• by Ray Schultz , October 8, 2019

Validity, parent company of email delivery firm Return Path, has named Mike Piispanen as Chief Operating Officer and has added global business development and strategic partnership responsibilities to Derek Swaim’s portfolio as executive vice president of corporate development. 

Both executives will help manage Validity’s ongoing expansion, the company says. 

Previously, Piispanen served as chief process and operations officer at Cision Ltd. He also spent 16 years at Nasdaq’s corporate solutions business area.

With hundreds of employees now on board across the globe serving tens of thousands of customers, the firm felt it was “certainly time to build executive muscle focused on operational excellence,” states Validity CEO Mark Briggs.