Spare Backup, Inc. Announces Strategic Organizational Changes
PALM DESERT, Calif., July 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Spare Backup, Inc. (BULLETIN BOARD: SPBU) announced today that it has instituted several strategic organizational changes to maintain its exponential growth.
Peter Dubler has been named Vice President of Innovation and Technology, Mr. Dubler will provide directional leadership for research and development, quality, and product management.
Mr. Dubler brings 26 years of industry experience to Spare Backup. He joined Hewlett-Packard in 1981. His various positions at Hewlett Packard included Technical Computer Sales Engineer, Workstation Systems Worldwide Technical Marketing, Support, Consulting, and Training Manager, Workstation Graphic Product Marketing Manager, and Open Migration Worldwide Program Manager. He was responsible for many innovative and successful global programs and products, including HP’s TradeUp programs and creation of the HP Visualize graphics product line and branding. In these roles, Mr. Dubler led large teams of technology professionals, spanning multiple continents, languages, and cultures resulting in turnarounds of multi-hundred million dollar product lines and programs.
Mr. Dubler serves on the board of a privately held software development company and is technical advisor to a privately held marine electronics company. He has provided technical and marketing consulting to many start-ups over the last fifteen years.
Mr. Dubler graduated with honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1981 where he was a member and president of the Phi Eta Sigma honorary society. He was an exchange scholar at the University of Heidelberg and Chairman of the World Student Fund at Georgia Tech. Mr. Dubler is also a recipient of the Presidential Award of Excellence for Environmental Service.
Spare Backup also announced that Alton Hoover, previously Vice President of Engineering at Spare Backup, has accepted the vital role of Vice President of Technical Operations where he will be responsible for all aspects of the ongoing build out and management of the infrastructure necessary to allow the seamless growth of the Company’s customer base.
Mr. Hoover served as a principal investigator for the National Science Foundation on the Internet Backbone and as a principal investigator on the Southeast University Research Association internet project (SURANET).
Mr. Cery Perle, CEO of Spare Backup, stated, “Continuity and quality of service to our current and rapidly expanding customer base is critical to our ongoing success and, consequently, we need top notch people to ensure that occurs.”
“We intend to maintain an efficient and streamlined internal organization while innovating and developing substantial additional functionality and value in our products and services. Our core development, project management, and quality assurance teams will work with external partners and contractors to leverage this core talent while maintaining the lean organization.”
All Technical, R&D, and Quality activities will report to Pete Dubler, who brings with him extensive experience and an outstanding track record of growing the effectiveness of global technical teams. Under his leadership, and with the skills of such people as Al Hoover, our new Vice President of Technical Operations, we will develop our core team to a world-class organization ready to scale to meet our growth and new product opportunities this growth will present to us.”
About Spare Backup, Inc
Spare Backup, Inc. specializes in helping consumers, small office/home office users, and small to mid-sized businesses protect their computer data quickly, automatically and cost-effectively. The company’s flagship Spare Backup product is the first totally automated online backup service that intelligently selects, secures and stores files without any user intervention, automatically backing up documents, email, music, photos and other PC files on a continuous basis or according to the schedule of the user’s choice. The company is headquartered in Palm Desert, Calif.
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CONTACT: Robert Schatz of Wolfe Axelrod Weinberger Assoc. LLC,+1-212-370-4500, rob@wolfeaxelrod.com, for Spare Backup
Web site: http://www.sparebackup.com/