Randy Seidl Board’s Director, Datawatch

Datawatch Corporation, provider of self-service data preparation and visual analytics solutions, announced that Randall P. ‘Randy’ Seidl has been appointed to the company’s board of directors, effective immediately.

His addition expands the board to eight members.

Randy Seidl brings extensive experience in software sales leadership, ranging from emerging growth organizations to Fortune 500 companies. He is currently CEO of Revenue Acceleration, a consulting firm he founded in 2013 based in Wellesley, MA, that provides companies with strategic and tactical sales leadership insights, high-performing industry talent and critical customer and partner access.  Previously, he served as S VP and GM of the US Enterprise Group at Hewlett Packard, overseeing more than 3,000 employees and responsible for $9 billion in annual revenues.  Prior to Hewlett Packard, he served as SVP and GM, North America at Sun Microsystems. He began his career at EMC, where he was the 33rd employee, and over 11 years with the company held a number of key global sales and marketing roles.  On the emerging company side, he served as CEO and a board member of Permabit; co-founder and EVP of GiantLoop, and chairman and CEO of Workgroup Solution, which was acquired by Advizex.

He is a graduate of the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, and currently serves as a Trustee Associate of the College; he was previously a member of the Boston BC Club’s Board of Governors.

Said Richard de J. Osborne, COB, Datawatch, “We are very pleased to attract such an experienced software sales professional to our Board.  As Datawatch moves to take advantage of the opportunity in the data preparation market with our highly differentiated Monarch technology, we welcome the advice and counsel from Randy to assist us in these efforts.”

He added: “I see Datawatch on the threshold of an enormous opportunity to exploit big data by making it more accessible and useful, and this dynamic always offers the opportunity to drive long-term growth. I am excited to join the Datawatch Board and leverage my experiences and relationships to help build upon Datawatch’s technological advantage and create sustainable market leadership in this rapidly growing part of the analytics market.”