Torbjörn Eriksen joins op5 as VP Professional Services

op5 AB, a Swedish software company, is pleased to announce the appointment of Torbjörn Eriksen as VP Professional Services with responsibility for consulting and projects.

Today’s hybrid IT puts new demands on the IT organization responsible for controlling and managing the whole IT environment and enterprise customers experience a huge expansion of their IT which increases the need for an optimized and distributed monitoring architecture. op5 enables a controlled evolution to the hybrid cloud for Enterprise IT with the software op5 Monitor. Many enterprise customers also seek guidance how to establish a best practice monitoring strategy, including processes and organization. This growing market for consulting is an opportunity for both op5 and partners, therefore the step with recruiting a VP for Professional Services.

Before joining op5, Eriksen was Head of Product and Development; Paxport AB. He started at Swedish BankGiro as one of the software developers 29 years ago. Since then he has been Manager, Managing Director, VP Development, Consultant and Board member in several companies with technical focus.

“Torbjörn Eriksen is a great fit for op5 because of his extensive experience working for a company in the same situation as op5 is in right now”, says Daniel Maurer, CEO op5. “I also believe that we will have great use of his experience working with customers with high demands. This helps tremendously in understanding different kinds of customers – something we will develop together with our partners”.

Torbjörn Eriksen has acquired more than 25 years of experience leading professional services, and business development. He has also worked with process development, services sales, project management, and customer modification development.

“op5 has a really interesting market position with a product that can take care of the demands from customers with a hybrid IT. op5 has the understanding for the end-user experience and troubleshooting applications in an increasingly complex, virtualized and abstract IT world and I am sure it will be a great place to work for me. I am ju also confident that my experience in managing professional services and personnel growth within the enterprise software industry will contribute to its continued success. I am very happy to get this opportunity and I look forward to join op5”, says Torbjörn Eriksen.

Torbjörn Eriksen will join op5 on October 22, 2014