Anthony Ricco CMO, DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean LLC, the cloud for developing modern apps, announced two additions to its executive team: Jeff Giannetti as chief customer officer and Anthony Ricco as CMO.

They will lead the company’s sales, marketing, business development and support teams to deliver the power of simplicity, community and service to developers, tech start-ups and businesses worldwide.
 
In his role Giannetti will be responsible for customer growth and engagement, while overseeing customer success, support and international go-to-market.

Ricco will oversee marketing as well as community and developer relations, and will be focused on leading and scaling the company’s organic growth initiatives.

“Both Jeff and Anthony are well-versed in the landscape for the cloud market, and also possess the exceptional organization-building experience needed to grow world-class customer and marketing functions,” said CEO Mark Templeton. “We believe the developer community has the potential to grow to more than 100 million globally, creating an amazing opportunity for our ‘simpler is better’ developer cloud. One of my top priorities since joining earlier this year has been ensuring we have the right leadership to capitalize on this opportunity. As we look to 2019, I’m excited to add this level of talent and leaders who share our DigitalOcean passion for bringing modern app development within rech of millions of developers around the world.” 

Most recently, Jeff Giannetti served as SVP of Americas sales at Veeam Software. While there, he managed a team of more than 500 and led a 33% year-over-year revenue increase for the Americas. Prior, he was at IBM, where he drove sales object storage cloud offering following the company’s acquisition of Cleversafe, and grew the sales organization from 60 to more than 300 globally in two years. He also spent more than a decade at NetApp, where he oversaw a revenue target of $1.2 billion annually, and has held several additional sales and leadership positions at Lotus Development, Sun Microsystems and Ernst & Young.

“The measure of any company is how it treats its customers, and one of the things that attracted me to DigitalOcean is its undeniable commitment to its customers and the community at large,” he said. “One of my primary missions will be to keep us laser-focused on nurturing, delighting and growing customers throughout their journey – from continuing to invest in our industry-leading customer support to exploring new channels to deliver customer value and expand internationally.”

Anthony Ricco has 25 years of experience across product and marketing, including 15 years at Citrix where he held several executive leadership positions. As VP of worldwide demand marketing he drove the company from $800 million to $2 billion, and as the GM and VP of the emerging mobility product group he doubled year over year revenue to $100 million. A former engineer, he also has 10 years of technology start-up experience from founder to developer roles, for understanding DigitalOcean’s target customers.

“DigitalOcean has one of the most engaged developer communities I’ve seen, which is great testament to the product value and cultural devotion in everything our employees do,” he said. “I’m looking forward to bringing DigitalOcean’s story to an even wider audience, scaling our brand and operations and capitalizing on the growing need for simpler, more developer-centric solutions for creating and managing modern apps.“

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2013.11.12 | Press Release