OnForce announces addition of former Monster, EMC and PC Connection executives to its leadership team
Boston, October 27, 2008 – OnForce , the largest marketplace for information technology
(IT) and consumer electronics (CE) professionals, announced the recent addition of three
senior executives to its leadership team to support the company’s continued growth. Maria
Battaglia was named senior vice president of marketing; Edward McGovern was named
senior vice president of sales & business development; and George D’Errico was named
vice president of marketplace operations. Battaglia and McGovern will report directly to
Peter Cannone, CEO, and D’Errico will report to Paul Nadjarian, SVP of Product.
“We‘re thrilled to bring these three outstanding leaders to the OnForce team,” said CEO
Peter Cannone. “OnForce has experienced enormous gains in the past year, despite
these economic times. We now have nearly 14,000 professional service technicians
across the US and Canada who have completed nearly 800,000 work orders on behalf of
major VARs, staffing firms and solutions providers that use OnForce as their marketplace.
By adding these three leaders, we are going to bring the OnForce message to even larger
audiences and establish the infrastructure for further growth acceleration.”
Cannone added, “We set out to broaden and deepen our leadership team in order to
support our growth, and Maria, Ed and George each have the expertise to help lead
OnForce as we help more buyers and providers of on-site services recognize and
leverage the power of OnForce’s marketplace.”
Battaglia brings more than 15 years of experience in strategic branding, marketing and
corporate communications for global technology and consumer brands. Battaglia joins
OnForce from Weplay.com, where she headed marketing for the youth sports social
networking company. She previously served as vice president of brand integration and
partnerships at Monster.com and worked at NBC as a corporate vice president of
communications and public affairs. Previously, Battaglia was in IBM ’s Internet Division and
ran strategic communications for IBM’s 1996 Atlanta Olympics Global Sponsorship.
McGovern has more than 20 years of sales experience. McGovern will lead OnForce’s
sales and business development and have overall responsibility for the company’s
revenue goals. He was most recently at EMC in their enterprise division, where he was
responsible for sales groups delivering storage, software and professional services
solutions. McGovern has also led sales organizations for Danka Office Imaging, Advent
Software , Micro Warehouse and Xerox Corporation .
D’Errico has more than 15 years of alliance management, marketing and operations
experience. He will oversee OnForce’s training, community management and market
support efforts. He served most recently as senior director of product management,
purchasing & supply chain operations for PC Connection . D’Errico has also served as
national sales manager of AirTouch Wireless.
About OnForce
OnForce is the leading marketplace for contract information technology (IT) and
consumer electronics (CE) service professionals. The company enables VARs, service
organizations and staffing companies to find skilled professionals in virtually every zip
code in the US and Canada. These IT service firms turn to OnForce to expand their
geographic and skill set coverage without adding overhead or upfront expenses.
OnForce enables increased buyer control and reduced management costs, while
improving service levels and offering faster response times than traditional methods of
finding contract technicians.
Since its inception, the OnForce marketplace has been used to successfully complete
more than 800,000 work orders. The OnForce community is made up of 5,000+ IT
service buyers and nearly 14,000 IT service technicians who work in a number of
technology categories, including computers, printers, networking, VoIP, point of sale and
consumer electronics. For more information, visit www.onforce.com .