{"id":14073,"date":"2015-08-31T09:30:49","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/?p=14073"},"modified":"2015-08-31T09:30:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:30:49","slug":"continuums-steve-cardillo-promoted-to-vice-president-of-corporate-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/news\/2015\/08\/continuums-steve-cardillo-promoted-to-vice-president-of-corporate-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuum\u2019s Steve Cardillo Promoted to Vice President of Corporate Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Boston, MA, Aug. 25, 2015 \u2013<\/em> Continuum, the industry&#8217;s only channel-exclusive provider of fully integrated managed IT services solutions, has promoted Steve Cardillo to Vice President of Corporate Development.<\/p>\n<p>Steve joined Continuum in late 2011 after sourcing the investment opportunity for Summit Partners, the Boston-based growth equity firm with more than $16 billion in raised capital. Since joining Continuum, Steve has led the company\u2019s corporate development efforts, establishing relationships with key technology partners such as LogMeIn, Malwarebytes and Webroot\u00ae, and driving the company\u2019s acquisition strategy. As part of this, Steve identified and led the company\u2019s acquisition of R1Soft, a leading provider of server backup software for the Web hosting industry, which now serves as the backbone of Continuum\u2019s new backup and disaster recovery platform, Continuity247\u2122.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSteve has made key contributions to Continuum before day one,\u201d said Michael George, CEO at Continuum. \u201cWhile at Summit, Steve uncovered this unrealized line of business inside of a publicly held company and discovered it had extraordinarily unique attributes that supported a strong growth opportunity going forward. In addition to leading business development and acquisitions, Steve has brought a transformative, metrics-driven approach to the entire business \u2013 a completely new way of thinking that has enabled us to predict performance with an extraordinarily high degree of accuracy \u2013 quarters and years ahead. I am grateful to have someone of Steve\u2019s unique set of skills on my team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve will continue to lead Continuum\u2019s corporate development efforts, encompassing the establishment of relationships with key technology partners and the definition and execution of the company\u2019s acquisition strategy. Steve also continues to head the company\u2019s analytics strategy, including the development of an organization-wide business intelligence platform. Prior to Continuum, Steve spent several years at Summit Partners identifying and executing investments in rapidly growing software businesses and the software-as-a-service industry. Prior to Summit, he worked in investment banking at Citi\u00ae in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the leading private software companies in the Boston area, Continuum is experiencing tremendous growth and is poised for a very bright future,\u201d said Steve Cardillo. \u201cI look forward to continuing to support the success of the organization as we transform the managed services industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steve is also actively involved with the greater Boston community. Since 2008, he has served on the board of Minds Matter of Boston, a non-profit organization that transforms the lives of accomplished high school students from low-income families by preparing them for college success. He is also a strong supporter of the Pan Mass Challenge, the largest single athletic fundraiser in the United States and a key funding source of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.<\/p>\n<p><em>About Continuum Managed IT Services<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Continuum is the technology industry&#8217;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 3,500 partners servicing 50,000 SMB customers and monitors over 675,000 endpoints. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.continuum.net\/\">http:\/\/www.continuum.net\/<\/a> or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston, MA, Aug. 25, 2015 \u2013 Continuum, the industry&#8217;s only channel-exclusive provider of fully integrated managed IT services solutions, has promoted Steve Cardillo to Vice President of Corporate Development. Steve joined Continuum in late 2011 after sourcing the investment opportunity for Summit Partners, the Boston-based growth equity firm with more than $16 billion in raised capital. Since joining Continuum, Steve has led the company\u2019s corporate development efforts, establishing relationships with key technology partners such as LogMeIn, Malwarebytes and Webroot\u00ae, and driving the company\u2019s acquisition strategy. As part of this, Steve identified and led the company\u2019s acquisition of R1Soft, a leading provider of server backup software for the Web hosting industry, which now serves as the backbone of Continuum\u2019s new backup and disaster recovery platform, Continuity247\u2122. \u201cSteve has made key contributions to Continuum before day one,\u201d said Michael George, CEO at Continuum. \u201cWhile at Summit, Steve uncovered this unrealized line of business inside of a publicly held company and discovered it had extraordinarily unique attributes that supported a strong growth opportunity going forward. In addition to leading business development and acquisitions, Steve has brought a transformative, metrics-driven approach to the entire business \u2013 a completely new way of thinking that has enabled us to predict performance with an extraordinarily high degree of accuracy \u2013 quarters and years ahead. I am grateful to have someone of Steve\u2019s unique set of skills on my team.\u201d Steve will continue to lead Continuum\u2019s corporate development efforts, encompassing the establishment of relationships with key technology partners and the definition and execution of the company\u2019s acquisition strategy. Steve also continues to head the company\u2019s analytics strategy, including the development of an organization-wide business intelligence platform. Prior to Continuum, Steve spent several years at Summit Partners identifying and executing investments in rapidly growing software businesses and the software-as-a-service industry. Prior to Summit, he worked in investment banking at Citi\u00ae in New York City. \u201cOne of the leading private software companies in the Boston area, Continuum is experiencing tremendous growth and is poised for a very bright future,\u201d said Steve Cardillo. \u201cI look forward to continuing to support the success of the organization as we transform the managed services industry.\u201d Steve is also actively involved with the greater Boston community. Since 2008, he has served on the board of Minds Matter of Boston, a non-profit organization that transforms the lives of accomplished high school students from low-income families by preparing them for college success. He is also a strong supporter of the Pan Mass Challenge, the largest single athletic fundraiser in the United States and a key funding source of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. About Continuum Managed IT Services Continuum is the technology industry&#8217;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 3,500 partners servicing 50,000 SMB customers and monitors over 675,000 endpoints. For more information, visit http:\/\/www.continuum.net\/ or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.<\/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\/14073"}],"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=14073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14075,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14073\/revisions\/14075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.enxmag.com\/twii\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}