What Happened?
San Francisco, CA-based GoGrid appointed Mark Worsey as Chief Information Officer.
About the Company
GoGrid has more than a decade of experience hosting complex infrastructure for businesses around the globe. We’re the world’s #1 pure-play infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider specializing in cloud infrastructure solutions. Currently powering thousands of customers globally, we make complex infrastructure easy by enabling businesses to revolutionize their IT environments in the cloud. In just minutes, our customers can deploy and begin managing existing or new applications and workloads on our proven, secure, and reliable hosted cloud platform.
About the Person
Mark was with Blackhawk Network as the company's CIO & VP Technology and was responsible for driving the technology platform strategy and world-wide network operations for this world leading prepaid and gift card payments processing company. Today, Blackhawk's systems handle the real time activation of gift cards purchased in the majority of grocery retail locations throughout North America. Mark has also held senior technology leadership positions at several industry-changing startups including Xign Corporation and Netscape Communications. Xign delivered revolutionary technology that fully automated financial supply chain operations between large corporations and their vendors. Xign was successfully acquired by JPMorgan Chase. As the VP Engineering & Operations at Netscape, Mark delivered a series of first-time-ever online services including MyNetscape, Netcenter, and the Netscape General Store. Mark?s executive tenure spanned Netscape?s hyper-growth years, acquisition by AOL and subsequently the acquisition of Time Warner. Mark began his career with over a decade of large scale / multi-year systems development initiatives at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).
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