Vic Mahadevan Board’s Director, Gnodal

Gnodal Limited, in high performance datacenter networking, announced that Vic Mahadevan has joined the Gnodal Board of directors.

The appointment adds a seat to the board, bringing the total number of directors to eight including industry veterans from enterprise IT companies such as Juniper, Alcatel, Sun, Pivot3, Quadrics and more.

Mahadevan, was most recently the chief strategy officer at NetApp, where he was responsible for leading NetApp’s business strategy and identifying additional market and product opportunities to fuel growth. He led the company’s strategic planning and business development activities worldwide and reported to Tom Georgens, president and CEO of NetApp. Vic was also responsible for driving strategic planning processes, managing acquisitions, and supporting NetApp’s strategic alliances and partnership teams.

Vic, who also held executive management positions with BMC, Compaq and LSI, joins the Gnodal board as the company launches its GS-Series high density, low latency data center switches in the US and worldwide into financial, scientific and energy vertical markets.

He holds an MBA in Marketing and MS in Engineering from the University of Iowa as well a degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology.

"Gnodal is uniquely positioned to respond to the ever-increasing demand for higher performance switching in today’s private-hybrid cloud and enterprise data centers," said Mahadevan. "Gnodal switches, as the foundation of a new era in friction-free networking, will revolutionize the next wave of data center networking with an entirely unique ‘preemptive’ fabric that surpasses the expectations of the most demanding customers."

"We are very excited to welcome Vic to our Board of directors; his many years of experience in technology and business development, combined with high-end enterprise storage and compute solutions, will prove invaluable as we accelerate market acceptance and sales activities," said Bob Fernander, CEO, Gnodal.

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