Hyland names John Newton as Chief Innovation Strategist

Hyland, the pioneer of Content Innovation Cloud™, today names John Newton as the company’s Chief Innovation Strategist. Newton, who co-founded Documentum and Alfresco, brings 35 years of content management experience and will collaborate with the Hyland leadership team to advance the company’s AI, cloud and open-source innovations. He will also act as a champion for Hyland’s future-looking strategies as the company redefines the content management market.

“As we advance our goal to radically grow the value organizations can extract from their unstructured content and enterprise data, John’s visionary experience will be an invaluable asset to Hyland,” said Jitesh S. Ghai, CEO of Hyland. “His alignment with Hyland and our vision to drive intelligent automation at scale makes him the ideal partner for how we will continue to redefine the market and deliver exponentially more value to our customers.”

Newton added, “Hyland isn’t just responding to change — it’s setting the pace. Their critical advantage as an industry leader in content management and open-source technology, especially as this becomes increasingly influential in AI development, is what enterprise customers need today — and exactly why I was drawn to this opportunity. I'm excited to actively collaborate with Jitesh, one of the most visionary CEOs in enterprise software, and the talented Hyland team to accelerate this next evolution of content management.”

Newton will keynote the DevCon track at CommunityLIVE 2025, Hyland’s annual conference for developers, architects, and technical professionals focused on open-source and Hyland's leading-edge technologies. Details and registration are available at CommunityLIVE.com.

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