Mr. Ian Clarke is to step down from the CEO position at New Zealand cloud company Fronde.
Fronde, which has headquarters in Wellington, New Zealand, is one of the Pacific region's leading providers and has a presence in Australia's Gold Coast and in Auckland New Zealand. The company offers a range of solutions including datacenter and workforce liberation offerings alongside data, customer and operations liberation offerings. Its services to customers include systems management and systems integration. Mr. Clarke has held the company's CEO position since 2008.
Mr. Clarke has had a number of positions at Fronde, including the company's former Chief Financial Officer, General Manager Operations and General Manager in Wellington. Since heading the company it has enjoyed substantial growth and expanded into Australia's cloud market. The company's revenue increased from AUS$25 million (US$18.21 million) revenue in 2010 to AUS$60 (US$43.70 million) in 2013 and Mr. Clarke was instrumental in leading the company into the provision of cloud offerings.
“Under Clarke’s leadership, Fronde quickly become the market leader in cloud integration, taking enterprise and government to the cloud," the company's Chairman Jon Mayson told
Scoop.co.nz. "He also cemented Fronde’s position through key partnerships with Google, Salesforce, NetSuite, AWS and Citrix. Ian oversaw the acquisition of OnlineOne, the leading NetSuite reseller and implementer in Australia. The acquisition was pivotal to Fronde’s geographic and partner strategy. Our ability to retain the management is one of the key reasons our Australian business is now performing so strongly.”
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