Matt Stodolnic, Former VMware, Salesforce Executive, Joins Pantheon as Vice President of Marketing and Alliances

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Pantheon, the world's largest Website Management Platform, announced the appointment of Matt Stodolnic as Vice President of Marketing and Alliances.  Stodolnic is a veteran technology executive with over 15 years' experience running SaaS and Open Source Software organizations. Most recently he headed up Pivotal's (an EMC + VMware spinoff) open source initiatives including Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis and Hadoop.   Prior to Pivotal, Stodolnic spent 7 years at salesforce.com where he was the VP of Web, Online Marketing and Creative Services.

"We are extremely pleased to welcome Matt to Pantheon," said Zack Rosen, co-founder and CEO of Pantheon. "His experience in managing developer relations and open source strategies for some of the most important technologies on the web is unmatched. Combined with his role in creating some of the most innovative Web experiences, Matt will play a key role as we take our platform to the enterprise and digital agencies."

Pantheon is the leading website management platform for professional developers, designers, and marketers.  Pantheon solves the problems inherent in traditional hosting, including website outages, inability to handle large traffic spikes, security, team management, version control, and deployment. Pantheon delivers website performance and infrastructure as a service and powers more than 80,000 websites delivering many billions of page views every month.

"Pantheon's container-based website management platform is unparalleled in flexibility and scale for digital agencies and businesses that want to make their websites awesome," said Stodolnic.  "This modern approach to building, launching and managing websites lets our users create great digital experiences while Pantheon handles infrastructure, security and scaling concerns. We continue to see Drupal and WordPress users driving new innovations in social, mobile and multi-channel web experiences that only open source community driven software can do."

Pantheon is used by some of the most sophisticated organizations on the Web including Intel, Cisco, MobileIron, A&E Networks, The New Republic, Arizona State University and the United Nations.

Prior to joining Pantheon, Stodolnic headed up open source at Pivotal with responsibilities for developer relations and community for Spring, RabbitMQ, Redis, Hadoop and go-to-market strategy across Pivotal's cloud middleware business. At Salesforce, Stodolnic was the Vice President of Web, Online Marketing and Creative Services.

About Pantheon

Pantheon is the world's largest professional website management platform for Drupal and WordPress websites. Our multi-tenant, container-based cloud platform enables website teams to build, launch, and run all of their websites from a single dashboard with ease. Developers, Marketers and IT can instantly scale in response to unplanned traffic spikes, deploy new website features, and collaborate with team-mates without ever touching a VM or server cluster. Large enterprises use Pantheon, including Intel, Cisco, Arizona State University, and the United Nations.

Headquartered in San Francisco, Pantheon is privately held and backed by Foundry Group, Baseline Ventures, First Round Capital, Floodgate Fund, Scale Venture Partners and Openview Partners. Pantheon is a Heavybit company.

To learn more about Pantheon: www.getpantheon.com

CONTACT: Jill Ratkevic, 1-408-209-5181, [email protected]

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