GoodData Appoints Radovan Janecek as Senior Vice President of Engineering

SAN FRANCISCO, CA and PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC--(Marketwired - Mar 18, 2014) - GoodData®, the leader in cloud business intelligence, today announced the addition of Radovan Janecek as Senior Vice President of Engineering. Janecek's more than 15 years of experience in startup and large scale research and development management will support future innovation in GoodData's Open Analytics Platform and prepare the engineering team for continued growth.

"Radovan's deep cloud architecture experience and understanding of both business and IT needs make him a critical addition to the GoodData leadership team," said Roman Stanek, founder and CEO of GoodData. "As we continue to grow our Open Analytics Platform, I am thrilled to welcome Radovan, who brings the right talent and insight to foster continued engineering excellence."

Janecek most recently served as Vice President of Engineering for Cloud Automation at Hewlett-Packard. He also served as Chief Architect of Business Technology Optimization, an enterprise software product portfolio of HP Software, Vice President of Engineering at CA Technologies, and co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Systinet, a SOA Governance vendor.

"Big data is to business what virtualization and cloud are to IT -- it represents a tectonic shift in self-service, cost, flexibility, speed, and even the basic ability to embrace ever-growing volumes of information," said Janecek. "By marrying cloud and big data, GoodData is uniquely positioned as BI's first truly end-to-end Open Analytics Platform as a Service. I am excited to join GoodData as we help our customers achieve greater insight by leveraging all data."

Radovan's priorities at GoodData include continued alignment of business and technology goals, innovating the platform along customer needs, and leading the growing engineering team.

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