Boston's business community has been busy this past week. Find out who's going where below.
Former Zipcar CEO Scott Griffith made the move to VC firm General Catalyst this week. Griffith will slide into the role of XIR, a program unique to the firm that pairs up top executives with founders at the firm’s portfolio companies to provide perspective as a mentor and add value around executive level hiring, mergers and acquisition strategy and more. Griffith, who is already a board member for CoachUp, will make two to three investments a year, likely in companies that have a marketplace model, are in the connected car space, or offer software to empower small business.
“I know firsthand that it can be very lonely at the top when you’re running one of these high growth companies,” Griffith told BostInno. “Many founders don’t have that collaborative relationship with anyone of their board.” Read the full story here.
Cambridge startup NuoDB added two key leaders, Robert Walmsley and Steve Cellini, to its team this week. Walmsley joins the company, which provides a cloud database management system that helps businesses improve application performance, as its executive VP of sales and services. Prior to NuoDB, the new sales executive spent time at Veracode, IONA Technologies as well as Object Design. Cellini moves into the role of VP of product management from spending years at both Microsoft and EMC. In addition to the hires, NuoDB also announced that it has doubled its office space in Cambridge.
Westborough, Mass.-based data virtualization company SimpliVity appointed Marianne Budnik as its new chief marketing officer this week. Budnik previously served as the CMO at Acme Packet Inc. through the company’s acquisition by Oracle in 2013 for a whopping $2.1 billion. Back in January, the firm brought on Mitch Breen as SVP of worldwide sales. Together, Budnik and Breen are enabling the company to rapidly scale its go-to-market strategy and boost new business.
Nexage, which runs programmatic mobile campaigns for advertisers, announced this week that Ray Colwell has joined its leadership squad. Colwell will move into the role of SVP of global business development. Prior to joining the Downtown Boston-based company, Colwell worked as the chief revenue officer at mobile ad targeting startup Adelphic Mobile.
Newton, Mass.-based Attivo, which claims to make information and data valuable and actionable to big business, welcomed Stephen Baker as its new COO this week. Prior to joining Attivio, Baker was President and Chief Revenue Officer of RAMP, a SaaS-powered online video platform in Boston, where he led the sales, account management and client operations teams and played an integral part of raising the company's series B and C rounds of funding.
