Solace announces new chief marketing and business development officer

Solace, a company which helps enterprises adopt AI by enabling real-time, event-driven data movement across their entire business for the agentic age, announced that Paul Fitzpatrick has joined the company as its new chief marketing and business development officer.

Fitzpatrick brings deep experience in enterprise software go-to-market, having held senior leadership roles, Solace said in a release. He joins Solace from Shopify, where he was the head of global partnerships and programs for over three years, leading the development of the company’s enterprise partner ecosystem, and evolution of global partner programs and education.

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According to Fitzpatrick's LinkedIn, his resume includes a prior stint at Solace as the chief business development officer as well, where he led partnerships, global customer education, field enablement and performance management for four years between 2017 to 2021. Before that, he was the chief marketing officer of Halogen Software, where he led the global marketing function including brand, product marketing, demand generation and more. 

Fitzpatrick also held leadership positions at ResponseTek, IBM, and Cognos. He first began his career as a consultant in Enterprise Canada and KPMG before climbing the ranks. 

Solace's president and CEO Denis King said, “Fitzpatrick brings a wealth of experience and a proven track record of building strong brands and driving growth in the technology sector. His strategic vision and leadership will be instrumental as we continue to expand our global presence and help more organizations capitalize on the transformative potential of data and AI through an event-driven integration strategy."

Meanwhile Fitzpatrick said that he is looking forward to helping further establish Solace as the digital nervous system for the real-time, event-driven agentic world. "Enterprises worldwide are embracing AI into their everyday workflows and processes, and with that comes the critical need to move data in real-time. As a product-led company with a proven reputation in event-driven integration, Solace is uniquely positioned to help companies turn their AI ambitions into reality," he added. 

Currently, Solace has locations across North America and Europe. It also has offices in the APAC region, such as in Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Melbourne and Dubai. 

Over the past two decades, Solace said that it has helped many of the world’s leading companies realize the potential of real-time data, or events, to grow revenue, improve operational efficiencies and deliver optimal customer experiences, as a core technology for leading organisations including global investment banks, retailers, telcos, and manufacturers. Built on a modern event-driven architecture, Solace Platform connects systems, applications, and AI agents with the data they need. Enterprises such as RBC Capital Markets, Heineken, PSA Singapore and Schwarz Group, are some of Solace's clients to name a few. 

At the end of last year, Solace, announced the addition of micro-integrations to its event-driven integration and streaming platform, Solace PubSub+ Platform. The micro-integrations are small, lightweight event-driven integration modules that connect enterprise technologies, including legacy and SaaS applications, messaging services, databases, files, as well as AI agents to an event-driven distribution layer, enabling information exchange in real-time.

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