A provider of pre-production staging and testing solutions for IT Operations teams, StackSafe, Inc., today announced that Loren Burnett, the company's president, CEO and founder, has been named by the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) to its board of directors. Burnett will serve a three-year term on the board and aid in NVTC recruitment, revenue raising and planning.
Over 29 years of management experience are bought by Burnett to his position on the NVTC Board. He served, prior to founding StackSafe, as COO and CFO of a consumer brand management company, Astral Brands, and oversaw the explosive growth of Astral's revenue base. Burnett, prior to joining Astral, served as the president, CEO, and chairman of the board of a provider of enterprise application integration software and services, Celcorp. He served as senior vice president and CFO at Riptech, where he was instrumental in the company's $145 million sale to Symantec, Inc. in August 2002.
NVTC is the membership and trade association for the technology community in Northern Virginia and is the largest technology council in the nation. Representing more than 200,000 individuals, NVTC has about 1,100 member companies. Including information technology, Internet, software/hardware, biotechnology, telecommunications, ISPs, bioinformatics, aerospace, and nanotechnology, as well as the service providers that play an important role in supporting these companies, its membership includes companies from all sectors of the technology industry. In addition, universities, foreign embassies, non-profit organizations, and governmental agencies are members and take an active participation in meeting NVTC goals and objectives.
Highlighted by their flagship product, StackSafe™ Test Center, StackSafe is a leading developer of pre-production staging and testing solutions for IT Operations teams. Launched at DEMO 2008, Test Center gives IT professionals a virtual sandbox in which to test software upgrades, patches or other changes prior to release, helping organizations to avoid downtime and production problems associated with changes.
