Paul Speciale CMO, Appcara

Appcara, Inc., a cloud application platform vendor, has appointed Paul Speciale as its chief marketing officer.

A veteran technology marketing and product leader at both high-profile cloud start-ups and Fortune 500 technology leaders, he brings bench depth in the expanding IaaS and big data sectors, where Appcara’s model-based architecture has made it a company to watch by analysts.

 Speciale joins Appcara bringing over 20 years of end to end product, marketing and go to market strategy development experience that has taken previously unknown companies from product conception to commercial delivery and revenue, and has bee a part of several cloud-related technology start-ups. Most recently he was VP of products at Amplidata where he helped to launch the company’s AmpliStor object storage system into the market and to secure key OEM relationships. Prior to that, he was part of the Savvis Cloud Solutions team, launching the Gartner Magic Quadrant-leading Symphony VPDC cloud service to market. He also helped guide marketing and product management at Qlayer, a cloud orchestration product vendor which was later acquired by Sun Microsystems. Earlier in his career he worked in technical architecture and product roles at Oracle, IBM and others.

He holds BS and MA degrees in applied mathematics from UCLA.

"As big data deployments and enterprise applications move into cloud-based deployments, the demand for faster, easier application deployment and management solutions is reaching a crescendo," said John Yung, CEO of Appcara. "Paul is the perfect marketing leader to help Appcara accelerate our momentum, communicate the advantages of our solutions, and to build relationships in key accounts and partnerships. We’re delighted to have someone of his caliber on our team."