Who We Are
25+ years Vice President/Regional Sales Manager/Enterprise Account Executive/Pre-Sales/Engineering/Management experience designing, selling and deploying storage, network and cloud solutions including bare-metal container(Kubernetes), hyper-convergence, storage virtualization, cloud, WAN-optimization, parallel file systems, SAN/NAS, Big Data, End-Point Backup, Cybersecurity(SIEM/XDR/SOC/MSSP) and converged infrastructures.
Customer & Channel focused process-driven technology change agent. Proven hands-on technical leader as an individual contributor and manager with both startup and public company experience. Successfully evangelize new technologies for innovative solutions within Service Providers, Enterprises and Fortune 25->100 companies.
VAR/Channel experience providing succinct and accurate technical elements for datacenter solutions as well as partner-driven vendor technical & sales training.
Track record of over-producing within start-up organizations growing respective lines of business & achieving IPO/Acquisition. Angel/Seed, A-round, B-round, C-round, M&A, IPO and post-acquisition experience with deep understanding of all phases.
Follow/Adhere to: MTTR3 (“MTTR-Cubed”); Drives Potential eco-growth, repeatability, scalability & predictability
1. Mean Time To Revenue
2. Mean Time To Reference
3. Mean Time To Relevance
Exit History/Experience
BBN: BBN Planet; GTE Internetworking; (IPO - Genuity)
Pillar Data Systems: M&A by Oracle (~$550M)
Acopia Networks: M&A by F5 Networks (~$210M)
Terascala: M&A by Cray; Cray M&A by HPE (~$1.4B)
SimpliVity: M&A by HPE ($680M)
Diamanti: (Private; Baremetal Container Platform)
HPE/Ezmeral Container Platform: (AI/ML/DL/RL BU)
DDN/Tintri: (Private; Microservices)
Clients / Vendors / MSPs / MSSPs / SIs / SOCs
CyberCastle.ai (In-Progress… VP Sales/Technology)
Verge.io (Test Drove; Sales Agent)
Avesha.io (K8S Cluster Federation & HPA; Sales Agent)
Vawlt.io (In-Progress… Cloud Orchestration; File/Object)
Zettaset (Acting VP of Sales & Head of Pre-Sales/Alliances; Cybersecurity; Linux Data Security)
CrowdStrike (Test Drove - Falcon)
Sandfly Security (Test Drove)
Infused Innovations (Advisory/Cybersecurity/ Delivery)
CybrosSecurity (MSSP; SOC-aaS; www.cybrossec.com/)
Prov.Net (MSP; DevOps as a Service)
Maximus Data (MSP; BUaaS)
BlueMantis (MSSP/SOC)
Arctiq.ca (VAR/SI; Canada)