Global Network as a Service (NaaS) provider Megaport has appointed Jim Brinksma as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) to its leadership team. Megaport’s worldwide technology and engineering organizations will be led by Mr. Brinksma, who will also be in charge of the company’s innovation plan.
Jim Brinksma has 20 years of expertise in business IT, telecommunications, financial services, and blockchain. Brinksma was most recently the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of InnovoEdge, which was bought by Megaport in 2021. He worked at Ciena BluePlanet and Goldman Sachs before joining Megaport as a technology leader. Mr. Brinksma also served in the US Navy for almost seven years and holds a PhD from the University of Maryland.
“I am thrilled to take the next step with Megaport in our journey as an established leader and innovator in the NaaS market,” said Jim Brinksma. “Megaport has revolutionized the way businesses connect, and I’m excited to continue working with our global teams to develop solutions that will further transform how enterprises use the cloud and fundamentally transform their IT architectures.”
The Launch of Megaport ONE
Based in New Jersey, USA, Brinksma will report to Megaport’s CEO, Vincent English.
“We are excited to bring Jim’s deep technological expertise and leadership to Megaport’s global technology and engineering organizations,” said Vincent English, CEO of Megaport. “Jim was integral to the development and launch of Megaport ONE, our white-label, multi-tenant SaaS platform that enables service discovery and provisioning through Megaport’s leading Network as a Service platform. We’re looking forward to Jim bringing his considerable knowledge of cloud, applications, and networking and his track record of innovation to Megaport and to our industry.”
Megaport is a pioneer in the field of Network as a Service (NaaS). The company’s worldwide Software Defined Network (SDN) would enable organizations to quickly connect their network to services via an intuitive UI or an open API. Megaport provides flexible networking features that would save operational costs and accelerate time to market. Megaport works with the world’s major data center operators, systems integrators, and managed service providers (MSPs), as well as the world’s top cloud service providers, such as AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.
