Aplus.Net Senior Management Team Expands
Overland Park, Kansas – (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) – October 8, 2008 – Hosting and Internet solutions provider, Aplus.Net, has recruited Chief Financial Officer, Rod Siemers, to its senior executive management roster, with over two decades of top-level leadership experience.
Mr. Siemers’ resume includes international management roles for a Fortune 500 company. Prior to joining Aplus.Net, Mr. Siemers served as CFO for Everest Connections, Inc., a leading communications technology firm where he helped to engineer a dramatic financial turnaround, improving the value of the business by $125 million.
Before his time at Everest, Mr. Siemers spent a decade working in multiple high-level positions for Aquila, Inc., most recently as Vice President of International Finance Management, where he directed corporate financial activities for $1 billion in international gas and electric investments in the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. His roles at Aquila also included seats on various board of directors and directorships that involved the oversight of high-level corporate due diligence, cost effectiveness, business opportunity identification, and contract negotiations, as well as the company’s multimillion-dollar corporate acquisition and merger strategy.
Phillip Spencer, CEO at Aplus.Net noted, ”We’re proud to announce the addition of Rod Siemers to our management team. Rod’s impressive background brings even more talent to an already world-class management team. We’re confident that his leadership and expertise will help usher Aplus.Net into a new era of even greater success for our company.”
Mr. Siemers holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Accounting and Business Administration from the University of Kansas, where he graduated with top honors. He also holds a variety of other high-level professional certifications from the states of Missouri, Kansas, and Colorado.
In August, the company expanded its service offerings, with the WebImage design service, including a full assortment of add-on options. Specially designed to facilitate online business growth, the new features were designed to provide WebImage’s customers with the ability to add fundamental business functionality to their small business-oriented websites. Foremost among these upgrades are a basic shopping cart to support eCommerce functionality and a company logo service to help kick off marketing and branding efforts.
Aplus.Net has provided web services since the Internet’s commercial start in 1995. Aplus.Net is one of the top ten privately held hosting companies in the United States. Specializing in helping small businesses build a customer base via the Internet, Aplus.Net offers award-winning services that include web hosting and design, dedicated servers, online marketing, e-commerce, domain name registration, and much more. Aplus.Net has been awarded many honors for excellence, including the prestigious CNET Editors’ Choice Award, and has been featured in top U.S. business publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, Black Enterprise, and PC Magazine.
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