Monday, May 12, 2014

Blue Box Names New CEO

Seattle-based cloud hosting provider Blue Box said this morning that it has named Matthew Schiltz, the former CEO of Tier 3, as its new CEO. Blue Box said its founder and current CEO, Jesse Proudman, becomes Chief Technology Officer of the company, and will remain on the company's board of directors. Blue Box offers up OpenStack-based, cloud computing services. Schiltz had been CEO of Tier 3 until it was acquired by CenturyLink last year. Blue Box is venture backed by Voyager Capital, Founder Collective, and others.