Eric Sheetz Joins Bitcasa as VP of Sales
Veteran of $1B in Sales for Amazon Web Services Added as Growth Accelerates
(firmenpresse) - MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 06/10/15 -- Bitcasa, the cloud software solutions company for the device economy, announced today that Eric Sheetz has joined the company as vice president of sales. At Amazon Web Services (AWS), Sheetz was well-known for his success developing comprehensive, long-term solutions that were tailored to meet the needs of large, global partners.
Sheetz will be responsible for partnership sales and management at Bitcasa. His appointment rounds out the company's executive team as platform momentum grows behind the company's mission to transform the drive.
"Eric has been hugely valuable to us as a strategic advisor as we transformed the company from a consumer cloud storage offering to the premier cloud software solutions provider for device manufacturers, network operators, and software developers," said Brian Taptich, CEO of Bitcasa. "With Eric in place full time, we are looking forward to fully leveraging his deep experience and help our customers move quickly in this growing marketplace."
Sheetz drove strategic and enterprise customer relationships at AWS, including Autodesk, Adobe, and other Silicon Valley bellwethers. He is also an accomplished software developer with deep cloud storage experience. Prior to AWS, Sheetz was an enterprise architect at Oracle responsible for advising customers through complex transitions and creating best practices in software architecture and operations.
"I have long believed that the companies that have created the Device Economy require seamless, system-level cloud storage to create differentiation for the consumer," said Sheetz. "Bitcasa's platform achieves this. I am excited to be part of the opportunity."
Bitcasa has a growing roster of global partners that utilize its white-label Turn-key Drive applications including Hutchison Telecommunications, which services more than 82 million customers throughout Asia and Europe. More than 23,000 developers also use Bitcasa's CloudFS APIs, which provide a simple way to integrate cloud storage into applications and services.
About Bitcasa
Bitcasa is transforming the drive. By providing secure APIs and white label storage applications for OEMs, network operators, and software developers, Bitcasa helps the device economy create deeper relationships with their customers in over 140 countries worldwide. The Bitcasa Platform enables secure file storage, access, and sharing across all major platforms including Android, iOS, Windows, Mac OSX, Linux, and the Web. Bitcasa is backed by top-tier investors, including Horizons Ventures, Pelion Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Samsung Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. For more details visit or follow us on LinkedIn or on Twitter (at)bitcasa.
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