Henri Richard Board’s Advisor, Excelero
Was EVP WW Field and customer operations at NetApp during 4 years, after stints at SanDisk, AMD, IBM, Seagate and Conner.
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on July 15, 2020 at 2:18 pmExcelero Ltd. announced that longtime enterprise technology executive and strategist Henri Richard has become a board advisor.
As AI/ML/deep learning and HPC deployments drive demand for newer SDS solutions using NVMe flash, he will assist executive team in uncovering opportunities to accelerate growth.
“Excelero is addressing one of the most pivotal demands in enterprise technology today – building end-to-end, high-performance storage solutions for AI training and analytics workloads at any scale with maximum ROI,” said Richard. “New workloads require new storage, and Excelero’s groundbreaking approaches to Elastic NVMe have widespread appeal. I look forward to helping Excelero find new opportunities for growth.”
“Even with the Covid-19 pandemic, Excelero concluded Q2 2020 over plan, on a path to 400% growth year over year – with similar percentage growth in the number of new customers,” said Lior Gal, CEO and co-founder. “Our 2020 performance to date speaks volumes about the high regard we’ve earned for Excelero’s NVMesh software, which for many marquee customers is the only answer to their demand for performance, agility and scalability. Henri’s over 40 years of global expertise in enterprise computing hardware, software and solutions already have made him immensely valuable in refining our strategic vision for the NVMesh software solution set. We look forward to expanding further and faster with Henri on our team.“
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