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Dave McCann will help guide Cutover’s SaaS platform direction for cloud disaster recovery and regulated application management as it embraces the AI wave
London UK, August 29, 2024: Cutover, a leader in collaborative automated runbooks built specifically for highly regulated complex IT operations, is pleased to announce that Dave McCann, former VP of AWS Engineering for AWS Marketplace, Data Exchange, Control Services and Migration Services, has been appointed to its board of directors. Mr. McCann is a seasoned technology executive who brings decades of technology innovation experience and proven commercial expertise delivering software to multiple regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, oil and gas and governmental entities.
“We are delighted and privileged to add Dave to our board. Dave brings deep cloud experience spanning executive leadership, strategic planning, product development and commercialization. His broad expertise will be a tremendous asset to Cutover and the board as we drive the continued growth of our SaaS platform and delight our customers by bringing new innovative solutions to market,” said Ky Nichol, CEO and founder of Cutover. "Dave’s appointment reflects the board's ongoing commitment to the importance of aligning the qualifications and experience of our directors with our strategy and growth opportunities as we scale. We welcome Dave to the board and look forward to him helping us make faster decisions and execute optimally as we help our customers navigate the velocity of cloud migrations, optimizing workload resilience and AI innovation for complex application deployments.”
“I am delighted to join Cutover’s board and to work with the management team as the company continues to enrich its solution offering,” said Mr. McCann. “Cutover has clearly earned the trust of many top financial institutions with their collaborative, dynamic automated runbook platform that cleverly combines automation, orchestration, visibility and human decision-making, reducing cost and risk. Regulated industries such as financial services and healthcare are still moving their immense application portfolios to the cloud at pace, seeking higher productivity levels and faster innovation. I look forward to supporting Cutover as they continue to advance and innovate on their strategy to help IT operations teams raise productivity, accelerate their agile engineering, and prove resilience and recoverability to regulators. I am also looking forward to being able to help Cutover scale globally.”
About Dave McCann: With 40 years of technology experience, including eight years in AWS, executive roles at Microsoft and IBM, and as CEO of four US VC- backed startups, Dave's expertise and experience in applications and systems for global enterprises is proven and broad. He ran or built leading AWS Services for Application & Data deployment, (Software Marketplace, Data Exchange), for application and resource governance (Control Tower/Service Catalog, App Registry), and for cloud migration and modernization (Migration Services/Migration Hub). Now semi-retired, Dave continues to advise select enterprises and software companies in the US and EMEA on scaling, cloud application resilience, cloud operations, digital supply chain and data governance. He also donates time and intellect to guiding several west coast US charities on using data and systems to improve their homelessness services to get people housed faster. He and his wife Angela spend time between the USA and UK.
About Cutover: Cutover’s Collaborative Automation SaaS platform, built specifically for IT operations, enables enterprises to simplify complexity, streamline work, and increase visibility for disaster recovery, cloud migration, and application release. Many of the world's largest financial institutions, including five out of the six largest asset managers and three out of the top five US banks, use Cutover. Learn more at www.cutover.com