Warren Mead VP Sales, AutoVirt

AutoVirt, Inc. announced the appointment of Warren Mead to the position of Vice President of Sales.  

As such, Mead will be responsible for building and leading the AutoVirt sales team in the continued development and expansion of the company’s worldwide sales efforts. He will join AutoVirt’s executive management team, reporting directly to Josh Klein, President and CEO.

"I am very happy to be joining AutoVirt at such an important and exciting time for the company and the market it serves. With AutoVirt’s recent v3.6 release, we are now positioned as the leader in software based, data migration and Global Namespace solutions. With the addition of our data assessment policy, our partners now have the ability to help their customers understand their file environments, accurately scope projects and discover challenges and opportunities prior to any migrations," said Mead. "The storage channel community has been waiting for this – an efficient, easy-to-manage, transparent and cost effective solution for data migration. Combining our migration solution with a powerful Global Namespace allows our partners the ability to solve their customers unstructured data growth problems."

"We are delighted to have an executive with Warren’s extensive experience and proven track-record join our team at such a critical juncture in the company’s evolution," said AutoVirt CEO, Josh Klein. "Warren’s depth of experience in building channel sales programs that respond directly to channel partner needs will be critical in ensuring the continued success of AutoVirt with both our Value Added Reseller (VAR) and OEM partners."

AutoVirt also announced also that Mead has been named to Computer Reseller News‘  ‘100 People You Don’t Know, But Should.’ The listing serves as a roster of those that are "building and running channel programs, designing special incentives, educating and training solution providers and evangelizing hot technology. They are the unsung heroes who put in the elbow grease to make channel partnerships work." Mead was singled out for his, "Bringing new online training and certification programs to partners and investing in the tools and support needed to help boost partner profitability, all while tripling AutoVirt’s channel team within the past two months."

 Warren Mead, Vice President of Sales, Bio
He is a sales executive with over 17 years of experience focusing on early stage, venture-backed technology companies. Most recently, Mead was the Vice President of North American Sales for Akorri Networks. He led sales turn around for Akorri which resulted in a profitable acquisition by Network Appliance in February 2011. He implemented a channel sales program, rebuilt the sales team and developed a sales process which resulted in a 350% increase in Akorri’s quarterly revenues.

Prior to joining Akorri, Mead was the National Sales Director at Virtual Iron Software. As the initial sales hire at Virtual Iron, He helped build and launch a sales model that drove over 3,000 customers and led to the acquisition by Oracle in June 2009. Prior to joining Virtual Iron, He spent six years building SpeechWorks (now Nuance) from its first customers to a $160M public company with the 12th most successful IPO of 2000.

Mead has also held sales positions at Open Development Corporation and Vicorp Interactive Systems, both early stage software companies that were acquired.

He attended Marist College (Poughkeepsie, NY) and Leeds University (Leeds, England).