David Smith VP Sales and Marketing, Tenzing

Tenzing Managed IT Services (Tenzing, Inc.), provider of e-commerce managed services, announced that David Smith has joined the company as VP sales and marketing.

An industry veteran with both managed services and e-commerce experience, he will oversee the operations and growth of the sales and marketing organizations.

“We have seen great success in Q1 surpassing our goals for the quarter. We see that B2C and B2B merchants are looking for expertise and world-class support managing their ecommerce applications and infrastructure,” said Raj Atwal, president. “I’m excited to have David on board. With his track record and experience, I am looking forward to him scaling our success to meet retailer’s needs as we continue to show a strong pipeline for Q2 and beyond.“

With experience in both managed services and e-commerce, the addition of Smith to the Tenzing executive team reaffirms the Tenzing’s commitment to e-commerce. As the former director of channel partnerships at e-commerce vendor Elastic Path, and VP of partner sales at cloud backup and recovery platform Asigra, Smith has experience in both managed services and e-commerce. His channel experience will allow him to further the organization’s commitments to their system integrator and platform partnerships. Before this, he enjoyed success at a number of software companies, including Platform Computing, PureEdge Solutions, Hummingbird and SAS. He started his career working on the IT side of house as a developer, analyst and ultimately IT manager, at both Imperial Oil and Canadian Tire, and earned an MBA from Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto.

“I’m thrilled to join the Tenzing family. I am incredibly impressed by the operational excellence Tenzing has built and how much their existing customers value what they deliver. Tenzing has built a set of solutions that support e-commerce success. Their focus on scalability, performance and security is aligned to the industry’s needs, and their solutions are helping retailers succeed,” said Smith. “I am excited to bring the Tenzing story to a wider market, to support the sales and marketing organization as they engage with an industry that is looking for expertise and innovation.”