SnapLogic Appoints Industry Veteran Christopher Hackett to Lead International Sales


SAN MATEO, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 5, 2016) -   Building on its strong momentum in North America, SnapLogic, the industry's first unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS), has advanced its ability to compete on a global scale with the appointment of Christopher Hackett as vice president, International Sales. Hackett will use his proven tenure in building and leading high-growth sales teams, and deep experience in data integration, software-as-a-service and enterprise data management technologies, to drive business growth across Europe. SnapLogic has also recently announced that the company has opened an office in Melbourne, Australia to focus on the Australia and New Zealand market.

"We have been experiencing tremendous success with our sales efforts in the U.S. and the time is right to bring our game-changing iPaaS to the global market," said Jack Kudale, senior vice president of Field Operations at SnapLogic. "We are excited to have Chris join our team. He is a proven sales leader and has just the right international experience to take SnapLogic to the next level."

"Enterprise IT organizations are increasingly hybrid and big data technology adoption is on the rise in Europe," commented Hackett. "SnapLogic delivers the ideal solution with a proven platform that is unmatched in its ability to handle big data and application integration. I am thrilled to join SnapLogic at this juncture in the company's evolution, and to bring this incredible technology to companies and institutions globally."

Before joining SnapLogic, Hackett held sales leadership positions at Informatica, Tibco Software, Sybase and Talend, among other companies. He brings more than 20 years of software sales experience in countries throughout Europe.

SnapLogic's Enterprise iPaaS
The SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform unifies data and application integration with a single platform. Designed for hybrid cloud and on-premises environments, SnapLogic instantly streams data between cloud applications such as Workday, ServiceNow and Salesforce as well as on-premises systems like SAP and Oracle. SnapLogic provides rapid integration development via a visual design interface that can handle the most complex, multi-point integration challenges, while being intuitive enough to provide self-service integration for non-developers. SnapLogic's enterprise iPaaS also provides powerful big data integration capabilities to ingest, prepare and deliver data to and from Hadoop and Spark environments, plus both cloud-based and on premises data sources for modern business analytics.

SnapLogic is sponsoring Strata+Hadoop World in London, June 1-3, 2016.

About SnapLogic
SnapLogic is the industry's first unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS). The SnapLogic Elastic Integration Platform enables enterprises to connect to any source, at any speed, anywhere -- whether on premises, in the cloud or in hybrid environments. The easy-to-use platform empowers self-service integrators, eliminates information silos, and provides a smooth onramp to big data. Founded by data industry veteran Gaurav Dhillon and backed by investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Microsoft Corp., and Silver Lake Waterman, SnapLogic is helping companies across the Global 2000 to connect faster. Learn more at www.SnapLogic.com.

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