Nancy Hurley President and CEO of Bocada

Bocada, Inc., in data protection management software, announced the promotion of Nancy Hurley to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. Hurley, who has been with Bocada for 18 months, was initially brought in as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development. The company later broadened her role to include managing the sales organization.

“I am excited to be taking on this role as Bocada drives ahead against our recently announced Unified Management Platform strategy,” said Hurley. “The company has a unique opportunity to once again lead the way by creating an intelligent, heterogeneous centralized environment for end-to-end data protection management and analysis.”

“Nancy has spearheaded the new strategic direction for Bocada,” said Greg Gottesman, board member and Managing Director of Madrona Venture Group. “Nancy has that rare combination of being super-strong both strategically and operationally. The board is confident she can execute on what we think will be a fast-growing market segment in data protection.”

Hurley is a seasoned sales and marketing executive, with over 20 years experience in the storage, communications, and networking industries. Prior to joining Bocada, Nancy was Senior Director of Storage Software Marketing for Sun Microsystems. Before Sun, she was a senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) where she provided strategic consulting to vendors in the storage software and infrastructure markets. Prior to ESG, she served as the Worldwide Strategic Planning Manager for Tektronix Communications Test Group and was with Hewlett Packard for 10 years in various senior sales and marketing roles.