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COPAN Systems Invests in its Team for Global Expansion
LONGMONT, Colo. --(Business Wire)-- COPAN Systems, the leader in persistent data storage based upon its intelligent, enterprise-class enhanced MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) platform, today announced a number of executive appointments intended to drive forward COPAN's aggressive growth plans in Europe and Asia.
"We are delighted to enhance our global operations with such a strong team of storage industry experts. We welcome our new hires to COPAN's fast-growing team, and take pride in promoting our high-performing existing staff. These new appointments serve to extend the reach of COPAN's energy-efficient MAID architecture and storage economics strategy," says Mark Ward, president and CEO of COPAN Systems.
Garry Veale has been promoted to Chief Sales Officer, Worldwide Sales and Services, Mick Bradley to Vice President Global Solutions & Services and Martin Firth to Vice President EMEA Sales, all with immediate effect.
New appointments include Tim Pitcher as Vice President, Northern EMEA Sales, Shankar Murukutla as Vice President Technical Services APJ, Carl Elliot as Global Senior Director, Professional Services and Aimee Welstead to Director, International Marketing. Biographical information on all new hires and promotions is available in the notes to editors section below.
Notes to Editors
Garry Veale - promotion to Chief Sales Officer, Worldwide Sales & Services
Garry has over 20 years of senior level sales management experience in the storage and information management industry. He was part of the initial and very successful EMC UK start up team in 1987. Prior to this, Garry held senior level positions in both sales and marketing at International Business Machines, Hitachi Data Systems and Sun Microsytems.
Mick Bradley - promotion to Vice President Global Solutions & Services
Mick's career spans the management and delivery of complex IT strategies and solutions through to the management of large, operations, pre-sales and service delivery organisations, encompassing market analysis and business planning to execution of plan and over achievement of targets. Previously, Mick managed the technology and service business for Pillar Data Systems EMEA, with revenue growth doubling quarter on quarter.
Martin Firth - promotion to Vice President EMEA Sales
Martin joined COPAN Systems in January 2007 as Vice President of UK operations. He will now have responsibility for all sales in the growing EMEA marketplace. Martin joined COPAN Systems from EMC UK, where he was the Enterprise Sales Director for more than five years.
Tim Pitcher - appointed to Vice President, Northern EMEA Sales
Tim has worked in the EMEA storage industry for over 15 years. He most recently worked for Acopia Networks Inc., where he led the International Sales teams across Europe and Asia and helped build a distribution network of VARs and Integrators who drove demand generation and provided implementation services.
Shankar Murukutla - appointed to Vice President Technical Services APJ
With a successful career in the Asia Pacific IT industry that spans over 15 years, including over 10 years in the storage industry, the addition of Shankar is set to bolster COPAN's expansion and push for leadership in the international storage industry.
Carl Elliot - appointed to Global Senior Director, Professional Services
Carl has spent the last two years helping large enterprise clients to define and execute their global storage strategies from a leading independent storage consultancy. Prior to this, Carl worked at EMC where he built the Professional Services organization across EMEA, developed a partner services function, built vertical market propositions and also led a European wide consulting initiative with Accenture.
Aimee Welstead - appointed to Director, International Marketing
Aimee joins COPAN from Ogilvy and Mather, New York, where she was a Partner. She ran a large team - developing relevant, hard working campaigns for American Express's Business Division. Her specialty for the past 10 years has been direct response marketing where measurement and ROI tracking plays a crucial role.
About COPAN Systems
COPAN Systems is the leading provider of intelligent, enterprise-class, enhanced MAID storage solutions that unlock the value of long-term, persistent data. Its energy efficient storage solutions reduce power and cooling costs in the data center with enhanced MAID's unique ability to spin the hard drives only as needed to dramatically conserve power and lengthen the product lifespan. The company is privately held with investments by Austin Ventures, Globespan Capital, Pequot Ventures, and Credit Suisse. COPAN Systems' storage solutions have been shipping since March 2004, with customers spanning the healthcare, financial, government, media, and service provider industries. Solution implementations include backup/restore, archive, and disaster recovery. More information is available at http://www.COPANsys.com
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