AirWatch Appoints David Dabbiere Chief Operating Officer

AirWatch, a provider of mobile security, mobile device management and mobile application management announced the appointment of David Dabbiere to the role of chief operating officer. As COO, Dabbiere will manage legal, finance, human resources, IT and administration and help AirWatch scale its operations and global presence.

Dabbiere most recently was senior vice president, chief legal officer and secretary of Manhattan Associates where he served a major role in the company’s successful initial public offering. He was also responsible for all of Manhattan Associates’ global legal matters, contract administration and the corporate Code of Ethics. Before Manhattan Associates, Dabbiere was an associate general counsel at The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G), where he oversaw legal matters related to P&G’s Beauty Care, Health Care and Cosmetics & Fragrances business units.

“David is a great leader and seasoned software executive. Our clients and team will benefit immensely from his extensive experience and proven success building large organizations,” said John Marshall, CEO, AirWatch. “We continue to accelerate investments in our team and technology and David’s expertise will help scale our global operations.”

“AirWatch has established itself as the leading global MDM provider through constant innovation and market leadership,” said David Dabbiere, COO, AirWatch. “This is a tremendous opportunity to join one of the industry’s most experienced management teams and further differentiate our solution and delivery capabilities.”

AirWatch enables organizations across a wide variety of industries to deploy, secure, monitor, manage and support their entire fleet of mobile assets with technology solutions that are quick to deploy and easy-to-use. AirWatch is built on a highly scalable, multi-tenant architecture and meets enterprise requirements for high availability and disaster recovery. AirWatch’s multi-tenant architecture allows enterprises to uniquely manage across regions or P&Ls with various requirements for directory services, certificate authorities, corporate services, security and compliance.

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