Airship Names Joe Russell Chief Financial Officer

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SaaS CFO to scale and manage growth as the company unlocks new ways for brands to capture more customer value inside and outside the app

PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–#CXAirship, the mobile app experience company, today announced Joe Russell has joined its executive leadership team as Chief Financial Officer. In this role, Russell will oversee Airshipโ€™s finance and business operations and report directly to CEO and president Brett Caine.




Russell is a seasoned executive leader with deep expertise in enterprise SaaS. He has led new financial and operational management strategies that accelerated growth while balancing profitability. Russell previously served as CFO of Netbase Quid, an enterprise SaaS provider for data analytics. Prior to that, he held CFO roles at BrightEdge and TalentWave. Russell also worked at Piston Cloud Computing (acquired by Cisco), where he was VP of Finance and Business Operations. Earlier in his career, he led product and sales operations with VMware and Yahoo, and worked as an investment banker at GCA Savvian and Credit Suisse First Boston.

โ€œJoe brings an incredible set of skills and expertise in helping SaaS companies improve operational efficiency, accelerate growth and fuel innovation โ€” making him the perfect match to help execute the next stages of Airshipโ€™s expansion,โ€ said Brett Caine, CEO and president, Airship. โ€œFor well over a decade, Airship has been first to support game-changing, annual mobile app innovations from Apple and Android, and now weโ€™re redefining whatโ€™s possible every day by freeing marketers and product owners to enhance native app experiences without developer support. The no-code eraโ€™s impact on value creation, and Airshipโ€™s opportunity to unlock it, are massive, and Iโ€™m thrilled to have Joe join our team at the helm.โ€

โ€œAirship has a long history of driving mobile-first innovations that have transformed customer engagement models across industries and redefined how brands create value today,โ€ said Joe Russell, CFO, Airship. โ€œThe future is even more exciting. Brands everywhere know the impact mobile apps have on growth and loyalty and their customers do too, but both are often left wanting more. Airshipโ€™s unique focus on optimizing the entire mobile app customer lifecycle and empowering a brandโ€™s entire team, are well timed for todayโ€™s most pressing needs. I look forward to seizing the opportunity with the team.โ€

Russell holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MSc in Accounting and Finance from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and he graduated with a BS in Economics from the University of Washington.

About Airship

No one knows more, does more, or cares more than Airship when it comes to helping brands master mobile app experience (MAX).

From the beginning of apps, Airship powered the first commercial messages and then expanded its data-led approach to all re-engagement channels (mobile wallet, SMS, email), app UX experimentation, no-code native app experience creation and App Store Optimization (ASO).

Having powered trillions of mobile app interactions for thousands of global brands, Airshipโ€™s technology and deep industry expertise have enabled apps to become the digital center of customer experience, brand loyalty and monetization.

With the Airship App Experience Platform and Gummicubeโ€™s ASO technology and expertise, brands now have a complete set of solutions to optimize the entire mobile app customer journey โ€“ from the point of discovery to loyalty โ€“ driving greater value for everyone involved.

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Contacts

North America:

Corey Gault

Airship

+1 503-206-9164

[email protected]

Kali Myrick

Kali Myrick Communications

+1 503-580-4645

[email protected]

EMEA:

Ana Williams

Airship

+44 (0)20 3405 5160

[email protected]

Pauline Delorme

Tyto PR

+44 (0)20 3934 8882

[email protected]

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