Geoff Barrall Director of Board at Nexsan

Nexsan Technologies announced that Dr. Geoff Barrall, a well-recognized pioneer in the storage industry, has joined the Nexsan Board of Directors.

Dr. Barrall currently serves as CEO of Data Robotics, maker of the world’s first storage robot, a company he founded in 2005. Barrall has founded five companies, including BlueArc Corporation, a supplier of enterprise Network Attached Storage (NAS), as well as several IT and consulting services firms.

With more than a dozen storage-related patents to his credit, Dr. Barrall brings rich technology expertise and deep hands-on executive-level operational experience to Nexsan. In addition to his roles at Data Robotics and BlueArc, he served on the board of directors of Tacit Networks and was an executive consultant to the senior team at Brocade Communications. His storage experience also includes sitting on the boards of advisors of Data Domain and NeoPath.

“Geoff brings a tremendous amount of insight and industry experience to the Nexsan board,” commented Philip Black, Nexsan’s president and CEO. “Geoff is an innovative technologist and brings valuable management, sales and marketing expertise to our diverse team. These attributes will be tremendous assets to Nexsan as we continue to drive storage innovations in energy-efficient disk storage systems.”