PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Box (NYSE: BOX) today announced it has brought on Jeremy Grinbaum,
former global sales executive of cloud services at Microsoft, to lead
the company’s efforts in France and southern Europe. Grinbaum will drive
Box’s strategy as the company continues to expand in Europe.
Box first opened a local office in Paris in 2013, and with Grinbaum
coming on board, Box will increase its efforts to help businesses in
this region transition to the cloud. Grinbaum, based in Paris, will grow
the local sales teams while establishing new ways to help businesses
move to a more mobile and collaborative way of working.
“We are seeing significant traction in France and southern Europe as
businesses in these regions begin to adopt cloud systems to drive
efficiency and collaboration,” said David Quantrell, SVP and GM of EMEA
at Box. “We are excited to accelerate our growth in southern Europe, and
Jeremy’s leadership and expertise are exactly what we need to drive the
adoption of Box’s content and collaboration platform.”
“France and southern Europe are moving quickly in the adoption of new
technologies. Enterprises are looking for solutions that will allow them
to move off of expensive, legacy architecture and create more agile and
iterative environments for employees,” said Jeremy Grinbaum, regional
vice president for France and southern Europe. “I am excited to join
this innovative company and play a role in helping organizations
transform the way they work.”
Before joining Box, Grinbaum spent three years at Microsoft on the
Office 365 team. He was a founding member of PersonAll, a social
enterprise startup. Before that, Grinbaum helped coordinate the launch
of Google Apps for Business in the Enterprise team. He also brings
experience from IBM Tivoli where he began his career in sales.
Grinbaum graduated from INSEEC Business School in Paris where he studied
International Trade and Finance.
Box makes it easy for more than 34 million individuals at 45,000
organizations around the world to share, access and collaborate on files
securely. The company has seen sustained growth in France and southern
Europe with deployments at French and international enterprises
including: Schneider
Electric, General
Electric, Lago
Paris, Anglo
American and Royal
HaskoningDHV.
About Box
Founded in 2005, Box (NYSE: BOX) is transforming the way people and
organizations work so they can achieve their greatest ambitions. As the
world's leading enterprise software platform for content collaboration,
Box helps business of all sizes in every industry securely access and
manage their critical information in the cloud. Box is headquartered in
Los Altos, CA, with offices across the United States, Europe and Asia.
To learn more about Box, visit www.box.com.
