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Bill Lapp Joins GoodData as Vice President, Sales Engineering and Enablement

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Former Cisco executive to drive growth strategy for sales engineering and support customer-centric innovation of Open Analytics Platform

SAN FRANCISCO – April 17, 2014 – GoodData®, the leader in end-to-end cloud analytics, today announced the addition of Bill Lapp as Vice President, Sales Engineering and Enablement. Lapp joins GoodData with more than 12 years of experience in high performance computing, SaaS, and enterprise sales leadership. In this role, he will support continued innovation of GoodData’s Open Analytics Platform and prepare the sales engineering team for future growth.

Lapp comes to GoodData from Cisco, where he held leadership roles in product development, deployment, acquisition integration. While at Cisco, Lapp led the US Enterprise Collaboration Systems Engineering organization that was instrumental to the company's sales transition from individual collaboration technologies to the Cisco's Enterprise Collaboration Platform.

"As we continue to scale our organization and platform, finding the right person to lead this important team is a critical step for us," said Roman Stanek, founder and CEO of GoodData. "Bill brings the right combination of technical expertise and strategic vision needed to support a growing sales engineering team and inform our platform development. We are thrilled to have him on board."

In this role, Lapp will work to align sales and services goals, prioritize customer-centric product innovations, drive strategic enablement and hone product and service deployment.

"In the crowded space of business intelligence, GoodData is rapidly emerging as the leader in end-to-end cloud analytics," said Lapp. "As we enhance the Open Analytics Platform, equally important is to enhance our sales engineering capability with the right resources to better serve our customers and prospects. I am excited to join the company to improve customer experience, lead an all-star team, and help grow the business."

About GoodData

GoodData is on a mission to break data silos. Flexible, open, secure, and scalable, GoodData’s leading data and analytics platform provides standardized metrics and real-time analytics across organizations and to their customers. To this day, GoodData has helped more than 140,000 of the world’s top businesses deliver on their analytics goals and scale their use cases — from self-service and embeddable analytics to machine learning and IoT.

GoodData is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, General Catalyst Partners, Intel Capital, TOTVS, and others. For more information, visit GoodData's website, and follow GoodData on LinkedIn, YouTube, Medium and Twitter.

GoodData Contact

Kristyna Vlckova,
Senior Director, Demand Generation
kristyna.vlckova@gooddata.com

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