Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Apperian moves to Innovation District, adds new execs

By Rodney H. Brown

Enterprise mobile application developer Apperian Inc. is relocating within Boston, into the South Boston Innovation District, and has hired three new executives to help carry boxes.

Joining Apperian are chief financial officer Brian Day, senior vice president of products Alan Murray and vice president of sales Patrick Welch. According to a press release, Apperian needed to expand its executive staff and relocate to larger space to accommodate rapid growth.

Prior to Apperian, Day was at Goal.com, where he was CFO, and held prior financial and general management positions with venture-backed startups, including SiCortex Inc., Gomez Inc. and Octave Communications. Murray was most recently vice president of product marketing at Novell Inc., where he oversaw the company’s Systems and Resource Management and Identity Security and Management units. Before joining Apperian, Welch was senior vice president for worldwide sales at Aveksa. He also held sales management and business development positions at Netegrity.

Apperian’s new headquarters is at 321 Summer Street in Boston. The move comes on the heels of March’s close of a $9.5 million funding round, from new investors North Bridge Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ (KPCB) iFund, as well as returning backers CommonAngels and LaunchCapital.

Apperian has developed the EASE cloud platform, which allows businesses to “create, deploy, and manage applications for Apple iOS-powered devices.” Officials said that compatibility with Android-based devices would be coming in the near future. The company cites the growing adoption of tablets and smartphones in the enterprise as a driving force behind its own growth plans.

In September, Apperian replaced co-founder Chuck Goldman as CEO with David Patrick, formerly CEO of database virtualization company xkoto. Goldman took on the role of chief strategy officer.