Apperian Announces Appointment of Brian Day to CEO

BOSTON, Dec. 9, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Apperian® Inc., the mobile application management company, today announced that Brian Day has been promoted to the role of Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Day previously held the role of President and Chief Financial Officer at Apperian and succeeds David Patrick, who is assuming the role of Chairman.

"The industry is quickly shifting from device-centric mobility management to a focus on protecting and managing at the app-level," said Brian Day, President and CEO of Apperian. "I'm thrilled that customers are recognizing the differentiated value we deliver and I'm honored to lead Apperian to even greater success as the market continues to move toward our vision for mobile application management."

Mr. Day, who joined Apperian as CFO in May 2011 and was promoted to President earlier this year to support the company's swift growth, has spearheaded critical partnerships and has been instrumental in establishing Apperian's largest and most strategic enterprise customer relationships. In his role as Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Day will lead Apperian as the company sees continued customer growth and pipeline acceleration and will work closely with the senior team to execute its business strategy.

Mr. Day succeeds David Patrick, who served as CEO for more than four years. Mr. Patrick will remain active with Apperian and focus primarily on guiding the management team, offering strategic counsel, while continuing to serve in advisory roles to other organizations such as Chair of the Presidential Advisory Board for Berklee College of Music and advisor to several Boston-based software ventures.

"It has been an incredible and exciting four years helping to build Apperian, our solution and a management team I believe are second to none," said David Patrick, Chairman of Apperian. "With our pipeline and customer traction increasing rapidly, 2015 is a time for aggressive execution and this team is perfectly primed to seize the market opportunity ahead."

About Apperian
Apperian is the leading enterprise-class mobile application management and app store platform for the secure delivery of critical apps to 100% of users across an organization. Apperian provides fine-grained security and dynamic policy controls at the individual app level for deployments where mobile device management approaches are not possible or desired, such as BYOD, contract workers and other unmanaged devices.

Apperian's easy to use interface offers a private, branded consumer-like enterprise app store that greatly increases mobile app adoption and a comprehensive app management back-end for administrators to easily protect and manage their business apps and data. The company has helped IT and line of business professionals secure and deliver more than 1.3 million enterprise apps to organizations such as Maxim Integrated Products, NVIDIA, Nationwide, New Balance, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Apperian is headquartered in Boston with teams throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. For more information please visit http://bit.ly/ApperianLearnMore or follow the company on Twitter at @Apperian and LinkedIn at Apperian, Inc.

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SHIFT Communications
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