| ServerVault
Appoints Industry Veteran John Kraft as President, CEO
[9th July 2003]
DULLES, Va., Jul 9, 2003 /PRNewswire
via COMTEX/ -- ServerVault, the top-ranked secure, managed
hosting provider as reported by Meta Group and Tier
One Research, announced today the recent appointment
of president and chief executive officer John F. Kraft.
Mr. Kraft brings a wealth of leadership
experience to ServerVault, with more than 20 years of
general management, operations, sales and marketing
experience. He offers extensive experience providing
world-class technology and business solutions to the
world's largest and most demanding organizations.
From 2001 to 2002, Mr. Kraft served
as president and chief operating officer of PSINet US.
During his tenure as president, Mr. Kraft was responsible
for the Internet connectivity services, Web hosting
and professional services divisions. He joined PSINet
in 1996 as founder and general manager of the carrier
and ISP services division.
In less than four years, he grew the
division from zero to $100 million in annual revenues.
Mr. Kraft came to PSINet from MCI Communications, where
he served in several executive positions from 1986 to
1996. Prior to that, he worked for IBM's satellite business
systems division in key sales and management roles.
"As the demand for secure hosting
solutions accelerates and the Web hosting industry consolidates,
I am extremely energized to join a company that is already
recognized as a leader in secure, managed Web hosting,"
Mr. Kraft said. "With solid financial backing,
together with product leadership, valued customers and
dedicated employees, ServerVault has the core ingredients
for great success. My main challenge will be to build
a robust marketing and sales program, and to reinforce
the superior and efficient operations and customer service
teams that deliver world-class solutions based on our
industry leading secure hosting technology and services."
"We are extremely pleased with
the appointment of John Kraft as the new CEO of ServerVault,"
ServerVault board member Steve Baker said. "John
brings a broad base of management and industry experience
to the position and is ideally suited to successfully
lead ServerVault through its many exciting opportunities.
In addition, he has had a well-demonstrated record of
profitably developing and selling a broad range of communications
and technology products and services."
For four years, ServerVault has been
providing secure Web hosting services to government,
defense, financial, information technology and healthcare
organizations. It is one of the few commercial companies
certified as a highly secure, SCIF (Sensitive Compartmentalized
Information Facility)-compliant data center. Coupled
with skilled and certified security professionals, ServerVault's
reputation for hosting secure applications and Web sites
remains unequalled in the hosting industry.
About ServerVault Corp.
Dulles-based ServerVault Corp. specializes
in hosting secure intranets, extranets, Web applications
and Web sites for clients in the financial, healthcare,
information technology and government sectors. The company
has a growing user base of Fortune 1000 and global companies,
including Capital One, Citigroup, Hartford Life Insurance,
Raytheon and the National Football League, as well as
multiple agencies of the United States Federal Government
and the Irish Government.
ServerVault delivers the industry's
most robust service-level agreements, with 99.999 percent
reliability. The company's platform is substantially
different from other hosting providers, offering 50
discrete points of protection and extensive proprietary
technology. ServerVault operates one of the few commercially
available data centers built to Department of Defense
standards. ServerVault is wholly owned by affiliates
of Cincinnati-based Fort Washington Investment Advisors,
Inc., a member of Western & Southern Financial Group.
For more information, visit www.servervault.com or call
1.877.78.VAULT.
SOURCE ServerVault Corp.
Michelle Reilly of ServerVault Corp.,
+1-703-652-5900, or
michelle@servervault.com |
