LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)–September 17, 2014–
Unitas Global, a leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions, announced today the addition of Patrick Shutt to its senior leadership team. Mr. Shutt joins the firm as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Shutt brings more than 20 years of leadership experience within the technology and communications industries.
Mr. Shutt’s experience includes co-founding Universal Access, where he served as CEO from October of 1997 to November of 2002. Under his leadership, Universal Access grew from a start up to greater than a $140 million run rate in revenue within four years. After Universal Access, Mr. Shutt co-founded 20/20 Technologies in January 2003. The organization acquired several technology companies, eventually operating under the global brand of Global Capacity. Shutt served as CEO and Board Member of Global Capacity until 2012 and still remains a Board Member today.
With Mr. Shutt joining the Unitas Global team, the company’s founder Grant Kirkwood can devote his time and energy to developing and executing the company’s strategic vision in the role of Chief Technology and Strategy Officer.
“As a strategic advisor and Board Member, Patrick has been an integral part of our success to date. We are excited to have such a dynamic, results-driven entrepreneur on the team and look forward to Unitas continuing on its growth trajectory under his leadership,” said Grant Kirkwood, founder of Unitas Global. “With the enterprise cloud transformation currently underway, coupled with powerful market trends, Unitas has an opportunity to offer highly differentiated and compelling services to its enterprise client base. It is extremely important that we have the right balance of people to achieve our strategic growth initiatives.”
“Unitas Global is well positioned to achieve significant growth as it continues to take an innovative leadership approach in the explosive cloud market,” said Patrick Shutt. “During this historic period of change within the technology industry, I am thrilled and honored to join such a forward-thinking organization with a truly capable team of managers, along with a highly experienced group of investors and Board of Directors.”
“We are excited to have Patrick expand his role within Unitas,” said Paul Weinstein, Chairman of the Board and General Partner at Azure Capital Partners. “Patrick’s wealth of domain and industry experience will add operational excellence commensurate with Unitas’ next stage of growth.”
“Patrick’s proven track record of successfully cultivating technology companies makes him an ideal fit for Unitas,” said Bret Maxwell, Board Member and Managing General Partner at MK Capital. “The board is excited to see the continued growth of Unitas Global within the fast-growing cloud services industry.”
For more information about Unitas Global and its executive team, please visit www.unitasglobal.com.
About Unitas Global
Unitas Global is the leading provider of enterprise cloud solutions. The company’s mission is to provide services that enable clients to focus on more innovative and strategic business objectives. Specifically, the Unitas Enterprise Private Cloud (EPC) solution provides clients with custom, highly secure and dedicated IT environments that are easy-to-consume, fully managed and backed by an end-to-end SLA, guaranteeing application uptime. By offloading day-to-day infrastructure operations to Unitas Global, our clients are able to refocus and optimize their internal IT resources toward more innovative business-centric initiatives. Unitas is headquartered in Los Angeles, with clients and locations spanning the globe. For more information, please visit www.unitasglobal.com.
Unitas Global
Michelle Weiss, 213-785-6200
michelle.weiss@unitasglobal.com
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