Stromasys announces new Chief Executive Officer, Jean-Paul Bergmans.
14.06.2011 - Geneva, Switzerland – Stromasys SA announced Jean-Paul Bergmans has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of Stromasys and has been elected as a member of the Stromasys Board of Directors.
Jean-Paul Bergmans joined Stromasys in January 2011 as Chief Operations Officer. In this role, Jean-Paul has improved Stromasys' sales channels and product positioning within the market. Stromasys sees a growing number of strategic relationships with companies like HP and Dell, driven by the compatibility of the CHARON product family with the trend towards datacenter virtualization.
“As our cross-platform virtualization technology becomes mainstream, Jean-Paul's proven track record of managing a variety of international IT companies working with large international clients will be an extraordinary asset to Stromasys” said the Stromasys founder, Chairman and CTO Robert Boers. “From a personal perspective, the transfer of my CEO role to Jean-Paul gives me the opportunity to focus on the next generation of our products and on an increasing number of strategic initiatives”.
Before joining Stromasys, Jean-Paul worked for many years in Sun Microsystems as International Marketing Development Manager, Product Sales Director EMEA, Regional Director CIS and Vice-President Southern & Eastern Europe, Middle East & Africa. After leaving Sun, Jean-Paul started and managed an IT company in Russia. Before joining Sun, Jean-Paul held positions of Marketing and Sales Manager Belgium, European Services Sales Manager and System Integration Manager Russia in Digital Equipment Corporation.
Stromasys SA
Stromasys S.A. is a privately held, global company headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland which provides commercial cross-virtualization technologies to thousands of users in more than 50 countries. Stromasys has now sold more than 4000 virtual servers in over 50 countries. Established in 1998, Stromasys was formed from a management buyout of Digital Equipment Corporation’s European Migration and Porting centre following the HP/Compaq merger. The vast experience gained from years of large-scale migration and porting projects, system-level VMS engineering projects, and development of binary translators eventually led to the creation of the CHARON-VAX and CHARON-AXP software products. With full service sales and support locations in the United States, Germany, and Hong Kong, engineering facilities in Russia and China, and representation around the globe, Stromasys continues to expand, bringing additional cross-virtualization technologies for legacy platforms to the market. For more information visit: www.stromasys.com.
