Black will take over day-to-day
performance responsibility for operations, as well as sales and
marketing functions and employee development. Continuity and development
of key vendor and partner relationships, such as with data center
developers Digital Realty Trust and PowerLoft, will also fall under Black’s role, as will delivering new managed services products and
building out Horizon’s cloud computing offerings. He will also
immediately lead the process of building a new NOC and selection of new
office space to bring Horizon’s Dallas offices into one location.
Prior to
his work with Horizon, Black founded Horizon’s first acquisition,
Mareechi, the managed services and IT outsourcing provider. He took
Mareechi from start up to an impressive managed services and IT
outsourcing provider with hundreds of clients across three continents.
Before founding Mareechi, he worked with Computer Associates.