OREANDA-NEWS. February 04, 2015. cloudBuy plc (AIM: CBUY), the cloud ecommerce marketplace, is pleased to announce the appointment, with immediate effect, of Al Powell as Vice President Sales. Al will help drive the expansion of cloudBuy into North America and will have responsibility for sales and revenue generation.

Al joins cloudBuy from Serus Corporation where his role as Vice President Worldwide Sales provided him with extensive experience in the supply chain and procurement business for G1000 companies. Al targeted some of the largest global manufacturers in the world including AMD, Nvidia, Micron, and Qualcomm to assist them in improving the visibility, quality, responsiveness, and reducing the cost of their extensive supply chains. Previously, Al was Vice President of Worldwide Sales for other enterprise software and SaaS-based companies including Corticon (acquired by Progress Software), Postini (acquired by Google) and Intershop Communications, an ecommerce software company with HQ in SF, CA. that Al helped become a public company with a very successful IPO.

Ronald Duncan, Chairman of cloudBuy, commented, "I am pleased to welcome Al to the cloudBuy sales team, we have been market testing our solution in the US and have found that there is a real appetite for what we have to offer, and that there is a clear differentiation from our competitors particularly in the area of secure payments with banking partners.  We have created a number of opportunities with large corporates and Al has joined to close these opportunities, as well as to leverage his experience and networks to create additional revenues."

Al Powell, Vice President of North America Sales at cloudBuy, commented, "I am excited to be joining cloudBuy to accelerate sales and revenue growth in North America. Our products and services are helping large enterprises reduce their cost of doing business and allowing them to use these savings to help fund their growth. The timing could not be better to bring cloudBuy's SaaS-based offerings to North America."