REAN Cloud adds Senior Cloud, Security, & Compliance Experts to its Team

Princeton, N.J., May 13, 2015 (Newswire.com) - REAN Cloud Solutions, the cloud-native company focused on providing Managed Services, Professional Services, and cloud products to highly-regulated customers in the Financial Services, Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Government verticals, is pleased to add two Life Sciences industry veterans to the team.

Sean Finnerty Joins REAN Cloud

We are pleased to announce that Sean Finnerty has joined REAN Cloud as an Executive Director, leading the Health & Life Sciences business, along with driving company-wide Information Security, Compliance, and Quality initiatives to strengthen REAN Cloud’s position in regulated markets.

Prior to joining REAN Cloud, Sean led the Cloud Services group at Merck & Co., Inc. (known as Merck Sharp & Dohme outside the United States and Canada), and is recognized within the industry for introducing disruptive, cutting-edge cloud thinking into the highly regulated Life Sciences computing landscape. Through close partnerships with Information Security, Global Infrastructure, Compliance, and Quality organizations, Sean and his team were able to quickly establish and advance the cloud program, enabling numerous business outcomes and greatly compressing time to value with solutions built on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

On joining REAN Cloud, Sean says, “I am excited to apply my years of ITIL, security, and compliance experience to enable managed clouds for Enterprise Life Sciences customers and other regulated markets.  Cloud computing provides new and powerful ways for researchers to solve human health problems, and it is rewarding to play a role in enabling these new capabilities.”

Over the course of Sean’s 14 year career at Merck, he held positions of increasing responsibility, starting in the Global Infrastructure organization managing Active Directory and the Windows Server platform, then moving on to implement and manage a Global Identity Management and Provisioning system fully validated to comply with FDA 21 CFR Part 11 and GxP requirements, before running the Information Security Incident, Threat, and Vulnerability Management team, and finally leading Cloud Services.  Sean’s ability to understand complex technical concepts and translate them into fully compliant, business-enabling capabilities has served him well throughout his career.

Sean currently maintains his CISSP certification and attended Rutgers College in New Brunswick, NJ.  Sean has served as a member of the Amazon Web Services Customer Advisory Board.

Steve Toback Joins REAN Cloud

We are also pleased to announce that Steve Toback has joined REAN Cloud as a Principal, Cloud Architect.

Prior to joining REAN Cloud, Steve led the Enterprise Cloud Architecture team at Merck. Over the course of his 12 year career, Steve led a number of innovative  solutions, starting in the Enterprise Web Infrastructure organization where he led the development of the web farm automation, auto-scaling, and self-service management platform, which was also shared with the Apache open source community.  After leaving the web infrastructure organization, Steve joined the Information Security Engineering team, where he led the development of services to protect corporate data and intellectual property.

Steve currently maintains his CISSP certification and holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.  Steve has also served as a member of the Amazon Web Services Customer Advisory Board.

“Sean Finnerty and Steve Toback are thought leaders in applying traditional IT infrastructure management  (ITIL) and security (HITRUST) best practices to modern hybrid cloud infrastructures,”said Sri Vasireddy, Managing Partner, REAN Cloud. “They have collaborated for over five years on the implementation of disruptive IT service delivery models and innovative solutions that meet compliance and validation requirements. This bias for action enables business success, while very effectively managing enterprise information security, privacy, and operational risk. Their experience will be extremely valuable to the discerning medium and large enterprises that are turning to REAN Cloud as the premier global Managed Service Provider for AWS managed cloud environments.”

About REAN Cloud, LLC

REAN Cloud is a Cloud Solutions provider, delivering custom cloud solutions as well as acting as one-stop shop for Managed Cloud Solutions (MCS) to help organizations become agile and productive quickly.  We build and manage platforms for customers on Amazon Web Services and combine with REAN’s custom solutions to help our clients innovate into the era of one-click IT applications.  Our turnkey solutions empower customers and reduce time to market with a monthly subscription model.  Visit us at REANCloud.com to learn more about our solutions.