John R. Egan Board’s Directors, Trilio

Trilio Data, Inc., in cloud-native data protection solutions for OpenStack and KVM, announced the appointment of John R. Egan to the company’s board of directors.

He was an early employee, long-time executive, and board member at EMC Corporation and other industry-leading companies, and brings his decades of experience in the storage, data protection and infrastructure enterprise software industry to help drive Trilio’s growth in the market.

“Jack Egan is revered for his work building and growing EMC Corporation’s sales, strategy and marketing initiatives from its earliest days,” said David Safaii, CEO, Trilio. “The adoption of cloud architectures is redefining the foundational infrastructure required to deliver on the benefits of cloud. Jack’s experience positioning disruptive technologies in mature spaces will prove valuable as we see the storage, data protection and infrastructure landscape going through not just an evolution but a revolution. We are delighted to add him to our board of directors.”

Egan currently serves as managing partner of Egan-Managed Capital, a private venture capital fund in Boston, MA. He co-founded Egan-Managed Capital during a sabbatical from EMC Corporation, where he was the EVP sales and marketing for over a decade. There, he directed the development of EMC’s sales force and market positioning and grew its annual sales a thousandfold to $3 billion.

Trilio was founded in 2013 by EMC alumnus Murali Balcha with a mission to deliver better data protection and control to cloud users. Today, it offers an agentless, software-only solution that is native to OpenStack and KVM, providing self-service protection and recovery of entire workloads to the users of each platform. Architected for the cloud, TrilioVault can scale with zero performance degradation.

“I’ve watched Trilio from its earliest days and have been very impressed by the company’s success in moving the cloud-native backup and recovery market forward,” said Egan. “The rapid adoption of open source technologies and cloud native technologies have provided organizations with excellent flexibility and scalability, and Trilio serves a critical role in protecting these growing market. I’m pleased and eager to be a part of Trilio’s growth and success in the coming years.“

Trilio has experienced growth in the past 12 months, tripling their headcount and their customer base. That growth is expected to continue into the foreseeable future as the company expands its product availability while continuing to provide support to its customers.

Egan also serves on the board of directors for other publicly traded and privately held companies, including NetScout Systems, Progress Software, and Verint Systems. He previously served on the board of EMC Corporation and VMware, Inc.