Zenoss named Marcus MacNeill as Vice President of Product Management, Derek Brown as Vice President of EMEA and Ron Brien as Vice President of Global Marketing.
Marcus MacNeill, VP of Product Management, brings more than 25 years of experience developing, marketing and supporting enterprise software, and in his new role he will be responsible for defining and driving Zenoss products and services to market. Prior to Zenoss, MacNeill was Director of Product Management at Dell where he managed the ProSupport portfolio of enterprise hardware and software support offerings globally. MacNeill has held senior product management and marketing positions at Hart InterCivic, Surgient, Troux Technologies, Vignette, Vantive and Oracle.
Derek Brown, VP of EMEA, is an accomplished senior executive with more than 25 years of experience in software sales and senior management roles in the Supply Chain, Logistics, Field Service and Customer Experience markets. As VP of EMEA, Brown’s main responsibility is the development and growth of Zenoss in this European market, which entails working with existing customers and key partners, including Cisco, Accenture and Wipro, to extend the Zenoss solution.
Ron Brien, VP of Global Marketing, comes to Zenoss with more than 15 years of high-tech corporate strategy, enterprise sales and global marketing experience leading high-growth SaaS companies to breakthrough awareness and demand, market differentiation, and industry leadership. Previously, Brien honed his skills at Fortune 500 enterprises including Dell and Hewlett Packard as well as hyper growth companies Omniture (IPO, acquired by Adobe for $1.8B) and RightNow Technologies (IPO, acquired by Oracle for $1.5B). Brien has led international teams and won multiple independent American Business Awards (“Stevie Awards”) and Interactive Media Awards.
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