Key Achievements
- July 2010 – Intermedia reaches 250,000 premium hosted Exchange mailboxes under management
- July 2010 – Intermedia launches Outlook 2010
- May 2010 – Intermedia launched SharePoint 2010
- November 2009 - Intermedia reaches 225,000 premium hosted Exchange mailboxes under management
- November 2009 - World's first provider of Microsoft Exchange 2010 as a hosted service
- July 2009 - Intermedia reaches 200,000 premium hosted Exchange mailboxes under management
- May 2009 - Intermedia promoted to gold member of Research in Motion's BlackBerry Alliance Program
- May 2009 - First provider of hosted Office Communications Server for BlackBerry smartphones
- February 2009 - Intermedia offers 99.999 percent SLA for hosted Exchange
- January 2009 - Intermedia offers customers single sign-on with synchronized Active Directory
- July 2008 - Intermedia reaches 300,000 business mailboxes under management
- June 2008 - Intermedia passes SAS 70 Type II certification audit
- February 2008 - Intermedia begins offering email encryption as a service
- January 2008 - Intermedia launches first hosted Office Communications Server 2007 service
- November 2007 - Intermedia joins Research in Motion's BlackBerry Alliance Program
- September 2007 - Intermedia's hosted Exchange Services voted best by MSExchange.org
- December 2006 - First provider of hosted Exchange 2007
- September 2000 - First provider of hosted Microsoft Exchange
Key Stats
| Founded | 1995 |
|---|---|
| Company type | Privately held |
| Financial status | Profitable and debt-free |
| CEO | Serguei Sofinski |
| Headquarters | New York, NY |
| Additional locations | Sunnyvale CA, London UK and St. Petersburg, Russia |
| Datacenters | Multiple Tier-4 datacenters in California, New York, London |
Executives
Serguei Sofinski, Chief Executive Officer
Joining Intermedia in 1998, Sofinski has led the company's rapid growth into the world's leading provider of business email services. Starting in product management, he served as Intermedia's VP of Operations, then as COO, before assuming his current role of CEO in 2006. With over a decade of experience in the software industry, Sofinski’s wide range of knowledge, from the product and technical side to operations and business development, has helped Intermedia to see continuous growth, year after year. Sofinski also serves as a thought leader, lending his expertise to the software and services industry as a whole. Sofinski holds a BS in geophysics from State Maritime Academy in St. Petersburg, Russia.
William Gomes, Chief Financial Officer
Since 2004, William “Bill” Gomes has been the chief financial officer at Intermedia where he is responsible for the financial health of the company. In his role he also oversees the accounting and billing functions. Prior to Intermedia, Gomes was a controller and CFO for 12 years – most recently with Tiger Information Systems, a staffing firm which oversees placements in the financial and legal space. While in the role, Gomes developed part of the accounting system software used by the company. Gomes has both his undergraduate degree (accounting and finance) and his MBA (taxation and information systems) from New York University and was valedictorian of his tax class.
Jonathan McCormick, Chief Operating Officer
As COO, Jonathan McCormick manages all Intermedia hosting operations and operations staff. With the company since 2007, Mr. McCormick has played an integral role in bringing a number of industry firsts to market for the company including Intermedia’s proprietary DataEcho technology for data replication, and the launch of the company’s first in-country UK datacenter. Mr. McCormick creates a positive environment heading Intermedia’s Sunnyvale, CA office where inter-department collaboration and teaming is a strong focus.
Prior to joining the team at Intermedia, Mr. McCormick was employed as the SVP of operations and client services for SAVVIS, the global provider of managed hosting, network and collocation facilities. In this capacity he was responsible for the management of all operations and customer service organizations globally.
Mr. McCormick is frequently sought after as a thought leader in the business communications space to add commentary on industry trends and events. He has been published in such outlets as EWeek, Network World and SC Magazine. He received a double major in Psychology and Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
Manlio Carrelli, Chief Marketing Officer
Manlio Carrelli serves as Intermedia’s chief marketing officer. He joined the company in May 2009. From 2005 through 2009, Carrelli served as principal and founder of The Carrelli Group where he advised CEOs, CMOs and heads of sales at Fortune 500 firms and a portfolio of venture-backed B2B technology companies. Carrelli previously ran marketing for TradeCard, a provider of online supply chain finance services with $20 billion in transaction volume and 5,000 customers in 50 countries. TradeCard experienced explosive revenue growth during his tenure, including a more than 100 percent year-over-year increase in 2004.
Prior to TradeCard, Carrelli served as a marketing director at Managed Objects, where he played a critical role in developing the concepts behind Business Service Management – an enterprise software market that today generates billions of dollars in annual license revenue. Managed Objects was acquired by Novell in 2008. Carrelli graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Maryland at College Park.
Robert E. Leibholz, Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development
Robert “Bob” Leibholz oversees Intermedia's sales and business development activities as well as key partnerships. He is responsible for creating and expanding the company’s channel network to over 4,000 private label partners, as well as the extension of the program to Latin America and inking deals with Fortune 100-ranked Ingram Micro and Dell. He has lead Intermedia’s sales growth to become the industry leader in the business communication space.
In past positions at companies such as ASCAP and The Harry Fox Agency, Inc., Leibholz led licensing, sales and client relationship disciplines. Long a technology-focused business executive, he was the chief business driver for numerous technology projects, including an entertainment industry digital rights management system and many web-based client-facing applications.
A graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University, Leibholz served as editor for the American Management Associate course, The Art and Discipline of Managing Software Projects. A frequent speaker, he is sought after as a thought leader in business communications for small and medium size businesses.
Andrew Gachechiladze, Senior Vice President of Product Development and Engineering
Andrew Gachechiladze leads Intermedia’s product development and engineering groups overseeing the development of software products for a hosted environment – including software as a service (SaaS) and unified communications as a service (UCaaS).
With the company since 2001, Gachechiladze was previously a product manager for hosted Microsoft Exchange. During his tenure, he helped Intermedia deliver new hosted products (such as Exchange 2007, Exchange 2010, OCS 2007 and Unison) ahead of the competition. He also helped promote policies and procedures for the software development and engineering teams (such as general architecture, development cycles and communications) that allows Intermedia to develop and support one of the hosted industry’s best control panels.
Prior to Intermedia, Gachechiladze was a software developer at ThinkWave, the California-headquarted software company as well as at KomiEximBank in Moscow, Russia. He also held the position of technical director at SAnet, the first internet hosting company located in the Republic of Georgia.
Gachechiladze holds a degree in physics and computer science from Tbilisi State University.
Industry partners
Intermedia partners with industry leaders to provide your company with the highest-quality of service.
Intermedia is a Microsoft® Gold Certified Partner. We provide the highest levels of technical expertise, strategic thinking and hands-on skills. Intermedia runs Microsoft Exchange 2010 and 2007 as well as the latest versions of other major Microsoft applications, and is a member of Microsoft's Technology Adoption Program.
Intermedia is part of the Research in Motion BlackBerry® Alliance Program, which means we have access to industry-leading resources in development and technology for BlackBerry solutions. Research In Motion (RIM) is a leading designer, manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions for the worldwide mobile communications market. RIM's portfolio of award-winning products, services and embedded technologies are used by thousands of organizations around the world.
EMC Corporation is the world's leading developer and provider of information infrastructure technology and solutions. Intermedia uses EMC exclusively for storage area networks for a faster and more reliable environment than running Exchange on individual servers with local hard drives.
Dell is one of the world’s largest and most reliable producers of servers and hardware. Intermedia uses Dell servers exclusively to house all of our Exchange and web data in a highly reliable environment.
VMWare is the world’s leading provider of virtualization solutions for x86-based servers and desktops. With a dedicated OS instance for each virtual server and more robust isolation of one VPS from another, Intermedia’s hosted VMware goes way beyond basic VPS hosting.
Register.com is a leading provider of global domain name registration and Internet services. Domain names are part of the foundation of the Internet, serving as addresses and identities on the web. Through its partnership with Intermedia, Register.com offers its domain registration services to our small and medium-sized business customers. Register.com offers customers a quick and user-friendly registration process, backed by 24x7 online and toll-free phone customer support.
MSP Partners is an alliance of leading IT companies that recognize the importance of managed services to their channel partners. They are joined together by a common dedication to the development of their solution provider communities by creating a comprehensive source of education on MSP success.
Intermedia is partnered with Network Solutions, Inc. (a VeriSign company) to offer you domain registration services with free parking at Intermedia servers.
GeoTrust is a leading provider of next generation Internet services that address the fundamental need for e-business security and confidence. Intermedia is partnered with GeoTrust to provide Secure Certificates for web sites, which allow for an encrypted (secure) exchange of information between our customer's sites and their visitors.
Trend Micro Incorporated is a pioneer in secure content and threat management. Intermedia employs Trend Micro’s antivirus protection on our Exchange servers to add an extra layer of security to our environment.
Motorola Good Technology provides the best mobile enterprise software on the most powerful smart phones and mobile platforms, with the best wireless carriers, delivered by the most trusted channels. GoodLink lets mobile employees work from anywhere and stay up to date with Microsoft Outlook applications from their handheld. Intermedia is partnered with GoodLink in order to provide our customers with a wireless messaging and corporate data access system which offers a rich laptop-like experience.
Adobe Systems, Inc. provides software that empowers millions of developers and designers to efficiently create the most effective user experiences on the Internet. Intermedia offers support for Macromedia ColdFusion allowing developers to quickly create a variety of applications, from advanced web sites to dynamic publishing systems.
U.S. Merchant Systems stands among the leaders in the transaction processing industry, representing major processors including Visa®, MasterCard® and American Express®. Intermedia is partnered with U.S. Merchant Systems to provide fast and reliable payment processing services.
Commtouch, a leader in email and Internet security, provides market-leading anti-spam, Zero-Hour virus outbreak protection and reputation solutions based on patented Recurrent Pattern Technology (RPD). Intermedia utilizes Commtouch technology in its SpamStopper email security solutions, along with other technologies, to provide industry-leading mail protection to its customers.
With 3,000 Partners in 30 countries, Level Platforms is the leading provider of managed services software for IT solution providers servicing small and midsize end customers through its award-winning agentless remote monitoring and management software, Managed Workplace®. Level Platforms provides everything a Managed Services Provider needs to remotely monitor and manage their complete end customers' IT environment through a single web-based central dashboard – the platform for today, and for tomorrow. Intermedia Private Label Partners can use Managed Workplace to remotely monitor their customers’ hosted Exchange mailboxes. For more information, visit Level Platforms at www.levelplatforms.com.
Awards
As a leading provider of hosted services, Intermedia has gained industry recognition for both its services and its highly-trained customer support team. Below are some of the recent awards Intermedia has received.
HostReview Fastest Growing Company - May 2009 Award
