Eric Herzog CMO and SVP Business Development, Violin Memory

Violin Memory, Inc. announced that Eric Herzog has joined te company as CMO and SVP of business development.

He will report to Kevin DeNuccio, president and CEO, Violin Memory.

 He has more than 29 years of experience in the storage solutions, storage hardware, and storage software markets, managing all aspects of marketing and business development in both start-up and Fortune 500 environments. In his new role, he will bring executive and management expertise in storage and storage application acceleration solutions to lead marketing and business development teams. His responsibilities will include overseeing all worldwide product marketing, technical marketing, channel marketing, corporate communications, and global business development.

“Eric Herzog’s extremely successful marketing and business development track record demonstrates his critical role in growing strong companies,” said Kevin DeNuccio, Violin president and CEO. “His broad knowledge and expertise of the storage marketplace will be critical as Violin delivers its next generation of industry-leading flash storage solutions for enterprises.”

“I am extremely enthusiastic about the opportunities at Violin Memory from a market and business perspective,” said Herzog. “Violin Memory’s unique, intelligent, flash application architecture will dramatically reduce cost and complexity while substantially increasing application, workload and storage performance. Violin Memory delivers incredible quantifiable value to any company.”

With the addition of Eric Herzog to its management team, Violin Memory will continue to enhance its marketing and business development capabilities, while delivering solutions that solve critical enterprise storage needs to provide application acceleration, storage efficiency, and unmatched storage and workload performance.

Herzog joins Violin Memory from EMC, where he was most recently senior VP marketing for EMC’s enterprise and mid-range systems division responsible for the VNX, VMAX, and VNXe family of storage solutions. He previously held positions as the VP of business line management and VP marketing for IBM’s storage technology division, where he had P&L responsibility for its more than $300 million OEM RAID and storage subsystems business. During his career, he has also held executive positions in marketing, sales and business development with start-up companies including Tarmin Technologies, Maxtor, Asempra, ArioData Networks, Topio (acquired by Network Appliance), Zambeel, and Streamlogic.

He holds a B.A. degree in history from the University of California, Davis, where he graduated cum laude, studied towards a M.A. degree in Chinese history, and was a member of the Phi Alpha Theta honor society.

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