NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Box today announced it is opening a full-scale office in New York City
to expand its global presence and better serve its fast-growing
enterprise customer base. The company also announced that Adam Ross has
joined Box to lead the company’s financial services team as a part of
the Box for Industries initiative. Mr. Ross, who will be based in New
York City, will be responsible for driving Box’s strategy in the
financial services industry, speeding adoption of Box’s secure content
collaboration platform with banks, insurance companies, and investment
and advisory firms globally.
"Now more than ever, the most highly regulated industries - from
financial services to healthcare - require modern digital technologies
that accelerate business and deal with outdated compliance procedures,
new regulations, and cybersecurity threats," said Aaron Levie, CEO and
co-founder, Box. "We're thrilled to be building out a presence on the
East Coast where we'll continue hiring the best talent to bring
our secure enterprise cloud platform to customers with the most strict
technology needs and requirements."
Box NYC
Box’s New York City office will serve new and existing customers
headquartered throughout the Northeast across all major industries,
including financial services, healthcare, media and entertainment,
retail and not-for-profit. Among Box’s more than 47,000 customers today,
Greater New York City Area customers include General Electric, KKR & Co.
L.P., Barneys New York, Brooks Brothers, Tiffany & Co., Lord & Taylor,
Saks Incorporated, Universal Music Group, AMC, Comcast, The Related
Companies, Cushman & Wakefield, Mount Sinai Health System, and Teach for
America, among others.
Opening in the fall, Box NYC will include talented employees from across
different departments and functions at Box, all focused on the common
goal of revolutionizing how organizations collaborate and engage with
their most important content.
Adam Ross, Managing Director, Box for Financial Services
Mr. Ross brings more than 20 years of financial services industry
experience to Box. Most recently, Ross was VP of Global Corporate
Solutions at NASDAQ, where he helped lead the development and delivery
of a state-of-the-art, cloud-based suite of products and services to
thousands of global customers.
Launched in February 2015 as part of Box for Industries, Box
for Financial Services has driven adoption with customers such as
KKR & Co. L.P., Nationwide Insurance, AAA and Encore Capital. Box for
Financial Services combines several tailored solutions and product
enhancements, including Retention Management, Watermarking, and
Enterprise Key Management.
"Leading financial firms and their IT organizations are recognizing
that transitioning to the cloud offers more than just
increased productivity; it can also transform workflows, deepen customer
relationships and yield valuable insights into their content," said Adam
Ross. “I'm excited to join Aaron and the Box team to grow Box for
Financial Services and help organizations transform the way they
work and collaborate, all within a secure and compliant cloud ecosystem."
Earlier in his career, Ross also served as General Manager of Bloomberg
Financial, LLP, where he grew its global trading software business from
zero to 85 firms, while managing strategic customer alliances. He has
also held leadership positions at Raymond James Financial and Volpe
Brown Whelan.
To learn more about Box for Financial Services, please visit www.box.com/industries/financial-services-insurance/.
To hear more about how other innovative companies across industries
are transforming their business in the cloud, join us at BoxWorks 2015,
September 28 – 30 at Moscone Center in San Francisco www.box.com/boxworks/.
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 businesses 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.
