Leading provider of billing solutions, Union Street Technologies, has announced the appointment of David McGrath as Head of Cloud. In this newly created role, McGrath will be responsible for defining Union Street’s product strategy for the development of its cloud solutions, including the onward development of aBILLity Cloud, a cloud hosted variant of Union Street’s aBILLity billing platform. Since the introduction of aBILLity Cloud in 2011 it has proven extremely popular, and is currently used by close to half of Union Street’s 450 strong customer base of channel resellers.

McGrath brings with him over ten years’ experience as a Senior Solutions Consultant for one of the channel’s leading providers of managed hosted solutions. He has extensive experience of working with clients operating in regulated industries, and previous experience of working in the telecoms billing industry.

Commenting on McGrath’s appointment, Managing Director, Tony Cook, stated, “David possesses wide ranging, first-hand experience of designing cloud environments and of the reseller model, making him the ideal candidate for this role. When developing our solutions David will be pivotal to ensuring they are cloud friendly, built on best practice, and with a high focus on fault tolerance and data security.”

McGrath said, “As a privately owned and completely independent developer and provider or billing solutions, Union Street delivers the freedom and encouragement to design innovative cloud solutions for the benefit of our clients. It presents me with an exciting career challenge and I look forward to working with clients on cloud solutions that make them more productive and profitable.”