Mainz Barry (Barry Mainz)

2016: Appointment of MobileIron as the head

On January 6, 2016 it was announced appointment of the CEO of MobileIron. Replacement of the leadership of the company happened in day of the publication of rather positive quarter reporting.

Barry Mainz (Barry Mainz) which took the place of Bob Tinker who headed MDM vendor eight years — from its foundation in 2007 is appointed the new chief executive officer (CEO) and the president of MobileIron. Mainz joined MobileIron which member Tinker will also remain the board.

At the beginning of 2016 Barry Mainz headed MobileIron

Before arrival to MobileIron of Barry Mainz headed the Wind River company belonging to Intel and which is engaged in software development for various embedded applications, including cars, printers, network equipment and mobile phones. Behind shoulders of Mainz the wide experience on sales, notes the CRN edition.

Jay Gordon, the vice president for sales to the Texas company Plano (the partner of MobileIron), says that he is not surprised with the message about change of the CEO of MobileIron as this step is a key component of strategy of the company fighting for preserving of competitiveness in saturated market of technologies of mobile device management.

MobileIron is one of the last niche players of the market of MDM who endures strong consolidation against the background of expansion of business of IT giant, such as VMware, Citrix and SAP, Gordon notes. According to him, those who change MDM solutions, and those who use them for the first time will still be drawn towards the MobileIron platform also.

Change of the CEO of MobileIron it was announced in day of publication of preliminary financial data. In the fourth quarter 2015 revenue of the company made $42-43 million that there is more range predicted earlier in $41-42 million.

Barry Mainz stated that he will make every effort for growth of business and profit what MobileIron aims at. However to achieve high financial results of the company it is difficult as corporate clients even more often refuse software licenses for benefit of subscriptions. In 2015 the stocks MobileIron lost more than 60% of the cost.^[1]

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