Megaport Appoints IT Industry Veteran Jim Brinksma to the Executive Team as Chief Technology Officer
March 08 2022 - 3:00PM
Business Wire
Jim Brinksma joins Megaport as Chief Technology
Officer after senior IT leadership roles at Ciena BluePlanet,
Goldman Sachs, and InnovoEdge
Megaport Limited (ASX: MP1) ("Megaport"), a global leading
Network as a Service (NaaS) provider, announced today the addition
of Jim Brinksma to the executive team in the role of Chief
Technology Officer. Brinksma will lead Megaport’s global technology
and engineering organisations and have responsibility for the
company’s innovation roadmap.
Brinksma brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise
IT, telecommunications, financial services, and blockchain
industries. Most recently, Brinksma was the Co-founder and CTO of
InnovoEdge, which was acquired by Megaport in 2021. Prior to
joining Megaport, Jim held technology leadership roles at Ciena
BluePlanet and Goldman Sachs. He also served more than seven years
in the United States Navy and has a doctorate from University of
Maryland.
“We are excited to bring Jim’s deep technological expertise and
leadership to Megaport’s global technology and engineering
organisations,” said Vincent English, CEO of Megaport. “Jim
was integral to the development and launch of Megaport ONE, our
white-label, multi-tenant SaaS platform that enables service
discovery and provisioning through Megaport’s leading Network as a
Service platform. We’re looking forward to Jim bringing his
considerable knowledge of cloud, applications, and networking and
his track record of innovation to Megaport and to our
industry.”
“I am thrilled to take the next step with Megaport in our
journey as an established leader and innovator in the NaaS market,”
Brinksma said. “Megaport has revolutionised the way businesses
connect, and I’m excited to continue working with our global teams
to develop solutions that will further transform how enterprises
use the cloud and fundamentally transform their IT
architectures.”
Based in New Jersey, USA, Brinksma will report to English.
About Megaport
Megaport is a leading provider of Network as a Service (NaaS)
solutions. The company’s global Software Defined Network (SDN)
helps businesses rapidly connect their network to services via an
easy-to-use portal or our open API. Megaport offers agile
networking capabilities that reduce operating costs and increase
speed to market compared to traditional networking solutions.
Megaport partners with the world’s top cloud service providers,
including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, as well as the
largest data centre operators, systems integrators and managed
service providers in the world. Megaport is an ISO/IEC
27001-certified company.
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