Neil Holloway
Skytap, Inc., a Seattle-based global public cloud provider, recently announced it appointed Neil Holloway to its executive team as senior vice president of business development. Tapped to continue expanding Skytap’s partner ecosystem, Holloway joins the company during a period of sustained growth and momentum. Skytap’s business continues to accelerate with five of the company’s top ten customers closing this year and existing customer upgrades growing nearly 300 percent year over year (YoY) in Q3.
Skytap’s strong sales growth continued in Q3 2017, while Skytap Cloud usage also surged 188 percent YoY in Q3. Skytap was recently named to Deloitte’s 2017 Technology Fast 500, with overall revenue growing more than 200 percent from 2013 to 2016.
The company is bringing in Holloway to continue accelerating revenue growth through strategic partnerships. Holloway brings over 30 years of leadership in building, growing, and enabling technology partner ecosystems to Skytap. Holloway has held a range of executive leadership positions, including Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Business Solutions, as well as President of Microsoft EMEA and Managing Director of Microsoft UK. Holloway was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bath for his contributions to international business. He has a Master’s in Philosophy for Organization Research from the University of Cambridge, and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Bath.
“The cloud is beginning a new wave of adoption focused on the enterprise’s most valuable applications, many of which can’t be easily migrated to hyperscale clouds. Skytap has a differentiated offering that complements a range of other cloud technologies and system integration practices,” said Holloway. “I’m excited to join a company with a clear product-market fit and I see major opportunities for technology and channel partnerships ahead.”
About Skytap
Skytap is a global cloud provider that accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services. Skytap Cloud makes it easy to build, run, and evolve these hybrid applications by rapidly migrating traditional workloads to the cloud, enabling modern development practices, and integrating new cloud architectures. We power multi- and hybrid-cloud strategies through secure connections to other clouds and on-premises datacenters. Our environments technology accelerates application development, simplifies management, and reduces IT costs, enabling hundreds of customers worldwide to modernize at the pace of their business. www.skytap.com