Mark Spowart Co-Founder and CEO, Zadara Storage

Formerly at legendary storage companies Memorex Telex, a big name in IBM-compatible HDDs, and then NAS forerunner Auspex Systems, Mark Spowart then joined ATL Products, Quantum and QLogic to become president of storage virtualization company StoreAge Networking Technologies, sold in 2006 for $50 million to LSI where he became VP, software and solutions business line.

 Spowart co-founded last March Zadara Storage Ltd., an Israeli start-up currently in stealth mode where he holds the position of CEO. Other known co-founder is CTO Nelson Nahum, also coming from StoreAge and LSI.

Yoav Issia, software engineer of the start-up, was also formerly at LSI as principal software engineer after working at IBM Haifa Research Lab and VMLabs.

Zadara’s chairman Robi Hartman was chairman and CEO of IIS as well as chairman of StoreAge.

The name Zadara comes from the combination of letters of the Hebrew date ‘Z Adar Alef’. This was the date that the company was created.

The start-up, apparently located in Orange County, CA and in Haifa, Israel, seems to be involved in storage software system for cloud computing environment.