Nigel Doust Appointed New CEO of Blackbay
Nigel Doust Appointed New CEO of Blackbay
24
August, 2010 - As part of its growth strategy
Blackbay
solutions, has today
announced the appointment of enterprise
mobility
solutions expert Nigel Doust as its new CEO.
"Despite the prevailing economic climate, Blackbay is
experiencing an
increase in year-on-year revenue growth.
Our strong financial position
and excellent pipeline of
potential customers, means that now is
absolutely the
right time to drive the company to the next level of
its
development, establishing Blackbay as one of the
leading enterprise
mobility solution experts within the
field service, postal and transport
and logistics sectors
," said Avi Azulai, Blackbay's Chairman. "Nigel
is the
right person to propel Blackbay forward into a market
leading
position."
Doust will take up his position as
Blackbay's CEO in early September and
joins the company
fresh from his position as Vice President at Sybase
where
he managed and led the Sybase enterprise mobility business
in
Europe. Previously, Doust was VP Europe for mobile
specialist Pointsec
where he drove significant market
growth. Doust also served as Vice
President World Wide
Mobility for Extended Systems, another
mobility
specialist software company. Again he grew the
global business and was
instrumental in the sale of
Extended Systems to Sybase.
"Nigel brings with him
extensive experience of enterprise mobility
solutions
and strong relationships within the market," continued
Azulai.
"Importantly for us, Nigel has already displayed
outstanding leadership
qualities, combined with the
ability to continually strengthen and
enhance
relationships with existing customers and drive revenue from
new
customers, and new markets."
"My position at
Blackbay provides me with a fantastic opportunity to
take
a fast growing company to the top of its market," explained
Doust.
"Initially, my focus will be on continuing
Blackbay's commitment to
deliver market leading levels of
service and support to our existing
customers, driving
sales, and expanding the company's operations within
the
North American enterprise mobility solutions space."
Doust also plans to work closely with Blackbay's R&D team
to drive
investment to further increase the features and
functionality of the
company's field service, postal and
transport and logistics solutions.
"It is increasingly
important that Blackbay is able to deliver
innovative,
highly scalable and integrated solutions which support
the
needs of our current customers and those of new
customers, across
multiple platforms," added
Doust.
"With Nigel at the helm, Blackbay will be in the
best possible position
to grow our enterprise mobility
solutions market share and to exceed our
revenue
expectations," concluded Azulai.
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