Information Technology :; Cloud Storage Company Symform Celebrates a Busy January

Cloud storage provider Symform has had quite a start to 2012 already, from adding two top executives to its burgeoning team to netting $2 million in venture funding from new backer Westfield Capital.


Last week, Symform basked in some belated holiday cheer as it announced two additions to its executive team, which rounds out a proven leadership group that brings global experience across startups and multinational tech companies, according to company officials.

Chris Boscolo will be joining Symform as vice president of engineering, along with Candace Grisdale, who will assume the role of Symform’s new vice president of worldwide sales. Over the past few months, Symform has actively sought out market leaders to join the company to help expand upon its mission to construct a global distributed cloud storage network.

“Symform is rapidly building a massive peer-to-peer global cloud storage and backup network. This requires a senior management team comprised of proven technology executives,” said Matthew J. Schiltz, CEO of Symform. “With the addition of Candace and Chris in these vital positions, I am confident our fast growth will gain even further momentum.”

Boscolo, who brings 15 years in the networking, security and cloud industries to the job, previously served as chief technology officer at Napera Networks and chief software architect at WatchGuard Technologies (News - Alert). While at WatchGuard, Boscolo managed software development of Firebox, a Firewall/VPN appliance.

For Grisdale, prior to teaming with the cloud storage company, she ran channel sales at DocuSign, where she defined the company’s new channel strategy. With more than 20 years in sales leadership, Grisdale also served as vice president of sales at Sesame Communications, and as a general manager at Microsoft (News - Alert).

Symform has more to celebrate than just its new recruits as the cloud storage company has also netted $2 million in venture funding from new backer Westfield Capital, which joined existing investors OVP Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners to bring total funding for this Series A round to $7.5 million. The Seattle-based company also revealed that its user base has grown 800 percent in the last six months.

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