Hubspan Announces New Leadership and Record Growth
Appointment of Trisha Gross as CEO and Al Higginson as Chairman Caps Year of Record Growth and Growing Demand for Business-to-Business Integration Services
SEATTLE – December 10, 2007- Hubspan, Inc., the leading provider of Integration-as-a-Service (IaaS) solutions for business-to-business commerce, appointed Trisha Gross as president and CEO. Gross replaces Al Higginson, who now serves as Hubspan’s chairman.
The appointment of Gross and Higginson marks tremendous growth for Hubspan. The company grew monthly recurring revenue by nearly 50 percent over the past 12 months with transaction volume growing by 65 percent for existing Hubspan customers during the same timeframe.
“Hubspan’s growth demonstrates the undeniable need for deeper customer integration across all types and sizes of companies,” said Trisha Gross, CEO for Hubspan. “Based on this need, Hubspan is experiencing tremendous demand for our ability to deliver a strategic advantage through tighter customer relationships and truly integrated business processes.”
Gross has more than 20 years of enterprise technology experience, most recently serving as Executive Vice President of Sales, Services and Marketing where she was responsible for Hubspan’s overall go-to-market strategy. Her prior experience includes executive roles leading the client services team at Hubspan, as well as with enterprise software companies such as Concur Technologies and Lawson Software.
“Gartner and other industry analysts expect mid-size companies to double multi-enterprise business integration and interoperability efforts over the next five years, spending 50 percent more on business to business projects through 2011 ,” said Al Higginson, chairman of Hubspan. “Hubspan is ideally positioned to capitalize on this growth, offering a unique multi-tenant architecture, a flexible service model, and rapid return on investment.”
With more than 20 years of senior-executive experience, Higginson was most recently CEO of Hubspan before his transition to chairman of Hubspan’s board of directors. Having joined Hubspan in 2001, he led the company’s mission to drive market adoption for multi-enterprise integration services through a single, scalable integration platform. Higginson also serves as the board chair at Seattle-based F5 Networks (NASDAQ: FFIV).
About Hubspan, Inc.
Hubspan connects businesses by providing a complete business-to-business integration solution for companies of all sizes. More than 9,000 trading partners across 34 countries benefit from Hubspan’s scalable, flexible technology. Hubspan’s market-leading solution, delivered as a service, yields increased revenue, improved customer satisfaction and retention, and increased operational efficiency faster and more cost-effectively than in-house development. Hubspan serves some of the largest, global enterprises as well as organizations with just a few hundred employees – managing even the most complex business processes.