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Gravitant Hires Jay Link as Senior Vice President of Sales and Brent Brightwell as Vice President of Product ManagementAUSTIN, Texas --(Business Wire)-- Gravitant®, the leading software company in the enterprise cloud brokerage and management market, today announced it has enhanced its executive team by hiring two industry veterans: Jay Link as Senior Vice President of Sales and Brent Brightwell as Vice President of Product Management. 
Jay Link has joined Gravitant as Senior Vice President (Photo: Business Wire) "We are pleased to have executives of Jay and Brent's caliber join Gravitant," said Mohammed Farooq, Chairman and CEO of Gravitant. "Their track record will serve Gravitant and its customers well as we continue to delivr innovative solutions for cloud computing." Jay Link brings more than 17 years of sales leadership experience to Gravitant and will be responsible for all aspects of sales of Gravitant's cloudMatrix solution to Enterprise customers and strategic Systems Integrators who are looking to realize and maximize the value of delivering multi-cloud solutions to their customers. Prior to joining Gravitant, Jay was Vice President of Global Sales for Enterprise ITSM at BMC Corporation where he developed and executed strategic sales plans, go-to-market strategies and sales structure / staffing models that resulted in more than 240% growth in new SaaS (News - Alert) customers and more than 450% monthly reoccurring revenue growth during his tenure. Earlier he was Vice President of North America Sales at Kiva systems where he drove company sales growth until its successful acquisition by Amazon. Prior to Kiva, Jay held leadership roles at Invensys and Hewlett Packard. Brent Brightwell brings more than 15 years of product management and product marketing experience in companies ranging from startups to large organizations. Prior to joining Gravitant, Brent was Cloud Product Marketing Executive at Hewlett Packard. Earlier at HP, Brent held various executive roles including sales, R&D and marketing. Brent was instrumental in developing HP's key strategies in cloud, security, big data and mobility. Additionally, Brent has held executive and board advisor roles in a number of startup companies. About Gravitant Gravitant provides cloud brokerage and management software, delivered in a SaaS model. Gravitant's cloudMatrix makes it easy to plan, buy, manage and broker cloud services and enables users to move from a slow service-ticket model to an agile design-to-order model. The results: improved time-to-value from months to minutes and IT costs slashed by up to 50%. Gravitant's software is trusted by some of the largest enterprises in the country for their IT-as-a-Service platform.
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