Mark Stirling Joins AppZero’s Board of Directors

Server application virtualization pioneer, AppZero, on Thursday announced that Mark Stirling, Vice President, Investments, GrowthWorks Capital, was elected to AppZero's board of directors.

"We are really looking forward to mining the considerable knowledge and expertise that Mark Stirling has chosen to invest in AppZero," said Greg O'Connor, AppZero's CEO. "Mark is a serial technology entrepreneur with a tremendous track record. We plan to use his input and guidance on our continued ground-breaking path through this transforming era of virtualization and cloud computing."

"Cloud is clearly the future of enterprise computing," said Stirling, "but to realize the full potential of cloud, we must virtualize applications, and AppZero is leading the way. I'm really excited to be a part of the AppZero team."

Mark has more than 25 years of C-level executive experience. He has built, operated and sold software companies in Canada and the United States. He is an internationally recognized speaker on technology, marketing and finance and he has served on advisory boards and Boards of Directors for both public and private companies. Most recently, he was Chair of xkoto Inc., a Boston-based database virtualization company that enjoyed major success in the IBM DB2TM and Microsoft SQL ServerTM markets before being sold to Teradata in May of this year.