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Canada : Pure Storage Expands Executive Management Team with Veteran Industry Talent [TendersInfo (India)]
[January 16, 2013]

Canada : Pure Storage Expands Executive Management Team with Veteran Industry Talent [TendersInfo (India)]


(TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Pure Storage, the all-flash enterprise storage array company, today announced two key appointments to its executive management team. David Hatfield has joined as President, and Christopher Zang as its Vice President of Support. Both are experienced executives with deep domain expertise in enterprise information technologies and markets. The news comes on the heels of a string of recent successes for Pure Storage, including closing of a $40 million Series D funding round and the delivery of several key advancements to its flagship product: the award-winning FlashArray. In their new roles, Hatfield and Zang will support the company as it executes an aggressive go-to-market strategy, which includes expansion into international markets in 2013.



With 23 years of experience building high performance global sales, marketing and product delivery teams, Hatfield has held leadership roles at Akamai Technologies, VERITAS Software, Symantec, Limelight Networks and others. Prior to Pure Storage, Hatfield served as President of SaaS and EVP of Global Sales, Marketing and Services at Limelight Networks. He joined Limelight Networks when it was a small, privately held company and helped build the customer operations and strong global channel to deliver its distributed caching, cloud storage and application acceleration solutions to Global 2000 enterprises and governments. He led the company to over 800% growth during his tenure, propelling the company into its successful IPO. Similarly, Hatfield joined Akamai Technologies before its IPO. While there, he was promoted to lead North American Sales and played a key role in scaling the organization from four customers and $400,000 to nearly 1,400 customers and $160 million in revenue in less than three years. Hatfield developed his storage industry expertise at VERITAS and later Symantec, following one of the largest enterprise software mergers in history. At VERITAS, he led the #1 sales organization into record year over year revenue growth. He was then promoted to Group Vice President of Sales at Symantec, following the acquisition, where he led an extended organization of nearly 1,000 employees, growing revenues from $600 million to $750 million.

"Pure Storage's engineering and product teams have built the most innovative enterprise storage product in decades, and with incredible early adoption across the mid market, large enterprises and state and local government, now is the right time to rapidly scale our business to meet the needs of the marketplace," said Hatfield. "I'm honored to be joining a talented team that is committed to delivering the best customer and partner experience in the industry. Together with our growing global channel ecosystem, we will continue to lead the shift of production storage from disk to all-flash, and maximize the value of the FlashArray for our customers and shareholders." (c) 2013 Euclid Infotech Pvt. Ltd. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company

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