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Peak Hosting Taps Rackspace's Vice President of Sales to Join Its Executive TeamPeak Hosting, the leading provider of Operations-as-a-ServiceSM (OaaS) managed hosting, today announced that Greg Rodriguez has joined Peak Hosting as senior vice president of sales and marketing. Rodriguez comes to Peak Hosting with a resume of firsts during a 14-year career at Rackspace (News - Alert), most recently as the company's vice president of sales for the Rackspace Cloud. During his tenure, he played a pivotal role in helping Rackspace grow from a small, privately held company to a $2B publicly traded corporation. At Peak Hosting, Rodriguez will partner with the executive team to continue Peak Hosting's trajectory of exponential growth. "I'm excited to bring someone of Greg's caliber to work with our team on further accelerating sales of our Operations-as-a-Service managed hosting offering," said John Biggi, president, Peak Hosting. "I interviewed more than 15 candidates for this role to find someone who is already living out our company's core values, and it was clearly Greg's combination of outstanding results, humility and confidence that set him apart from a compeitive field of candidates. I look forward to collaborating with Greg and the rest of the executive team on extending Peak Hosting's reach into the hosting industry." At Rackspace, Rodriguez held a number of leadership roles that touched virtually every part of the business, spanning multiple geographies and often paving the way for new offerings. These included building and leading the first cloud hosting team, the first SMB team, the first sales operations team, the first lead generation team and more. By building a scalable, repeatable model, he was able to help Rackspace take pole position as a leader in managed cloud hosting. "This is an exciting time for Peak Hosting as we continue our triple digit growth pace with an extremely experienced leadership team in place to help Peak Hosting scale and set us up for long-term success," said Jeffrey Papen, founder and CEO, Peak Hosting. "John has assembled a great team that fills me with confidence as I step away from day-to-day operations to focus on what I enjoy best - customer engagement. Greg's relationships within the hosting industry and his experience with marketing hosting services makes him an outstanding addition to this team, and I look forward to working with him as we bring Peak Hosting's OaaS model to an even broader customer base." "I was drawn to Peak Hosting after talking with Jeffrey and John about how the company culture aligns with my personal beliefs of growing an organization with engaged employees," said Rodriguez. "I'm ecstatic about the opportunity at Peak Hosting to work with an exceptional peer group, and as a team, grow its managed hosting offering at an even faster pace while having some fun working together along the way."
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