Opsgility Appoints Microsoft Senior Executive as New Sales Leader

FLOWER MOUND, Texas, Sept. 22, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Opsgility, the global leader in Microsoft® (MSFT) Cloud readiness, announced today that Patrick Anderson has joined the company as its new Chief Sales Officer, effective September 19^th.  Anderson comes to Opsgility from Microsoft®, where he most recently served as Sales Director for the Microsoft® South Central District's US Enterprise Solution Sales with the responsibility of overseeing the entire technical sales staff for that district as well as being responsible for all new net sales, in particular all of Microsoft's cloud technologies sales.

"We are thrilled to bring such an experienced sales leader in both Microsoft products and the channel to Opsgility," said Michael Washam, CEO of Opsgility. "We partner hand-in-hand with Microsoft to enable some of their largest customers to deploy to the cloud. Patrick's deep understanding of the Microsoft ecosystem will prove invaluable as we expand our cloud readiness offerings and work even more closely with the Microsoft team."

"Opsgility is a fast growing organization that has an incredible growth trajectory over the three years since start and is already the leader in Microsoft Azure training," said Anderson. "Not only am I impressed about the growth this company has had but excited about the potential it holds and what I can do to help this incredible team.  The offerings from Opsgility are perfectly timed for all maturity levels of companies large and small alike.  We can assist from evaluating the cloud all the way to getting a customer's team comfortable to run in the modern PaaS and SaaS world.  We are already working with some of the largest companies in the world.  Not only can we do this for enterprises, but for the system integrators that support them on a similar breadth, from getting them ready for the modern world of work to helping to align their value proposition in their market.  We also partner with system integrators to be a soft off-ramp from project to customer for a full value proposition.  I am excited about our newest offering that we will be announcing at Ignite.  I could not be happier about joining this extremely talented company!"

Anderson spent over nine years at Microsoft, most recently as Sales Director for the Microsoft South Central District's US Enterprise Solution Sales. 

Prior to Microsoft, Anderson led a number of key initiatives and strategies at other notable companies such as Pier 1 Imports and AST.  He also serves as a Computer Science Executive Board Member for Texas Christian University and a board member for Boys and Girls Club of Greater Fort Worth. 

About Opsgility
Opsgility's goal is to help enable our customers realize the full potential of the Microsoft Cloud by increasing the value of one of their most critical assets, their people. Opsgility is the global leader in Microsoft Azure readiness with over 75 subject matter experts globally available, a huge selection of proprietary courseware for instructor-led and on-demand training. What sets Opsgility apart is their custom curriculum and network of cloud experts that can enable your company for the cloud wherever your company is based.

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