Performance Horizon Expands Leadership Team; Announces New Executive Hires

Chief Information Officer and VP Marketing join amid rapid growth and increased demand for digital partner marketing platform

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 08, 2015

Performance Horizon, the global leader in digital partner marketing, today announced the recent addition of two executives to meet the company's growing global IT and communications needs. Alistair Wyse was appointed Chief Information Officer and Erik Mikisch was named Vice President of Marketing.

"Ever since Performance Horizon set out to completely redefine how brands connect with online marketing partners, we've gained significant traction and have continued on a trajectory of rapid growth," said Chief Executive Officer, Malcolm Cowley. "The vast experience and expertise both Alistair and Erik bring to their respective roles will help expand our reach."    

Mr. Wyse is an accomplished strategic technology leader and brings more than 15 years of experience in developing web-based products and services that are delivered through server, cloud hosting and telecommunications infrastructure. As Chief Information Officer, Wyse will oversee Performance Horizon's technology infrastructure and strategic alignment of IT with business priorities during this period of rapid growth. Most recently, Wyse was Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Piiku, a digital content monetization platform for publishers. Previously, he was Chief Technology Officer and held other senior positions in operations and product development at PlusNet, a U.K.-based Internet Service Provider.

Mr. Mikisch has more than 20 years of executive experience in sales and marketing with mobile, high tech, advertising, and new media companies in the B2B and B2C spaces. As Vice President of Marketing, Mikisch will lead the development and implementation of all Performance Horizon's internal and external marketing activities. Mikisch was most recently Senior Director, Solutions Marketing at Rocket Fuel, contributing to the company's hyper growth over the last four years, and Vice President at ThomasNet.com, one of the most successful B2B websites in the U.S. Prior to ThomasNet and for more than 10 years, Mikisch was part of senior management in various high growth, technology companies, focusing on sales and marketing.

Major brands in travel, retail, finance and digital content rely on the Performance Horizon platform to drive customer acquisition, revenue increases and profitability gains through their online marketing channels. This includes the ability to optimize campaign performance, deploy creative, manage partner and product spend, adjust commission rates and run promotions on the fly, easily integrate into existing workflows and systems via the open architecture as well as process partner payments globally within one day.

For information about how your can benefit from Performance Horizon and to request a demo, visit http://www.performancehorizon.com.

About Performance Horizon
Performance Horizon, the leading provider of SaaS solutions for digital partner marketing, enables brands to directly connect with their marketing partners to dramatically increase customer acquisition and drive high margin revenues from online marketing channels. With offices in the U.S., U.K., Japan and Australia, Performance Horizon's platform drives $3B+ in advertiser top line revenues across 120,000 marketing partners in over 170 countries. Performance Horizon is backed by top-tier investors, including Mithril, Greycroft Partners and DN Capital. For more information, visit http://www.performancehorizon.com and follow us @tweetphg.

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