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Bill AndrewsBill Andrews
President and CEO
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Bill has over 20 years experience in high-tech marketing and has led numerous teams in high-growth companies. Most recently, Bill was the vice president of marketing for Pedestal Software. Pedestal quickly became a leader in the security auditing space. Pedestal was acquired by Altiris, a public company.

Before joining Pedestal Software, Bill was the senior vice president of marketing and sales for eDial, a developer of Voice over IP (VoIP) software. Prior to eDial, Bill was general manager of Adero's streaming media business unit. Bill came to Adero via Adero's acquisition of StarBurst. At StarBurst, Bill served as vice president of marketing and sales. Bill repositioned the company and guided StarBurst into an industry leadership position with 100 percent annual growth. Bill also held vice president of marketing and vice president of sales positions at Live Vault, Microcom and Bitstream. Earlier in his career, Bill held a series of marketing and sales roles at Data General and Compugraphic. He is a graduate of Fitchburg State College and holds a BS in Industrial Technology.

Dave TherrienDave Therrien
Chief Technical Officer and Founder
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Dave has over 24 years of experience in high technology and data storage. Prior to ExaGrid Systems, Dave was the VP of Software Development at Storage Networks. Prior to Storage Networks, Dave was with HighGround Systems where he contributed to the success of its Storage Resource Management product. In 1987, Dave was a principal at Epoch Systems Inc, which was acquired by EMC in 1993. While at Epoch Systems, he designed a sophisticated UNIX-based backup and hierarchical storage management product. Dave has written numerous articles on storage networks and has done extensive research in new storage architectures. Dave received his BSEE from Northeastern University.

Paul BernardPaul Bernard
Chief Financial Officer
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Paul brings over 20 years of experience to ExaGrid, where he is responsible for International sales and business development, as well as finance and administrative functions at the corporate level. Most recently, Paul served as CFO of EqualLogic, the second-leading IP SAN solutions vendor to the midrange market, where he helped drive the company to over $100M in sales and profitability in 3 years.

Previously Paul was the vice president of finance and operations and CFO of Pelago Networks, a telecommunications equipment provider. As chief operating officer of Enmed, he led the team that commercialized the company's clinical trial management software, securing its commercial release and initial revenue stream before its eventual merger with a large IT consulting firm. Earlier in his career, Paul served as CFO of Integral Access, a provider of broadband access networking equipment acquired by Telco Systems, and CFO of CareInsite (NASDAQ:CARI), the leading provider of e-health communications technology, which completed a $100 million initial public offering before its subsequent sale to WebMD (NASDAQ:HLTH) for $2 billion.

Paul holds an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Rhode Island.

Nick GanioNick Ganio
Vice President of Sales
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Nick has more than 20 years of experience leading the global direct and channel sales functions at several well-known enterprise and storage networking companies as well as other technological and market leaders.

Nick's experience includes an early sales career at IBM Corporation with a focus on mainframe and minicomputer solutions then Digital Equipment Corporation as a member of the executive team responsible for several domestic and international business units. Later Nick was President of Bell Micro’s Enterprise Storage Division responsible for $1 Billion in annual revenues managing a systems integration division focused on enterprise storage (e.g., EMC, McData, Brocade, CNT) solutions. Nick was also Executive Vice President at MTI Technology Inc, one of EMC's largest Storage Network Integrators. More recently, Nick served as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing at 3Com Corporation where he managed the global direct sales, channel sales and overall corporate marketing function. Nick graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bernard Baruch University in New York City with a double major in Finance and Computer Science. Nick is also fluent in three languages.

Yee-ching ChaoYee-ching Chao
Vice President of Engineering
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Yee-ching Chao brings over 25 years of product development and management experience to ExaGrid. Most recently, Yee-ching was Vice President of Software at Netezza, where he worked closely with Support for fast and effective response to customers as well as drove the development process changes to improve schedule predictability and quality improvements. Prior to Netezza, Yee-ching was Senior Vice President at Charles River Development responsible for all Engineering and QA functions within the company.

Yee-ching’s other industry experience includes senior product development and management positions at Siebel Systems, ATI Research, Digital Equipment Corporation and Sperry (now Unisys).

Yee-ching received his M.S. in Computer Science from The University of Iowa, M.A. in Mathematics from NE Missouri State University, and B.S. in Mathematics from National Tsing-Hua University in Taiwan.

Marc CrespiMarc Crespi
Vice President of Product Management
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Marc brings over 15 years of software and hardware experience in the high technology sector to ExaGrid, where he is part of the team that drives product strategy and execution and is responsible for managing product operations. Prior to joining the company, Marc was director of product management for security management products at Altiris. Marc came to Altiris by way of Altiris' acquisition of Pedestal Software in 2005. While at Pedestal Software, Marc was director of worldwide customer services, where he built and was responsible for the team that performed all pre- and post-sales support of Pedestal's products through a period of significant growth for the company. Prior to Pedestal, Marc held various leadership roles in customer service and product management at eDial, Convergent Networks, and Nortel Networks. He holds a BS from Bentley College.

Carol SchmittCarol Schmitt
Director of Business Development
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Carol has over 20 years of experience in corporate development, alliance partnerships, and technology marketing. As director of business development at ExaGrid, she is responsible for developing relationships with technology suppliers, and leveraging new channels, technology alliances and strategic partnerships. Prior to ExaGrid, Carol founded and served as president of The Konocti Group, a provider of corporate development, marketing and strategic relationship resources for startup companies. She was vice president of business development for Bluesocket, a wireless networking and security appliance manufacturer where she forged strategic relationships with companies such as Cisco, HP, Intel, Linksys, RSA, and others in the wireless LAN (WLAN) security marketplace.

Prior to Bluesocket, Carol was vice president of corporate development for content distribution network (CDN) service provider Adero following the company's acquisition of Starburst Software. Earlier in her career, she was vice president of marketing at S2 Systems, a provider of electronic commerce and e-payments software, and held senior-level marketing roles at Sterling Commerce, a leader in electronic commerce and e-business solutions. She is a graduate of Iowa State University and an active speaker at industry conferences, and is on the Board of Directors for the Los Gatos Education Foundation.

Michael PeabodyMichael Peabody
Director of Services
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Michael has 25 years of experience in Engineering, Operations and Customer Service. Prior to ExaGrid Systems, Michael was VP of Customer Service at HighGround Systems. HighGround produced a Storage Resource Management product. HighGround was acquired by Sun Microsystems. Before coming to HighGround, Michael managed EMC's Customer Service Open Systems Software group. Michael came to EMC, via its acquisition of Epoch Systems. At Epoch Systems Michael held a number of management positions in Operations, Customer Service and Engineering. Earlier in his career, Michael worked for Bytex Corporation where he held a number of lead positions in Operations, and Engineering. Michael received a BSEE from University of Lowell and an MBA from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Wayne St. AmandWayne St. Amand
Director of Marketing
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Wayne brings more than 14 years of technology marketing experience to ExaGrid where he is responsible for the company's demand generation and awareness building efforts. Most recently, Wayne was the director of marketing for BatteryCorp, Inc., a provider of industrial UPS systems and services to the telecommunications and IT markets. Before BatteryCorp, Wayne ran Electronic Vaulting product marketing for Iron Mountain's Digital division. Prior to Iron Mountain, he managed product marketing as well as corporate communications activities for Connected Corporation, a provider of PC data protection services and software, which was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2004. Before Connected, Wayne managed global corporate communications for SilverStream Software, a public company acquired by Novell in 2002. Earlier in his career, Wayne executed successful communications campaigns for a number of well-known technology companies including HP, Motorola and Texas Instruments, while working for several of the Boston area's most influential public relations and marketing services firms. Wayne holds a BS in Communications from Boston University's College of Communication.

 

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