Greg Mayhew VP of Business Development, Open Source Storage

Open Source Storage LLC (OSS), in enterprise storage solutions, announced that Greg Mayhew has been named VP of business development.

With over 20 years of sales and management experience in the storage vertical, he brings a track record of achievement within start-up organizations. His experience and network in the western region will allows OSS to introduce its product line to new customers.

“Greg Mayhew brings the experience, skills and proven track record we needed in a sales executive,” said Eren Niazi, CEO, OSS. “He understands the enterprise data market, and he’s demonstrated just how capable he is of both winning clients and leading his team members to accomplish the same. Mayhew will be instrumental in guiding OSS through a major growth spurt.”

Before joining OSS, Mayhew was director of sales execution, cloud content and media at MS Sales and Service Group, a private consulting firm for sales organizations. There he secured and developed accounts such as Yahoo!, Netflix, Pandora, Facebook, MSN and others. Prior to that, he was regional VP sales, West Coast, Dell Force 10. His team accounted for over 50% of Force 10 revenue and was the top performing region throughout his five year tenure. Mayhew also built Force 10’s web services vertical from zero to $40 million in revenue within two years.

Over the last 22 years, Mayhew has also held senior sales positions at Pannaway Technologies, Loudloud, EMC Corporation and Cabletron Systems.

He has won over ten sales honors and awards from the companies he has served.

“OSS has the technology and leadership to take the storage market by storm,” said Mayhew. “Niazi and his team have developed storage solutions that can perform under the most demanding conditions at a cost 30% to 40% lower than anything else on the market. There has never been a more promising time to bring this type of technology into the enterprise world.”

Mayhew brings technical proficiency in web and IT operations with expertise specific to data and storage networks.

He began his career in sales after graduating from San Jose State University with a B.S. in Business, Marketing.