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WebPros® Appoints Christian Koch as Chief Executive Officer

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Houston, TX – March 8, 2022 – WebPros®, the global leader in hosting automation software, announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Christian Koch as Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately. Koch will succeed Jens Meggers, who stepped down in December of 2021 to pursue other opportunities.  

WebPros companies include hosting management solutions cPanel®, Plesk®, and WHMCS®, which provide a comprehensive suite of solutions and broad capabilities to their expanding set of partners and customers.  

Christian Koch is a seasoned industry leader with over 20+ years of experience in executive roles, most recently with GoDaddy EMEA and Host Europe. As Vice President of Partners Brands at GoDaddy, Koch led the company’s partner portfolio of acquired hosting and product brands, including Media Temple and Sucuri in the US, Domain Factory, Host Europe, Heart Internet, and TsoHost in Europe, bringing together strong tech teams fostering collaboration and innovation. Christian prides himself in helping customers’ businesses thrive by providing the tools and insight to transform their ideas and personal initiatives into business success.  

“Christian Koch is a perfect fit to lead WebPros to greater growth enabled by his deep understanding of our business partners and customers,” said Mark Templeton, former Citrix CEO, and WebPros Board Chairman. “We are excited by his vision for the company, inspired by his extensive accomplishments in the web hosting industry. His broad executive experience makes him the perfect leader to drive value for our employees, customers, and shareholders.”  

“I could not be more excited to be joining WebPros. It is a privilege and an honor to lead such an important, world-class, and diverse organization,” stated Koch. “WebPros group of companies is a unique organization that has grown significantly in its market. This year we are focused on supercharging our efforts to bring even more value to our customers by improving operations, and taking the organization, our partnerships, and our product portfolio to the next level.” 

Most recently, Koch served as Vice President of Partners Brands of GoDaddy. Koch joined GoDaddy with their HEG acquisition – GoDaddy’s most significant transaction to date – which added thousands of new employees in EMEA to the GoDaddy family.  

Previously, Koch was the Chief People Officer of GoDaddy EMEA, where he was responsible for helping individuals embrace the GoDaddy culture and achieve the company’s vision and mission. He was accountable for encouraging people to join forces across teams and groups to break down barriers, build new markets, and drive to create uncommon outcomes for their customers.  

Koch holds an MBA and PhD from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management and a Master of Laws (LLM) from the University of Würzburg. 

As the world’s top internet infrastructure industry event, CloudFest helps set the tone for our industry. A who’s who of partners, leaders, consumers, end users, and executives gather in Europa Park, Germany, for presentations, discussions, product launches and demos, face-to-face meetings, and so much more.

We appreciate the opportunity that CloudFest provides us to not only showcase the flagship brands of our ecosystem (cPanel, Plesk, and WHMCS), but also connect with our partners and colleagues. We had an amazing time meeting one-on-one and attending the myriad of presentations, keynotes, and panels.

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Our very own CTO of Cloud Platform and Incubation Projects, Jan Loeffler, kicked things off with his keynote presentation “WordPress by the Numbers.”

This guide to the galaxy of WordPress revealed there are over two billion hostnames worldwide, over 717 million of which are active within the WebPros domain database, and over 80 million of those hostnames are running WordPress as its primary CMS.

Jan went on to reveal some of our research, including that 60% of websites are built by web age

ncies and web professionals, and that over 80% of agencies resell hosting. It was also shared that 1 out of every 3 WordPress websites on the internet are powered by a WebPros control panel, either cPanel or Plesk.

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WebPros Product Managers Adam Wien and Andrey Kugaevskiy presented “WordPress & WebPros: Elevating UX & Fortifying Security in the WordPress Universe.”

This served as the official launch of our two new WordPress-centric products: WP Guardian and WP Squared. Andrey and Adam led the audience through how to leverage these products to deliver top-notch management of WordPress site with WP Squared and industry-leading protection of WordPress websites with WP Guardian.

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“The Influence of AI in Hosting: Expanding Your Revenue Horizons” was also presented by Jan Loeffler.

By bridging the gap between his own grandfather’s local winery 30 years ago and today’s eCommerce-centric global storefront, Jan led the captive audience into the modern world of AI-driven solutions and how to leverage these solutions for smarter resource allocation, predictive maintenance, enhanced security, and overall pushing the boundaries of what is possible in the cloud and hosting market in general.

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Hendrik Koehler, Director of Product Management of Sitejet, presented a masterclass entitled “Sitejet Builder for cPanel and Plesk: Unlocking Profit Potential.” By framing the dramatically changing hosting market against the growth of SaaS providers alongside WordPress, Hendrick presented Sitejet Builder as the user-friendly, feature-packed, and overall powerful tool that it is.

With its inclusion within both cPanel and Plesk, Hendrick illustrated exactly how Sitejet Builder enables users to launch optimized websites and stay competitive in an increasingly aggressive and expanding space.

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CloudFest is always a whirlwind event, filled with fruitful meetings, interesting and compelling presentations, discussions, product demonstrations, as well as the spontaneous interactions and overall unexpectedness we’ve come to appreciate that all coalesce into CloudFest being the outstanding event that it is.

Of course we’ll be returning to Europa Park again in 2025, but first: June 5-8, 2024, is CloudFest USA in Austin, Texas; we’ll see you there, pard’ner!