SteelBrick Scales by Recruiting Key Executives from Cloud Leaders and Opening New Offices

SAN MATEO, Calif., Nov. 5, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- SteelBrick announced today the addition of three key executives and the opening of two new offices. The three executives join the rapidly growing CPQ provider bringing experience from cloud leaders ServiceNow, salesforce.com, and Oracle.

• Michael Hoefer, former Director of Platform Engineering at ServiceNow and VP/Chief Architect at CA, has joined SteelBrick as VP of Engineering.
• Kelly Wasden, former Area Vice President Sales at Apttus and salesforce.com, has joined SteelBrick as VP of Sales and Alliances (West)
• John Kim, former Vice President of Sales, CPQ at Oracle and BigMachines, has joined SteelBrick as VP of Sales and Alliances (East)

SteelBrick has expanded its corporate footprint with the opening of new company headquarters in San Mateo, California, and a new operations center in Highland Park, Illinois, near Chicago. The new San Mateo office will serve as the company's technology hub, accelerating product development for SteelBrick CPQ (Configure Price Quote) software on cloud and mobile platforms, as well as building sales and alliances with the world's technology leaders. The new San Mateo facility will help to accelerate this expansion and attract Silicon Valley's top engineering and sales talent. The Chicago area office is home to SteelBrick's Marketing, Sales, Services and Finance/HR/Administration teams. Both new offices also feature dedicated training facilities for enabling SteelBrick's growing base of customers and partners.

SteelBrick provides high-growth customers with next generation Configure Price Quote (CPQ) apps that are fast and easy to deploy. SteelBrick CPQ is built 100% native on the Salesforce1 Platform, so users can create accurate and professional sales quotes quickly and error-free from any device, without leaving the Salesforce1 Sales Cloud.

"SteelBrick has built a loyal and enthusiastic customer base that has grown substantially this year," said Godard Abel, CEO of SteelBrick. "We have expanded the size of our company ten-fold in 2014, and we have been able to attract top talent including these three talented executives that will help us accelerate our growth and provide leadership from our new San Mateo office."

"The fast-growing CPQ market, combined with the widespread adoption of cloud solutions across all business sectors, provides SteelBrick with enormous growth opportunities," said Jason Green, Co-founder and General Partner at Emergence Capital. "We are excited that they have quickly built a strong, capable leadership team with the right experience to capitalize on this, and they are clearly making an impact in the marketplace."  Emergence Capital has invested in cloud leaders, including salesforce.com, Box, Veeva, SuccessFactors (acquired by SAP), and Yammer (acquired by Microsoft). Earlier this year, Emergence Capital invested $6.5 million in SteelBrick.

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About SteelBrick:

SteelBrick provides high-growth customers with next generation Configure Price Quote (CPQ) apps that are 5 to 10 times faster and easier to deploy than traditional CPQ applications. SteelBrick CPQ is built on the Salesforce1 Platform, so users can create accurate and professional sales quotes quickly and error-free on any device, without leaving the Salesforce1 Sales Cloud. Unlike other CPQ solutions that can take a year or more to go live, SteelBrick provides out-of-the-box CPQ that simply works, with most customer implementations completed in just a few weeks. Many innovative, high-growth companies use and rely on SteelBrick CPQ including Cloudera, HootSuite, Nutanix and Nimble Storage. For more, go to www.steelbrick.com.

SOURCE SteelBrick

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