
Before joining OpTier, Mr. Rowland was Senior Vice President of Operations for EMEA at Opsware, a Data Center Automation software company (since acquired by HP). Prior to that, he was responsible for building Mercury Interactive's Application Performance Management business unit in EMEA through its high growth phase. Previously, Mr. Rowland held sales and management positions at Hewlett Packard, culminating in founding the software sales organization in the UK. Before moving into field operational roles, Mr. Rowland was a software engineer at British Aerospace.