Nilesh Patel VP Product Management and Marketing, Overland

Overland Storage, Inc. announced that Nilesh Patel has joined the company as VP of product management and product marketing.

 Reporting to president and CEO Eric Kelly, he is responsible for providing strategic and tactical direction for the portfolio of storage products and new cloud and virtualization strategies, product definition, planning and roadmap development, and product marketing functions.

He joins Overland with more than 20 years of technology, product and strategy leadership with domain experience in storage and system appliances, data management, enterprise software, and cloud and virtual data center infrastructure solutions. Previously, he was VP of global product strategy for Asurion where he drove the product and technology strategy to transform the company to an end-user and thought leadership-oriented organization. During his nine years at NetApp, he directed product management for a portfolio of cloud-centric enterprise storage products and data protection software, and earlier led product management and planning for business units including NAS, object storage, enterprise storage systems, and flash products.

“Nilesh is a respected technology executive with a solid track record of translating technology innovations into customer-relevant and differentiated value propositions,” said Kelly. “With his extensive product management and marketing leadership experience, Nilesh will be instrumental as we evolve into an industry leader that delivers breakthrough data protection, virtualization and cloud offerings.”

Patel holds a M.S. in electrical and computer engineering from Louisiana State University and a B.S. in electronics engineering from Shivaji University in India.