Panasas Recruits Two Sales Executives

Panasas, Inc. appointed:
Mike Sheppard as global director of channels and alliances, and

Kieran Penwill as sales director for EMEA,

to develop the company’s market share under the leadership of Bret Costelow, who joined the company as EVP of global sales in October, 2021.
 
Thanks to its combination of performance and cost, firm’s technology has seen a sharp increase in demand over the past 18 months. As a result, the company has been investing in expanding its sales teams globally to support its customer base, as an increasing number of business and research applications are being underpinned by Panasas high performance, scale out storage solutions. In addition, the vendor is also gearing up to unveil its new global channel program with exciting new benefits for channel and alliance partners.
 
Before joining Panasas, Sheppard held positions at DDN, Intel and Strongbox, while Penwill, counts Dell, Intel, and Microsoft among his previous employers.
 
“The high-performance storage market is highly competitive, and to succeed you need the best technology and the best team,” said Bret Costelow, EVP of global sales. “Mike and Kieran bring deep experience and strong industry relationships to the team and will be working closely with our partners to deliver outstanding storage solutions throughout Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In addition, our new channel strategy will provide ever-greater support to our partners to enable them to help our customers to rapidly deliver data to meet the demands of the latest gen of highly performant compute systems.”
 
Panasas’ customers are driven by performance; to date the company has helped companies including Airbus, Boeing, Canon, Good Year, McLaren, P&G, STFC, streamline and scale their storage environments to remain agile and competitive.

Penwill, sales director for EMEA, said: “Over the past 30 years, I have built new markets and expanded the footprint of several technology manufacturers by leveraging market trends and emerging opportunities. I look forward to driving Panasas’ market share across the EMEA region.”