Oct 26, 2016
New finance, sales, and marketing leadership to focus on driving growth for company’s network automation platform across enterprises globally
Burlington, MA, October 26, 2016 — NetBrain Technologies Inc., a market leader disrupting the network automation space, today announced the addition of three members to its executive management team. Jeffery Basile, Chief Financial Officer; Barbara Scarcella, SVP of Global Sales; and Grant Ho, SVP of Global Marketing have all joined the company at its Burlington, Massachusetts headquarters. These experienced technology executives will focus on driving rapid growth for NetBrain’s network automation platform into new and existing enterprises and managed services providers worldwide.
“We are very excited to have Jeff, Barbara, and Grant join NetBrain’s leadership team, especially as we position the company for strong growth and innovation heading into 2017,” said Lingping Gao, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NetBrain. “NetBrain’s success is due to our people, and over the years, we have been fortunate to attract top talent because of our unique culture and exciting mission to transform the network management industry.”
Gao continued, “Today’s enterprise networks have grown much more complex given the rise of network function virtualization, software-defined networking, and heightened security demands. NetBrain can drastically simplify these challenges by enabling network operations to become programmable, thereby reducing cost, increasing efficiency, and meeting security requirements. I look forward to the leadership that Jeff, Barbara, and Grant will bring in meeting our customers’ needs and scaling our business in the US and abroad.”
Jeffery Basile joins NetBrain as its Chief Financial Officer and is responsible for leading the full scope of the company’s financial planning and analysis, budgeting, accounting, reporting, and compliance functions. Previously, Jeff served as Chief Financial Officer for PeopleFluent, a Boston-based software company in the SaaS-based human capital management space. Jeff began his career as senior auditor at Coopers & Lybrand and also held the positions of Corporate Controller and Vice President of Finance at high-tech companies including Starent Networks, Viisage Technology, and Aspect Software.
In her role as SVP of Global Sales, Barbara Scarcella is responsible for leading the company’s global sales, sales engineering, sales operations, and training teams. Under her direction, NetBrain will focus on driving revenue by selling its platform to senior-level IT decision makers while building influence across the network and infrastructure teams. Barbara previously served as NetBrain’s Senior Advisor to the CEO where she was instrumental to the success of the company’s early customers and helped to shape NetBrain’s strategic vision. Before NetBrain, she held executive positions at Thomson Corporation including SVP and Strategic Sourcing Officer as well as Chief Technology Officer and President of Operations and Technology at Thomson Financial.
As NetBrain’s SVP of Global Marketing, Grant Ho is responsible for leading the company’s marketing strategy and execution. This includes corporate communications and brand, media and analyst relations, product marketing, events, and digital marketing. Before NetBrain, Grant was Vice President of Marketing at NantHealth, a healthcare technology company, and also held senior marketing positions at NaviNet, CareCloud, and GE Healthcare. Grant began his career as a strategy consultant to wireless and enterprise software companies at Oliver Wyman.
About NetBrain Technologies
Founded in 2004, NetBrain is the market leader disrupting the network automation space. Its ground-breaking automation platform leverages the power of dynamic maps to provide CIOs and network teams with end-to-end network visibility while enabling adaptive automation across the organization’s physical, virtual and software-defined networks. Today, over 1,500 of the world’s largest enterprises and managed services providers leverage NetBrain’s platform to automate network documentation, troubleshooting, and change management. NetBrain is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, with offices in Melville, New York; Sacramento, California; Munich, Germany; and Beijing, China. For more information, visit www.netbraintech.com.