Mark Peters
Enterprise Strategy Group
Mark is an analyst at ESG, focused on storage systems, as well as on the (re)emerging challenges of power, cooling and space efficiencies throughout data centers. Mark’s 20+ years of experience in IT have always emphasized the storage business. Prior to his current role as an ESG analyst, Mark ran his own business consulting on corporate communications, but still focused on the storage and IT worlds. This was preceded by a varied career in high-tech commerce, working at Xerox, Memorex-Telex, StorageTek and Sun Microsystems, as well as at a software startup; and covering senior management roles in sales, marketing, product management, business development and customer intimacy, both in the US and internationally. British by birth, and with a Masters degree from Oxford University, he has been based in Colorado since 1997. |
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Andrew Reichman
Forrester Research
As Senior Analyst for Forrester Research, Andrew Reichman's focus is on data storage systems, networking, and management software, as well as the business processes required for effective storage management. He pays special attention to cost and business intelligence issues related to complex storage environments, working to enable IT operations groups to maximize operational and financial efficiency. |
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Dave Russell
Gartner, Inc.
Dave Russell is a vice president at Gartner Research. His research specialty is storage management software with a focus on data recovery, including data deduplication, virtual tape libraries (VTL), continuous data protection (CDP) and storage resource management (SRM). He also covers information life cycle management (ILM). In addition, Mr. Russell covers both distributed and mainframe storage management software. |
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Phil Soran
Compellent Technologies, Inc.
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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Larry Aszmann
Compellent Technologies, Inc.
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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Brian Bell
Compellent Technologies, Inc.
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 Kornfeld
Compellent Technologies, Inc.
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 Sanders
Compellent Technologies, Inc.
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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