HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif.,
July 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ --
FireScope Inc., the leader in aligning customers' technology
performance to their business and customer experiences, today
announced that Jeff Smith, CEO of
Suncorp Business Services(SUN:AU) has joined its Board of
Directors.
Jeff Smith is recognized as a
thought leader and innovator and has been awarded CIO of the year
twice since 2003, once by the press and once by his peers.
Over the 27 years that Mr. Smith has been in the IT industry,
he has held numerous Chief Information Officer (CIO) or equivalent
roles, including CIO for Telstra Corporation. He has also held
leadership positions in a number of world-class companies including
Honeywell, Toyota and Charles
Schwab.
"I am pleased to welcome Jeff
Smith, CEO of Suncorp's Business Services to FireScope's
Board of Directors. Jeff's joining our Board is a further
validation of the FireScope story and that the problems FireScope
is solving for its customers is important work," says Steven Cotton, CEO of FireScope. "FireScope's
Board is independent and is responsible for advocating our
customers, partners and shareholder interests. Jeff will be an
excellent voice for our key constituents as well as
helping me lead our management team in achieving our vision of
being 'The leader in aligning customers' technology performance to
their business.'"
Jeff Smith said he was
enthusiastically looking forward to joining the FireScope
Board.
"My goal is, wherever possible, to work with and emulate
companies that lead the way in their field of expertise. I
believe FireScope is a world leader and am excited to have joined
the Board as the company enters the next phase of its corporate
development," he said.
Suncorp, one of Australia's
largest diversified financial services groups, has achieved a
massive technology transformation that has resulted in one of the
largest private cloud deployments in Asia. This transformation, overseen by
Jeff Smith's Business Services
division, has enabled Suncorp to reduce its net IT costs by 20%
over the last three years, at a time when computing requirements
were increasing by 30% annually.
As Suncorp is a current FireScope customer, Jeff Smith will not participate in any
discussions or decisions regarding the business relationship
between the two companies.
About FireScope
FireScope is the leader in aligning customers' technology
performance to their business and customer experiences through
highly innovative, on-demand solutions. FireScope's suite of
products includes three primary enterprise offerings: FireScope
Unify™ Business Service Management (BSM) - your dashboard for
enterprise IT strategy; FireScope Orchestrate™ Configuration
Management Database (CMDB) - your playbook for IT Operations; and
FireScope Comply™ - your compass for managing IT compliance.
FireScope Inc., headquartered in Huntington Beach, California has offices in
Sydney, New York, Dallas and London. To learn more about FireScope and its
advanced ITSM solutions, visit http://www.firescope.com or call
877-780-3473.
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