Rise appoint new Managing Director to develop Cloud Infrastructure Services

Rise, the Gloucester based provider of Cloud infrastructure and hosted services, is delighted to announce the promotion of Alex Hilton to Managing Director of the company, having successfully built sustainable partnerships through the Rise brand as Sales Director since joining the company in June 2010.

With well over 100 partners signed in the UK and US, a new strategic relationship with Ingram Micro UK, and a number of other significant anonymous white label partners, the Rise business flourished in 2011. In conjunction with being awarded Microsoft’s Global Hosting Partner of the Year in 2011, the business has grown at a very rapid pace and now warrants recognition as its own entity within the broader group.

Andy Burton, CEO Rise said: “We are exceptionally pleased to be able to promote Alex from within the company to Managing Director. Not only can Rise benefit from his wealth of experience, channel and industry knowledge, but he also understands the goals of the company and how we hope to achieve them.”

Burton continued: “Rise is a highly strategic part of the €2bn group revenue and we will further develop our IT services portfolio with Rise in the coming year. The Rise business has demonstrated the success we can have in this space with the right product portfolio and partnerships, we will be adding significant resources and investment to it in 2012 to ensure it becomes a globally recognised Cloud services provider.”

Alex has over 20 years of experience working in the software industry, with 12 years at Microsoft managing partner relationships, anti-piracy and compliance initiatives culminating in building and running their Software Asset Management business. He is also a non-executive board director of the Federation Against Software Theft.

Alex commented: “I am relishing the opportunity of being managing director at Rise. I have been extremely impressed by the level of service that the organisation provide to their partners, and will endeavor to maintain the high standards that the company has built its reputation on, whilst growing the business at the same time. I am also very excited to be at the forefront of a business that is changing the way service and infrastructure applications are being delivered.”


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About Rise
Rise is the channel sales division of Fasthosts Internet Group. Based in Gloucester UK, Rise provides Cloud Computing and hosted IT services to a variety of customers, who rely on its web-hosting services and DataCenter on Demand™ platform. Rise equips its channel partners with the infrastructure they need to provide Cloud services. This includes virtual and dedicated servers, storage, backup, web hosting and disaster recovery.
Rise host these services from the secure infrastructure of Rise's DataCenter on Demand and support them 24/7/365. In honour of its commitment to delivering products and services for outstanding adoption and application of innovation, Rise was named 2011 winner of The Hosting Partner of the Year Award, at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Awards, as well as being awarded the Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Partner of the year in March 2011. For more information, please see: http://uk.rise.co/