TimeTrade Appoints Mike Puglia as Vice President of Marketing

TimeTrade Appoints Mike Puglia as Vice President of Marketing | Bild: © Phecs

As TimeTrade?s VP of Marketing, Puglia is responsible for managing and executing product, marketing and communications strategy and programs to drive sales and revenues through increased adoption of the company?s award-winning cloud-based products and services, and to enhance awareness of the company?s position as the world leader in business appointment automation.

?Mike Puglia is a tremendous addition to TimeTrade?s world-class management team--- a result-driven leader who?ll help take our company, products and market penetration forward to the next level,? said Gary Ambrosino, President and COO, TimeTrade. Through his past affiliations with Salesforce.com and other cloud technology innovators, Mike has a proven, stellar record of achievement in marketing, product management, and sales acceleration.?

"Appointments are the meetings that define the success or failure of businesses. And, as the market leader, TimeTrade is charting the future of online scheduling? said Puglia. ?Businesses are looking to interact with their customers in new ways and TimeTrade is uniquely positioned to help organizations accomplish this goal. I?m excited to be part the team and Internet look forward to working closely with our customers to demonstrate the value of our solution.?

Mr. Puglia joins TimeTrade from Salesforce.com -- the world?s leading CRM and enterprise cloud computing vendor, where he lead the integration of real-time collaboration technologies into Salesforce?s Chatter Social Enterprise platform. Prior to his role at Salesforce, Mr. Puglia was VP of Marketing at Dimdim, a provider of cloud-based collaboration and web conferencing capabilities used by more than six million people worldwide. Salesforce.com acquired Dimdim in January 2011.

An engineer by training, Mr. Puglia has served in successive executive positions in marketing and product marketing for computer software/security companies including Director of Product Marketing at Veracode and Senior Director of Product Marketing at Lumigent Technologies. From 2001- 2006, Puglia was Senior Director of Product Marketing and Management at Bluesocket, Inc. a global provider of virtual security and management solutions for mobile wireless local area networks (WLANs).

Puglia received an MBA from the Carroll Graduate School of Management at Boston College, and holds a BSEE from the University of New Hampshire.

About TimeTrade

As the world?s most widely deployed and used online appointment scheduling provider, TimeTrade increases sales and customer satisfaction through proven cloud solutions that make it easy for customers and prospects to connect and converse with the right people inside a company. Its solutions power real-time, rule-based appointment scheduling across team members, locations, and timeslots to set the meetings that drive business. For more than a decade, Fortune 500 companies have deployed TimeTrade Appointment CRM solutions to help them better engage, interact with, and satisfy their customers.

The TimeTrade Cloud platform integrates easily with enterprise sales, marketing, service, CRM, and business process management systems to accelerate bottom-line business results and drive inbound sales, while enhancing customer experience and loyalty. TimeTrade?s proven appointment scheduling solutions help brand-name retailers and other customer-focused organizations organize, automate and synchronize appointment setting across the entire customer lifecycle, and helps company reps act on customer interest, 24x7x365, anywhere, anytime. http://www.timetrade.com.