Apptix Announces Shane Smith as Senior Vice President of Technology

Apptix, the premier provider of hosted business communication, collaboration, and IT solutions, today announced the appointment of Shane Smith to the position of SVP of Innovation.

Shane Smith is a collaborative business leader with a deep understanding of Apptix cloud research and experience delivering enterprise-class hosted communications and collaboration solutions, said David Ehrhardt, President and CEO of Apptix. More importantly, he is an insightful visionary and an able pragmatist, laser-focused on providing value to our clients. We are proud to have Shane in his new role to guide us through the exciting technological developments ahead in 2012 and beyond.

Apptix will leverage Smiths experience and guidance as the company rapidly grows its key channel partnerships. Apptix experienced a 125% increase in bookings value through its channel partners in Q3 2011, a trend expected to continue into 2012 with the addition of Insight Enterprises, Inc., a $4.8 billion provider of IT solutions, to the Apptix channel program. Apptix as well seeks growth among the highly-regulated financial, health care, and legal industries through partnerships with specialty associations including AICPA and CPA2Biz, during within the rising small business market, Apptix channel partners include business service organization Network Solutions.