Ron Martin has joined
Groupize as the meetings technology provider's CEO. He replaces co-founder
Charles de Gaspe Beaubien in the role. De Gaspe Beaubien will move over to lead the
company's customer success team and will remain on the board of directors.
Groupize also added Hugh Jones to the board roster as executive chairman.
Martin's prior roles
include CEO of online payment platform Paysafe. He also led a software and Saas
incubator team as general manager of Altisource PLC and was an entrepreneur in
residence at Bain Capital.
Jones has served as
president and CEO of Travelocity and president of Sabre Airlines Solutions. He also
sits on the board of directors for Travelport and Gogo In Flight.
The new appointments coincide
with big changes for Groupize. The company launched
Groupize 3.0 in early March, a platform extension for larger, more complex
meetings. The timing was rough, just as governments were shutting down large gatherings
and enforcing lockdown measures as a brace against the coronavirus spread.
Even so, Groupize sees value
in its range. New leadership underscored Groupize's roots in smaller, simple
meetings as an advantage for coming out of the crisis and growing with the customer
through recovery.
"Groupize's core
value proposition is strongly resonating with our target customers as the
impact of Covid-19 and other forces re-prioritize their buying requirements,"
Martin said. "Our next-generation
technology is designed for enterprise wide adoption [to drive] savings,
efficiencies and compliance with company policy all while maintaining flexible
workflows. It is the right solution at the right time."