Isabelle Guis CMO, Egnyte

Egnyte, Inc., provider offering secure enterprise file services on premises and in the cloud, has appointed Isabelle Guis as CMO, reporting to founder and CEO Vineet Jain.

 With expertise in enterprise storage, cloud enablement and mobility, Guis will oversee Egnyte’s global marketing, go-to-market strategy and operations.

“As we move into the next phase of our growth, it is crucial for Egnyte to have leadership with deep expertise in marketing and selling to enterprise organizations. With Isabelle’s strong background in the enterprise storage and cloud industries, she will help us expand into new markets, both domestically and internationally, with product strategies and go-to-market initiatives that resonate with IT customers and partners,” said Jain.

“I’m thrilled to join Egnyte, a company that uniquely delivers secure enterprise-grade file sync and share services over private, public and hybrid clouds,” said Guis. “Egnyte integrates with industry-leading on-premises storage equipment from EMC, NetApp, and others, as well as with best-in-class cloud storage providers, such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft. This strong ecosystem is imperative to effectively meet the diverse compliance, investment protection and cloud sharing requirements of enterprise customers.”

Guis recently served as EMC’s VP marketing for the public cloud solutions group and enterprise storage division, driving cloud buyer and service provider segmentations, as well as product positioning and go-to-market strategies for the company’s core storage solutions. Prior to that, she served as Big Switch Networks’ VP marketing and was the founding chair of the Open Networking Foundation market education committee to promote software-defined networking . She also held leadership positions at Avaya, Cisco Systems, and Nortel Networks.

She holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Supelec in France and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

She joins the executive team alongside Ian Whiting, president of field operations, who was announced in August 2014.