The new members include:
- Adam Gross - former Heroku CEO, Salesforce VP Developer Marketing;
- Stuart West - current Automattic (Wordpress) CFO, former board member at Wikipedia;
- Zack Urlocker - former Duo Security COO, Zendesk COO, MySQL SVP Marketing;
- Alan Black - former Zendesk CFO, current board member at Looker;
- Lisa McCaffrey - former HashiCorp VP People.
“Mattermost is one of the fastest growing collaboration companies because of their focus on security and the support of a global open source community,” Zack Urlocker said. “They’re shipping a product built by developers for developers.”
About Mattermost
Mattermost’s mission is to make the world safer and more productive by developing and delivering secure, open source collaboration software that is trusted, flexible and offers fast time-to-value. Mattermost’s first product is a collaboration platform built to accelerate DevOps workflows in high-trust environments by offering secure messaging across web, desktop and native mobile devices. www.mattermost.com
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