NaviSite, Inc. (NASDAQ: NAVI),
a leading provider of Enterprise Hosting and Application Services,
announced today the appointment of R. Brooks Borcherding as the Senior
Vice President of Sales and Chief Revenue Officer. Borcherding joins
NaviSite from Cisco Systems, where he was responsible for strategy,
planning, business development and sales operations for the Enterprise
East division with a focus on driving revenue from large enterprise
customers. Previously, he held leadership positions in sales, sales
management, general management, product management and information
technology at Avaya, Lucent and AT&T. He began his career as a senior
consultant at Andersen Consulting.
"Brooks brings to NaviSite extremely relevant experience in driving top
line growth and sales productivity," said Arthur Becker, CEO, NaviSite,
Inc. "His extensive expertise and proven track record in developing
strategies and managing teams selling compelling IT solutions to large
enterprises will help us significantly to increase market penetration
and growth."
Borcherding will also work closely with other NaviSite executives to
design and execute a multi-channel sales approach that, in addition to
selling to new enterprises, is designed to grow install base sales and
leverage inside sales, on-line sales, partnerships and off-shore sales
capabilities to drive aggressive revenue growth.
"NaviSite is an industry leader offering comprehensive and compelling IT
solutions for enterprises," said Borcherding. "I am very excited to be
part of NaviSite at a time when the market opportunity continues to grow
and the company is uniquely positioned to accelerate sales growth. I
look forward to driving growth and helping customers take advantage of
the world class solutions and capabilities that NaviSite offers."
Borcherding earned his Bachelors of Science degree in Industrial
Engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
About NaviSite:
NaviSite is a leading provider of enterprise hosting and application
solutions. It provides customized and scalable solutions leveraging its
industry leading hosting and enterprise cloud infrastructure, and custom
and packaged application life cycle management expertise. Over 1,500
customers depend on NaviSite for managed application services,
application development, implementation and management on its web
infrastructure platforms in 16 state-of-the-art data centers supported
by approximately 650 professionals. For more information visit www.navisite.com.
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