Via Response Expands Management Team to Support Planned Growth

Company hires three new vice presidents to help lead the organization toward its strategic goals.
 
ORLANDO, Fla. - Aug. 28, 2013 - PRLog -- Orlando, Fla. – (August 28, 2013) - Via Response (http://www.viaresponse.com), an emerging leader of cloud-based mobile student engagement platforms for improved learning, announced the addition of three members to its senior management team.  The company named Judy Einstein as Vice President of Business Development, John Gaset as Vice President of Sales Operations and Luke Nazzaro as Vice President of Product Management.

Judy Einstein will be leading the sales efforts for Via. She comes to Via with 21 years of sales and marketing experience in high tech, including 19 years of executive business development experience in higher education. Most recently, Judy was the Vice President of Business Development and Legal Affairs at McGraw-Hill’s Tegrity group. Judy was instrumental in growing Tegrity from a $300,000 startup to revenues of over $10M, and actively participating in Tegrity’s acquisition by McGraw-Hill in2012.

John Gaset, a technology veteran with over 30 years’ experience, will be responsible for all aspects of the company’s operational functions, with a strong emphasis on optimizing the effectiveness and productivity of the sales and customer support teams. Prior to joining Via, he held several senior management positions over his nine year tenure with Channel Intelligence, including Vice President of Performance Management, General Manager of SellCast, Vice President of Client Services and Director of Sales, Sales Operations.  Gaset also held management positions with Pivotal Corporation and Seagate Software.

Responsible with defining and leading the company’s product strategy, Luke Nazzaro brings a wealth of experience managing technology road maps to help organizations meet strategic goals. For the past seven years he has held senior product manager and program manager roles for both myList and Channel Intelligence. Prior to Channel Intelligence he worked for ScheduALL as Manager of Quality Assurance and Learn.com as a Software Systems Analyst.

“We are thrilled to have Judy, John and Luke join Via as integral members of our management team,” says Kirstie Chadwick, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. “With these critical executive roles filled, we are poised to meet our strategic goals over the next 12 to 18 months.”

In addition to filling out its executive team, Via Response has also expanded its field sales organization.  The growth in staff is in large part due to closure of a Series A round of funding the company received in the second quarter of 2013.

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Via Response is a cloud-based mobile student engagement platform designed to help improve learning for today’s digital generation anywhere, anytime and on any device. Free for instructors, it provides them with advanced instructional design capabilities making it easy to engage and students with a robust suite of assessment and interactive tools. For students, Via Response is cost-effective and reusable technology that works across all classes. www.viaresponse.com
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