Hostway Services has appointed Jim Ciampaglio as vice president of channel partners, while John Enright has been appointed general manager of the Web and application services business unit.
Ciampaglio will drive channel partnership activities for all Hostway services, where he will expand Hostway’s relationships with existing partners and form new alliances to drive additional growth, including the key market segments of telecommunications and cable, managed service providers, VARs and systems integrators. He’ll also be taking the lead in bringing new recently released Cloud Connex reseller platform to a broader set of partners.
Prior to joining Hostway, Ciampaglio led reseller and retail channel sales at Verio. His 20-plus years of experience also include key leadership roles with Verizon, FireHost, NaviSite and NeoSpire.
Enright will head up the Web and Application Services business division, bringing more than 20 years of hosting industry leadership experience to his new role. He founded one of the first North American hosting companies, ValueWeb, in 1994, increasing revenue to more than $20 million before the company merged with Affinity Internet. At Affinity, Enright le product and portfolio diversification projects and brought on key strategic partners, growing channel revenue from 10 percent to 40 percent of total revenue. Prior to joining Hostway, Enright was COO of LimeLabs, a global Internet incubator, and most recently served as president of HostMySite, the small business division of Hosting.com.
“This is an exciting time at Hostway as we evolve to respond to market changes and diversify our service offerings to meet growing client demand,” said Robert Boles, CEO of Hostway Services, Inc. “Jim and John will play integral parts in our drive to consolidate and expand our leadership position in the industry. They will greatly contribute to our stated goal of delivering more targeted solutions to the SMB space with industry-leading service levels.”
