Steven Velardi VP WW Sales, Vello Systems

Vello Systems, Inc., in open networks, announced that Steven Velardi has joined Vello as VP for WW sales.

He brings 18 years of industry experience in storage, networking, and virtualization technologies, as well as experience building out worldwide sales teams.

Velardi joins Vello Systems after building performing sales teams at companies including Infineta Systems, Powerfile (acquired by HDS), and Actona Technologies (acquired by Cisco Systems). At Infineta, he was instrumental in developing the company’s go-to-market strategy for its product portfolio, in addition to building a highly sales team that was pivotal to the company’s growth.

He also held various sales and management positions at EMC, Veritas, IPL, Informix and Cisco.

He received his B.S. at University of Rhode Island, College of Business Administration.

“Vello’s SDN solutions have been embraced by key customers and Steve will help us build on that success by developing a WW sales organization addressing the enterprise market through a variety of channels,” stated Karl May, CEO of Vello Systems.

Velardi commented: “Vello has a unique, strategic vision of how SDN technology can be used to meet the needs of enterprises. The company is in a great position to leverage that vision into a WW customer base.”

Vello Systems is pioneering OpenFlow-based solutions that simplify storage and compute management for enterprises and service providers.