Howard Beader, VP of Product Marketing at Catchpoint, has joined the APMdigest Vendor Forum.
At Catchpoint, Beader is responsible for driving the go-to-market strategy, solution marketing plans and tactics globally across Catchpoint’s solution portfolio. Before joining Catchpoint, he was Sr. Director of Product Marketing for ServiceNow, where he was responsible for bringing Creator Workflows and the Now Platform to market, building the developer program and the CreatorCon event, and the ServiceNow App Store. His other prior experiences included serving as VP of Product Marketing for Everbridge, and VP of Product Marketing for Oracle’s Fusion Middleware portfolio. He has also been Group Product Manager at Microsoft; led marketing at enterprise mobility startup organizations; and served as Director of Product Marketing and Solution Management with SAP AG.
Catchpoint is the Internet Resilience Company. The top online retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs in the world rely on Catchpoint to increase their resiliency by catching any issues in the Internet stack before they impact their business. The Catchpoint platform offers synthetics, RUM, performance optimization, high fidelity data and flexible visualizations with advanced analytics. It leverages thousands of global vantage points (including inside wireless networks, BGP, backbone, last mile, endpoint, enterprise, ISPs and more) to provide unparalleled observability into anything that impacts your customers, workforce, networks, website performance, applications, and APIs.
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