{"id":13459,"date":"2015-07-01T17:36:51","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=13459"},"modified":"2015-07-01T17:36:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T21:36:51","slug":"continuum-names-new-senior-vice-president-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2015\/07\/continuum-names-new-senior-vice-president-of-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuum Names New Senior Vice President of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"

With Over 25 Years of Experience, Former ACI Worldwide VP of Engineering John Mandel Assumes Leadership of Continuum\u2019s 180-Person Engineering Team<\/em><\/p>\n

Boston, MA, July 1, 2015<\/em> \u2013 Continuum\u00ae, the industry’s only channel-exclusive provider of fully integrated managed IT services solutions, named John Mandel as Senior Vice President of Engineering, assuming leadership for the company\u2019s 180-person worldwide engineering team. John was Vice President of Engineering at ACI Worldwide (Nasdaq:ACIW), a leading global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, where he was responsible for four products that contributed nearly 50 percent of ACI\u2019s $1 billion in revenue. He has over 25 years of engineering experience with a noteworthy record of building teams that consistently deliver high quality enterprise and SaaS solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn has had a tremendous career leading world-class engineering teams that embody all of the attributes that Continuum possesses \u2013 large, powerful teams based in India and the U.S.,
\nagile development teams as well as large scale environments developing multiple SaaS products concurrently,\u201d said Michael George, CEO at Continuum. \u201cHis experience will help to accelerate our pace of innovation, advance the ease of integration into our already, market leading portal platform, advance technical diligence on M&A opportunities, and ensure our leadership in RMM, backup and cloud
\nservices.\u201d<\/p>\n

Prior to ACI, John led various engineering teams in large and small as well as mature and entrepreneurial companies. Most recently, he was Technical Advisor at Dazzmobile, helping with technology options, partnership evaluations and product definition for its new mobile SaaS platform. He was Vice President of Product Development at Kofax, a leading provider of smart process applications that combine market leading capture, process management, mobile and analytics capabilities, recently acquired by Lexmark International, Inc. He was also Vice President, Engineering at Plectix BioSystems. In 1998, he co-founded MarketSoft and spent more than seven years as Vice President, Engineering and CTO. He has held various engineering roles for Unica Corporation, Wildfire Communications and Epoch Systems, among others. John has a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science from University of Massachusetts in Lowell.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe opportunity to dominate the fully managed IT services market for the SMB is what drove me to join the executive team at Continuum,\u201d said John Mandel. \u201cI\u2019m excited to join this seasoned executive team committed to delivering the best game changing products to our MSPs.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to driving all aspects of product development, John is known for ensuring customer success by meeting their product requirements and driving services delivery.<\/p>\n

Continuum has engineers located at the company\u2019s headquarters in Boston, in Mumbai and the company\u2019s R1Soft location in Houston, acquired in August 2014. Continuum recently announced adding Hugh Scandrett, Vice President of Engineering at EnerNOC, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENOC), a leading provider of energy intelligence software (EIS), to its Board of Advisors.<\/p>\n

For more information on the leadership team at Continuum, visit: http:\/\/www.continuum.net\/company\/meet-our-team.<\/p>\n

About Continuum Managed IT Services<\/em>
\nContinuum is the technology industry’s only channel-exclusive provider of fully integrated managed IT services, allowing its Managed Services Provider (MSP) partners to maintain both on premise and cloud-based servers, desktops, mobile devices and other endpoints for small-and-medium-sized businesses. Continuum\u2019s SaaS platform enables MSPs to efficiently backup, monitor, troubleshoot and maintain clients\u2019 IT infrastructure from a single pane of glass, all backed by an industry\u2013leading network operations center (NOC) and Help Desk. MSPs leverage Continuum\u2019s pay-as-you-grow business model to scale IT services without committing to long-term contracts and to reserve in-house staff for strategic initiatives. The company employs over 1,000 professionals worldwide, supports over 3,500 partners and monitors over 650,000 endpoints. For more information, visit http:\/\/www.continuum.net\/ or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @FollowContinuum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With Over 25 Years of Experience, Former ACI Worldwide VP of Engineering John Mandel Assumes Leadership of Continuum\u2019s 180-Person Engineering Team Boston, MA, July 1, 2015 \u2013 Continuum\u00ae, the industry’s only channel-exclusive provider of fully integrated managed IT services solutions, named John Mandel as Senior Vice President of Engineering, assuming leadership for the company\u2019s 180-person worldwide engineering team. John was Vice President of Engineering at ACI Worldwide (Nasdaq:ACIW), a leading global provider of electronic payment and banking solutions, where he was responsible for four products that contributed nearly 50 percent of ACI\u2019s $1 billion in revenue. He has over 25 years of engineering experience with a noteworthy record of building teams that consistently deliver high quality enterprise and SaaS solutions. \u201cJohn has had a tremendous career leading world-class engineering teams that embody all of the attributes that Continuum possesses \u2013 large, powerful teams based in India and the U.S., agile development teams as well as large scale environments developing multiple SaaS products concurrently,\u201d said Michael George, CEO at Continuum. \u201cHis experience will help to accelerate our pace of innovation, advance the ease of integration into our already, market leading portal platform, advance technical diligence on M&A opportunities, and ensure our leadership in RMM, backup and cloud services.\u201d Prior to ACI, John led various engineering teams in large and small as well as mature and entrepreneurial companies. Most recently, he was Technical Advisor at Dazzmobile, helping with technology options, partnership evaluations and product definition for its new mobile SaaS platform. He was Vice President of Product Development at Kofax, a leading provider of smart process applications that combine market leading capture, process management, mobile and analytics capabilities, recently acquired by Lexmark International, Inc. He was also Vice President, Engineering at Plectix BioSystems. In 1998, he co-founded MarketSoft and spent more than seven years as Vice President, Engineering and CTO. He has held various engineering roles for Unica Corporation, Wildfire Communications and Epoch Systems, among others. John has a bachelor\u2019s degree in computer science from University of Massachusetts in Lowell. \u201cThe opportunity to dominate the fully managed IT services market for the SMB is what drove me to join the executive team at Continuum,\u201d said John Mandel. \u201cI\u2019m excited to join this seasoned executive team committed to delivering the best game changing products to our MSPs.\u201d In addition to driving all aspects of product development, John is known for ensuring customer success by meeting their product requirements and driving services delivery. Continuum has engineers located at the company\u2019s headquarters in Boston, in Mumbai and the company\u2019s R1Soft location in Houston, acquired in August 2014. Continuum recently announced adding Hugh Scandrett, Vice President of Engineering at EnerNOC, Inc. (Nasdaq:ENOC), a leading provider of energy intelligence software (EIS), to its Board of Advisors. For more information on the leadership team at Continuum, visit: http:\/\/www.continuum.net\/company\/meet-our-team. About Continuum Managed IT Services Continuum is the technology industry’s only channel-exclusive provider of fully integrated managed IT services, allowing its Managed Services Provider (MSP) partners to maintain both on premise and cloud-based servers, desktops, mobile devices and other endpoints for small-and-medium-sized businesses. Continuum\u2019s SaaS platform enables MSPs to efficiently backup, monitor, troubleshoot and maintain clients\u2019 IT infrastructure from a single pane of glass, all backed by an industry\u2013leading network operations center (NOC) and Help Desk. MSPs leverage Continuum\u2019s pay-as-you-grow business model to scale IT services without committing to long-term contracts and to reserve in-house staff for strategic initiatives. The company employs over 1,000 professionals worldwide, supports over 3,500 partners and monitors over 650,000 endpoints. For more information, visit http:\/\/www.continuum.net\/ or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @FollowContinuum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[86],"tags":[1972],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13460,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13459\/revisions\/13460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}