Rick Ellenberger joins the company as CEO to capitalize on the next evolution of enterprise computing.

Logicworks, a provider of enterprise hosting and cloud computing for high-availability applications and content, yesterday announced that it has hired Rick Ellenberger as CEO. The company states that Ellenberger has been at the forefront of technology revolutions for the last 30 years, and has successfully led companies in telecommunications, data integration and internet broadband. It avers that he has acquired, built and restructured several companies and led some of the best-known technology brands to greater profitability and investment. Its founder Carter Burden, who had been the firm's CEO, will continue in his role as Chairman of Logicworks board of directors.

The company explains that prior to it, Ellenberger was the Chairman and CEO of Cincinnati Bell. Through acquisition and strategic partnerships he created Broadwing Corporation, which was the first all-optical IP backbone network. During his tenure at Broadwing, he helped raise over $1 billion in investment capital and over $400 million in private equity investment. In 2001, Ellenberger was named Smart Executive magazine's Internet Executive of the Year, for leading Broadwing's phenomenal transformation from a one-city telephone company into a nationally-recognized, integrated communications powerhouse.

It further states that prior to Broadwing, Ellenberger was CEO at XL Connect, a technical services company that provided high-end integration services for mainframes and distributed computing architectures. Under Ellenberger's leadership, XL Connect achieved one the most successful initial public offerings of 1996, and was later acquired by Xerox.

"Logicworks has been perfecting the technology and services platform that enterprises rely on to host their most complex, mission-critical applications," said Carter Burden. "The time has come for us to scale our business to meet the potential of that platform, and Rick's a proven expert in capitalizing on intersections of great technologies and promising market opportunities to build great companies. We are truly honored to have him leading the next phase of Logicworks' growth."

"I'm incredibly excited to join Logicworks," said Rick Ellenberger. "I've been fortunate to lead organizations through three major disruptive technological evolutions in my career: First, the dawn of a competitive telecom marketplace; second, the migration from mainframe applications to distributed client-server architectures, and third the construction of global broadband IP infrastructures," said Ellenberger. "That experience will serve me well at Logicworks, which is poised to lead the next great disruptive technology evolution: the complete migration of the complex enterprise applications to fully-hosted public and private cloud environments."

"While some enterprises have experimented with hosted and cloud computing initiatives, few have embraced the trend for their most mission-critical applications," said Burden. "Logicworks is ideally positioned to change that with our exclusive focus on complex multi-server architectures and high-availability database environments. We have earned the reputation as the 'go to hosting partner' for some of the largest media and financial services brands in New York City."

"Carter and the entire team at Logicworks have built a technology and services foundation that rivals what I saw at similar stages at MCI, XLConnect, and Broadwing earlier in my career," said Ellenberger. "Their hard-earned reputation is a clear indication of the growth and success we'll see in the future. I'm proud to have the opportunity to build upon it to bring Logicworks' advanced capabilities to the broader global marketplace."