BreakingPoint Continues To Attract Senior Leadership Talent
BreakingPoint Continues To Attract Senior Leadership Talent With Addition Of Sales and Marketing Executives Stephane Johnson and Pam O’Neal: New Executives to Drive Awareness Around Next Generation Network and Application Test Systems
Austin, TX, April 30, 2008 —BreakingPoint Systems, Inc., the content-aware network and application testing company, today announced Stephane Johnson has joined as vice president of International sales and Pam O’Neal has joined as vice president of marketing. Johnson joins BreakingPoint with a strong track record of sales and business development successes and years of experience in creating, implementing and supporting global direct sales and channel sales organizations. BreakingPoint is looking to Johnson to help with international expansion due to tremendous worldwide demand for content-aware network and application testing. Leveraging more than 18 years of experience in marketing and experience building online communities, O’Neal will oversee BreakingPoint’s global marketing programs including brand strategy, integrated marketing programs, and regional field marketing.
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Des Wilson, Chief Executive Officer “BreakingPoint has already seen tremendous adoption of our unique content-aware testing platform among the top tier network equipment manufacturers and services providers because of the critical need for content-aware testing. Stephane and Pam bring the Sales and Marketing leadership we need to drive global adoption for our breakout testing platform and continue to shake up the legacy testing industry with award-winning innovation and fresh ideas.”
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Stephane Johnson, Vice President of International Sales Prior to BreakingPoint, Johnson was Vice President of Business Development at Symmetricom's QoE Assurance Division. Prior to Symmetricom, he served in senior executive sales, business development, and international sales management positions at Spirent Communications/Netcom Systems, where he ended up managing a worldwide sales team of 250 employees with sales of $350 million. Johnson significantly grew and improved the company's sales, support, and partner programs working with companies such as Cisco, Alcatel, ATT, Verizon, France Telecom, Deutsche Telecom, BT, NTT, and China Netcom. Johnson's experience also includes sales positions at Phillips Communication, Experdata, and TITN. He received a Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Pam O’Neal, Vice President of Marketing Prior to BreakingPoint, O’Neal served as senior director of marketing communications for NetQoS Inc., the fastest growing network performance management company in the industry. An award- winning marketer, O’Neal has built and led marketing organizations for successful, high growth startups and public companies including NetQoS, Pervasive, Ventix, Ineto, and Concero. O’Neal is a published writer, social media expert, blogger and frequent speaker at industry conferences including the 2007 Marketing Sherpa B2B Summit, Women Profiles in Power conference, the Marketing Profs B2B Forum, and others.
About BreakingPoint
BreakingPoint is the only company exclusively focused on application, performance, and security testing for content-aware devices. BreakingPoint was founded in 2005 by engineers with deep experience developing high speed networking devices at companies such as NetWorth, NetSpeed, Cisco, TippingPoint, and 3Com. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices and customers in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, and China. For more information, visit www.breakingpointsystems.com.