AST Announces Change in Sales Leadership

PRLog (Press Release) - Nov. 21, 2012 - AST Corporation announced that Mr. Martin H. Small will be succeeded in the post as Vice President, Business Development by Ms. Jennifer Ryerson.  During Mr. Small’s 12 years of leadership AST has attained a well-respected and dominant market position among Oracle System Integrators. During his stewardship, AST attained the status of Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America and received multiple Oracle Titan Awards.  Mr. Small will assume the role of Vice President of Strategic Accounts at AST, continue to oversee AST’s key accounts, and help with a gradual transition of sales responsibilities as he prepares to retire on June 30, 2013 after a long and illustrious career.

“Ms. Ryerson joins Team AST at an exciting time, as we repeat a strong 40 percent growth year over year for the third successive year,” said Pravin Kumar, CEO of AST Corporation. “Her 15 years of experience at Oracle Corporation selling for federal civilian and U.S. and Canadian state and local government markets will be a tremendous asset to AST, not to mention the specialized Hyperion/EPM knowledge that she brings to our customers.”  

AST also announced that Stacie Henn, Regional Sales Director, will be taking over the sales responsibilities for the Northeast and DC markets, including the Commonwealth of Virginia and the State of Maryland.  Prior to assuming her new responsibilities, Ms. Henn had been managing AST’s business development efforts for the U.S. western states and Pacific Coast.   Ms. Henn’s experience and understanding of Oracle marketplace will help AST consolidate and increase its presence in this critical geographical area as well as in the federal vertical.