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Innovative Hires Top Cloud Exec to Accelerate Growth with AWS

Jeff Valentine brings 20 years of technology experience to fastest growing cloud managed service provider and AWS Premier Partner

ROCHESTER, NY, FEBRUARY 16, 2021 – Innovative Solutions, an Amazon Web Services Premier Consulting Partner, announced today the recent appointment of Jeff Valentine as President and COO. As a leading managed cloud service provider, Innovative is rapidly growing in partnership with customers of Amazon Web Services (AWS) as it enables their digital transformations with a focus on cost optimization, cloud security, and operational excellence. Valentine will drive the scalability of operations to drive unmatched customer experiences for businesses everywhere.

Innovative has been serving the technology needs of businesses for more than 30 years and has experienced exponential growth since 2019 as it has expanded its managed cloud services offering into over 240 cities and 3 countries. Valentine’s passion for growth paired with Innovative’s team of AWS-certified cloud engineers will continue to enable businesses to modernize their operations using the cloud.

Valentine is a seasoned growth leader with over 20 years of experience in starting, growing, and investing in technology companies. Most recently, Valentine spent three years as CTO of one of the leading providers of cloud insights software that accelerates digital transformations. Valentine served as CTO, CPO, CMO, and CEO at various technology companies since the late 1990s.

 

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Innovative believes that every company will become a technology company, and we’re here to help. Recognized as an AWS premier consulting partner, Innovative uses its cloud expertise and technology to help customers move to and manage cloud workloads.  With an army of cloud experts and the Innovative Cloud Runbook utilizing the leading cloud technologies, Innovative gives businesses of every size the confidence to grow in the cloud with Well Architected reviews, cloud migrations, AWS cloud hosting and resale, managed cloud services, application modernization, cloud-native software development, cloud cost optimization, cloud security monitoring, and virtual CIO and CISO consulting.

Justin Copie

Justin Copie, CEO

“Jeff’s background leading several successful technology companies, including three years as a C-level executive at one of our technology partners, provides our team and our customers with the opportunity to rise up like never before.”

Jeff Valentine

Jeff Valentine

“Businesses are realizing that moving more of their operations to the cloud helps them meet their goals, I’m excited because Innovative helps businesses accelerate their digital transformations with our army of cloud experts, technology, and best practices.”

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