{"id":10632,"date":"2019-04-02T14:00:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-02T14:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rax-stg-wp-aws.com\/news\/rackspace-appoints-jesse-burros-senior-vice-president-corporate-development\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T11:41:38","slug":"rackspace-appoints-jesse-burros-senior-vice-president-corporate-development","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/news\/rackspace-appoints-jesse-burros-senior-vice-president-corporate-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackspace Appoints Jesse Burros as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO \u2013 <\/em>April 2, 2019 \u2013<\/em><\/strong> Rackspace today announced it has hired Jesse Burros as senior vice president of corporate development. Burros, who brings nearly 15 years of corporate development and investment banking experience, will be responsible for leading the company\u2019s mergers and acquisitions strategy and EXECution, as well as Investor Relations.<\/p>\n

\u201cJesse is a proven leader with a deep understanding of capital markets, M&A and the global IT landscape,\u201d said Louis Alterman, CFO of Rackspace. \u201cAs we push to become the greatest technology services company in the world, we\u2019ll continue to pursue opportunities to help us broaden our expertise and strengthen our solutions portfolio, and we\u2019ll have expanded opportunities to interact with the capital markets. Jesse is the ideal leader to drive these efforts.\u201d Prior to joining Rackspace, Burros established and led the cloud services investment banking practice at BMO Capital Markets.<\/p>\n

While at BMO, Burros successfully advised public and private companies on equity and debt offerings, sales, acquisitions and divestitures worth over $4 billion in transaction volume. Among other notable M&A transactions and initial public offerings, Burros was the exclusive financial advisor to Rackspace and Apollo on the acquisition of TriCore Solutions. Before joining BMO, Jesse held corporate strategy and finance roles with Time Warner, MTV Networks and Jefferies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve worked closely with Rackspace for several years and I\u2019m very bullish about the future of this company,\u201d said Burros. \u201cRackspace is the leader in managed cloud services and given its scale, leadership team, and track record of excellent customer service, I couldn\u2019t be more excited about coming on board to help drive the next phase of the company\u2019s growth. I look forward to exploring new ways to expand our capabilities and global reach, as we work to help customers accelerate the value of the cloud at every phase of their digital transformation journey.\u201d Read more: \u201c5 Questions for Rackspace SVP of Corporate Development Jesse Burros\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

Media Contact<\/strong>
\nBrandon Brunson
\nbrandon.brunson@rackspace.com<\/a>
\n210.312.1357<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SAN ANTONIO \u2013 April 2, 2019 \u2013 Rackspace today announced it has hired Jesse Burros as senior vice president of corporate development. Burros, who brings nearly 15 years of corporate development and investment banking experience, will be responsible for leading the company\u2019s mergers and acquisitions strategy and EXECution, as well as Investor Relations. \u201cJesse is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","headline":"Rackspace Appoints Jesse Burros as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development","seo_title":"Rackspace Appoints Jesse Burros as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development","seo_description":"Rackspace Appoints Jesse Burros as Senior Vice President of Corporate Development","card_image":"","insights_image":"","featured_image":"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/newsroom_images\/18657-featured_image-Rackspace-Website-Image-Newsroom-BRA-TSK-156_0002.jpg","author_name":"paul1231","content_type":"news","video_embeds":"","og_image":"","twitter_image":"","drupal_nid":"18657","drupal_path":"\/newsroom\/rackspace-appoints-jesse-burros-senior-vice-president-corporate-development","drupal_changed":"2021-11-10T18:37:13","footnotes":""},"categories":[208],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10632","news","type-news","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10633,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/10632\/revisions\/10633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rax-prod-wp-aws.com\/en-gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}