Darren Thomas Left Dell
Where he was VP and GM for storage since 2003.
By Jean Jacques Maleval | December 19, 2012 at 3:09 pmNo press release with any congratulation has been published by Dell about that. The information already circulated on the web, but we wait for the official confirmation done by Darren Thomas himself on Linkedin.
He has left his position this month – "to pursue new opportunities", and more probably was fired as financial results of the Dell’s storage business were ugly these last years – of VP and GM storage that he got in August 2003 when he replaced Russ Holt.
There, he was managing five sites worldwide and 1,500 engineering/marketing professionals. During his tenure, Dell stopped its partnership with EMC and acquired five storage start-ups (EqualLogic, Compellent, Ocarina, Exanet and AppAssure).
Before that, he became in 2001 president and CEO of Zambeel, in high-end NAS, a start-up that shuts down in 2003 after running through about $66 million in funding. Previously Thomas was at Compaq for more than a decade finishing as VP of advanced technology and business development for storage business. He left Compaq four months before the HP acquisition.
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