Rackspace has replaced CEO Joe Eazor, who held the post for less than two years, and brought in a transportation executive to lead the cloud computing company.

Kevin Jones most recently served as CEO of MV Transportation, the country’s largest privately owned transportation contracting company.

“He has an outstanding track record of leading and transforming businesses by inspiring organizations to increase revenue, profitability, market share, customer satisfaction and employee engagement,” David Sambur, senior partner at Apollo Global Management and chairman of Rackspace’s board of directors, said in a news release.

Under Jones’ leadership, Dallas-based MV reached the highest revenue and second-highest profit results in the company’s 44-year history.

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Rackspace declined a request to interview Jones, who also worked at DXC Technology, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Dell, Hewlett Packard and Electronic Data Systems.

The shake-up comes less than two years after Eazor took the helm at Windcrest-based Rackspace. He was previously the CEO of EarthLink Holdings Corp. and replaced Taylor Rhodes, who announced that he was leaving Rackspace about six months after the company was acquired by Apollo in 2016.

Eazor led Rackspace through three acquisitions, developed a strong leadership team and “instilled financial and operational disciplines that will help the company scale into the future,” Sambur said.

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This year is a “critical” one for Rackspace, which is “off to a strong start,” Sambur added.

“The company is financially stronger than ever and on track in achieving its near- and long-term goals,” he said.

Rackspace’s leadership has undergone a series of changes in recent years, with several executives departing after Apollo’s takeover. They have since been replaced, and Rackspace has brought in other new leaders, including a new chief marketing officer.

The company cut nearly 200 jobs across its workforce in February after also slashing jobs in February 2017 and February 2018.

Last month, Rackspace rolled out its new branding, including a new logo with fresh colors and a new tagline. The overhaul is intended to reflect Rackspace’s “hyperfocus on accelerating the value of the cloud,” Chief Marketing Officer Mark Bunting said at the time.

The company “is definitely in the midst of a transition period as it tries to reposition itself,” said Philbert Shih, managing director of Toronto-based Structure Research, a consulting company.

The information technology and cloud services industry is undergoing a shift, said Shih, who followed Rackspace as an analyst. It’s moving away from the traditional infrastructure Rackspace was built on and toward Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft Azure platforms, he said.

That infrastructure is still important to many of Rackspace’s clients, but the company’s rebranding efforts and cloud services reflect a change in direction, he said.

“It’s all about the public cloud,” Shih said, referring to service providers such as AWS.

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