GUPTA Appoints New Vice President and Managing Director EMEA & APAC

Gupta Technologies (“GUPTA”) announced today the appointment of Mr. Mark Bygraves as its new VP and Managing Director of EMEA and APAC. In this role, Mr. Bygraves will be responsible for driving GUPTA’s channel sales programs for EMEA & APAC, together with day-to-day operational responsibilities for Northern Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Mr. Bygraves has worked in the IT industry for 20 years, and has held a number of senior positions including, most recently, Director of Channels at Hitachi Data Systems, where he established a partner program in the United Kingdom and Europe for their range of Storage RAID Arrays. He was Sales Director at Transformation Software, where he ran their $25 million Storage Division and created channel markets for companies such as Legato, Veritas, and StorageTek. Mr. Bygraves was also instrumental in transitioning Network Associates’ direct business to a channel model on a worldwide basis.

“Throughout his career, Mark has demonstrated a special ability to increase revenues, meet business goals and enhance the bottom line," said Jeff Bailey, GUPTA’s CEO. "As a company that sells through partners, we are particularly impressed with Mark’s channel marketing background. We look forward to him working closely with our network of channel partners in Europe and Asia, to ensure that they have the tools to continue to both grow our customer base and keep the large installed base of customers happy with our solutions”.

“I am delighted to continue GUPTA’s push into the Windows/Linux and Cross-Platform arena and build on the tremendous success that we have achieved over the last three years”, said Mark Bygraves.

GUPTA products power applications that affect millions of people everyday where reliability and security are critical – including filling prescriptions, sending packages, and using on-line banking services. For over 20 years, GUPTA has provided proven, secure, and reliable software that speeds application development and insulates applications from underlying platform changes - allowing seamless movement into the future.


Gupta Technologies, LLC
GUPTA Technologies (/) is a world leader in software development and data management solutions serving a global network of over 10,000 developers. For true cross platform development of Linux® or Windows® -based applications, GUPTA's award winning SQLBase®and Team Developer™ are the answer to rapid development and cost effective solutions.

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