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Philip E. Soran has served as our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since co-founding Compellent in March 2002. From July 1995 to August 2001, Mr. Soran served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Xiotech Corporation, or Xiotech, a storage area networking company, which Mr. Soran co-founded in July 1995. Xiotech was acquired by Seagate Technology, or Seagate, a disk drive manufacturer, in January 2000. From October 1992 to April 1995, Mr. Soran served as Executive Vice President of Prodea Software Corporation, a data warehousing software company. From 1982 to 1992, Mr. Soran also held a variety of management, sales, marketing and technical positions with IBM. Mr. Soran received a B.A. in Education from the University of Northern Colorado.
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John P. Guider has served as our Chief Operating Officer and a member of our board of directors since co-founding Compellent in March 2002. From July 1995 to August 2001, Mr. Guider served as Chief Operating Officer of Xiotech, which Mr. Guider co-founded in July 1995. Xiotech was acquired by Seagate in January 2000. From 1987 to 1995, Mr. Guider served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Product Development of Tricord Systems, a high performance server company, which Mr. Guider co-founded in 1987. From December 1982 to January 1987, Mr. Guider served as Director of Hardware Development at Star Technologies, a scientific computer company, and held various management and technical positions with Sperry Corporation, a mainframe systems company. Mr. Guider received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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Lawrence E. Aszmann has served as our Chief Technology Officer and Secretary since co-founding Compellent in March 2002. Mr. Aszmann was a member of our board of directors from March 2002 through June 2003. From July 1995 to August 2001, Mr. Aszmann served as Chief Technology Officer of Xiotech, which Mr. Aszmann co-founded in July 1995. Xiotech was acquired by Seagate in January 2000. From July 1988 to August 1995, Mr. Aszmann served as Director of Intelligent Input/Output Subsystems at Tricord Systems. From December 1981 to June 1988, Mr. Aszmann served as Chief Software Architect of Star Technologies, and Mr. Aszmann previously held various storage-related technology positions with Technalysis Corporation, a consulting company, and Control Data Corporation, a mainframe manufacturing company.
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John R. Judd has served as our Chief Financial Officer since June 2006. From October 2003 to July 2006, Mr. Judd served as Chief Financial Officer of ATS Medical, Inc., a medical device manufacturer. From June 2000 to October 2003, Mr. Judd served as Controller of American Medical Systems Holdings, Inc., a medical device manufacturer. From 1997 to 1999, Mr. Judd served as Chief Financial Officer of the Autoglass Division of Apogee Enterprises, Inc., a glass technology company. Mr. Judd received a B.A. and an M.B.A. from the University of St. Thomas.
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Dennis R. Johnson has served as our Executive Vice President, since April 2003. From May 2002 to April 2003, Mr. Johnson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Marix Technologies, Inc., an enterprise software company. From November 1999 to January 2002, Mr. Johnson served as Executive Vice President of Sales for Xiotech. Xiotech was acquired by Seagate in January 2000. From December 1993 to February 1999, Mr. Johnson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of XATA Corporation, a fleet management software company. Mr. Johnson received a B.A. in Sociology from Mankato State University.
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Michael J. Beach has served as our Vice President of Sales Operations since April 2006. From October 2003 to April 2006, he served as our Director of Sales Operations. From December 2000 to July 2003, Mr. Beach served as Regional Director of Global Services of StorageTek, Inc., a data storage technology company. From January 2000 to December 2000, Mr. Beach served as Vice President of Technology and Operations of Electronic Media Group, Inc., a web development company.
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Brian P. Bell has served as our Vice President of Sales since April 2006. From August 2003 to April 2006, he served as our Director of Business Development. From August 2002 to August 2003, Mr. Bell was with Storage Networks, Inc., an information storage software and services company, as Vice President of Global Services. From July 1999 to August 2002, Mr. Bell served in various positions for Storage Network, Inc. including most recently as Director of Operations. From 1988 to 1999, Mr. Bell served as a commissioned officer in the U.S. Air Force. Mr. Bell received a B.S. in Human Factors from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an M.S. in Human Factors Engineering from the University of Illinois.
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Bruce E. Kornfeld has served as our Vice President of Marketing since January 2006. From March 2003 to October 2005, Mr. Kornfeld served as Director of Worldwide Outbound Marketing for the enterprise business of Dell, Inc., a computer company. From March 2002 to March 2003, Mr. Kornfeld served as Director of Worldwide SMB Marketing for Dell, Inc. From March 2000 to March 2002, Mr. Kornfeld served as Director of Storage Product Marketing for Dell, Inc. From 1990 to 1997, Mr. Kornfeld served in various engineering and product marketing positions at NCR Corporation, an information technology services company. Mr. Kornfeld received a B.S. and M.S. in Engineering and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.
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Marty L. Sanders has served as our Vice President of Technology Services since November 2005. From October 2002 to November 2005, he served as our Director of Business Development. From 1998 to 2002, Mr. Sanders was with Xiotech, most recently as Director of Strategic Technologies. From 1992 to 1998, Mr. Sanders served as Senior Account Manager of Computer Network Technology Corporation, a networking technology products company. Mr. Sanders received an associate of applied science degree in electronics from the DeVry Institute of Technology.
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