Clifford currently serves as CEO and Chairman of the Board for Aperture Technologies, Inc., a physical infrastructure management firm. He previously served as president and CEO of Gartner Group, Inc., a leading provider of research and analysis on the global IT industry, where he was responsible for growing annual revenues from a $175 million in 1993 to $780 million in 1999. Under his leadership, Gartner's product line expanded from a single research- based service to include eCommerce research, consulting, events, benchmarking and market data products and services. Additionally, he was instrumental in globalizing Gartner's research impact by establishing technology research operations in Australia, Asia and South America. Before joining Gartner, Clifford served as vice president of information systems development at Automatic Data Processing (ADP).

"GridApp is the first company to address the growing demand for database infrastructure automation -- a market that has been largely untapped until now," said William Clifford. "As IT environments grow more complex and external compliance requirements force enterprises to rethink how they manage their infrastructure, customers are turning to companies like GridApp to automate and control critical database operations. As a Board member, I'm committed to strengthening GridApp's market leadership and expanding the company's presence among enterprise customers."

Maples brings to GridApp over 20 years of experience in high-tech business development and sales for such companies as Sun Microsystems, Cisco Systems, Platform Computing and NetPower, Inc. Most recently at DataSynapse, Maples drove over $4.5M in sales in less than two years, and developed strategic partnerships and cooperative selling activities with IBM, Oracle, Sun, HP and Intel.