VeriCenter Appoints Senior Vice President of Marketing

February 23, 2007; 01:01 AM
VeriCenter, Inc., a leading provider of managed hosting, colocation, and IT outsourcing services, announced in February that it has named Steve Lesem as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer.

In this newly created position, Lesem will report to Gray Hall, President and CEO. His responsibilities will include demand generation, field marketing, communications, business development, analyst relations, and messaging.

“We are delighted that Steve has taken this role within VeriCenter. He is a proven leader and his addition further strengthens our executive team,” said VeriCenter CEO Gray Hall. “Because Steve has been successful in both sales and marketing roles throughout his career, he will provide us with the leadership VeriCenter requires to develop a stronger marketing competency, driven by customer needs and industry demands."

Lesem brings more than 20 years of experience in IT marketing and sales. He was most recently Senior Vice President of worldwide sales for SafeNet, a Maryland based security technology firm. At BMC Software, a Houston based systems management software solution provider, Lesem served in a variety of capacities, including a VP role in Asia Pacific business development and channel programs, VP of Americas Marketing, and VP of Sales and Marketing for BMC's Security Business Unit. Prior to BMC, Lesem held several important sales and marketing positions at IBM including General Manager, PC Server Sales and Marketing for North America.

"I am honored to receive this important assignment and join the VeriCenter team," said Lesem. "VeriCenter’s pace setting growth and leadership of the managed hosting industry are truly exciting. VeriCenter has a world-class industry reputation, great solutions, a seasoned management team, and an extremely strong commitment to their customers. I look forward to working with the team as we accelerate the company's success in this fast, dynamic and rapidly growing market."

About VeriCenter, Inc.

VeriCenter is a leading provider of managed hosting, colocation, and infrastructure services to mid-to-large enterprises. From a nationwide network of seven premier data center facilities, VeriCenter provides a comprehensive range of managed services including management of servers, storage, backups, network, databases, and security to more than 600 business customers in a broad range of industries. Our centralized service delivery model provides a better way to achieve reliability, scalability and cost-effectiveness for IT infrastructure in support of enterprise applications, Web sites, SaaS (software as a service) applications, disaster recovery solutions and general business infrastructure. As a two-time winner of Inc. 500’s fastest-growing companies in the United States, VeriCenter is a market leader in managed hosting services and is ideally positioned to guide enterprises through the long-term industry evolution toward Utility Computing.

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