MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., March 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Teneros today announced that Patrick Kearns has been promoted to vice president of business development. Kearns, who was previously director of business development, will lead deal execution, drive management team decisions, and identify and manage the performance of global OEM, reseller and business partnership opportunities.
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Kearns has more than 25 years of experiences in sales, channel management and business development. Before joining Teneros in June 2007 he spent six years as director of business development at Lucent Technologies. He also led international business development and sales teams for Sync Research, Motorola and Fujitsu, resulting in numerous successful partnerships and major sales contracts with leading enterprises around the world.
"Patrick has an impressive track record of building successful, long-term relationships with major players across multiple sectors of technology," said Steve Lewis, Teneros CEO. "He's had a significant impact on our business development efforts from the moment he came on board, and I'm extremely confident that having him lead the team will greatly enhance the scope of our alliances and partnerships both nationally and globally."
Kearns received a bachelor's degree in American studies from UC Davis and speaks French, Spanish and Italian.
Teneros Application Continuity Appliances(TM) assure affordable, 24X7, high availability and disaster recovery for Microsoft Exchange. The company's Plug-&-Go(TM), Instant-On(TM) failover appliances install in minutes and are remotely monitored, updated, and maintained by the Teneros Network Operations Center (NOC). Teneros received the 2007 Microsoft(R) Partner of the Year Award in OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing, at the Microsoft(R) Worldwide Partner Conference in July and was selected as CRN's 2007 Emerging Tech Dynamo.
About Teneros
Founded in 2003, Teneros has pioneered a new product category that assures continuity of operations for the mission-critical Microsoft applications fueling corporations worldwide -- the Teneros Application Continuity Appliance(TM). Funded by Goldman Sachs, New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Sevin Rosen Funds, STAR Ventures, and Advanced Equities Financial Corp., the company produces plug-&-go(TM) business continuity appliances that assure 99.99%-99.999% uptime of Microsoft infrastructure applications.
Teneros is an Advanced Infrastructure Solutions Microsoft Gold Partner and is the recipient of the 2007 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award, OEM Hardware Solutions, Device Manufacturing. Teneros was selected as CRN's 2007 Emerging Tech Dynamo and was honored by AlwaysOn as an AO 100 Private Company Award winner in 2006 and 2007. The company is headquartered at 321 East Evelyn Ave in Mountain View, Calif., 94041. More information is available at http://www.teneros.com/.
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