David Savage, VP of Americas Sales, Scality

Scality, Inc. filled three VP in USA.

David Savage, who joins this month, will spearhead the Americas sales organisation, which includes all US-based account executives, sales development representatives and sales engineers, and will drive go-to-market strategy for the region across all sales functions, including strategic alliances, professional services, and support.

Michelle Rockler, who joined in July, heads the company’s global strategic alliances organisation, which includes partnerships with Cisco, Dell, and HPE.

Wally MacDermid, who joined in June, leads the company’s cloud-focused business development efforts as it continues to inspire a new multi-cloud world with its recently-announced Scality Zenko Multi-Cloud Controller.
 
“Our customer experience starts with our customer-facing teams and technology ecosystems as we solve significant storage problems for our customers with focus on petabyte-scale systems for large enterprise and service providers,” said Erwan Menard, president and COO, Scality. “David Savage’s and Michelle Rockler’s experience is perfectly tailored to our aggressive expansion plans across all industry segments, including cloud service providers, telco/cable, IoT, financial services, healthcare, media and entertainment, industries with heavy R&D workloads, and government agencies.”
 
David Savage made a name for himself most recently at NetScout, where he served as VP sales and business development for its cloud, SaaS, and managed services business. Prior to that, he held executive sales roles at Danaher, VMware, EMC, Micromuse, and AT&T. He brings a well-rounded data centre software sales acumen in serving both blue-chip enterprises and service providers, crafting innovative solutions with partners to fulfill specific customer needs.
 
Michelle Rockler is responsible for building and scaling company’s global strategic alliances and partnerships. She is a results-oriented leader with a record of managing partnership teams and delivering revenue growth. She brings more than twenty years’ experience across a spectrum of technology leaders in big data, cloud, data protection, server and virtualisation. Prior to Scality, she led relationships with Cisco and Microsoft and managed ecosystem alliances at NetApp, Barracuda Networks (Yosemite Technologies) and Dell EMC (Legato). She is based in Scality’s San Francisco, CA, HQs.
 
“Wally MacDermid joins right as we launch our Zenko cloud controller product line, which builds on our leading Scality RING file and object storage product and expands our value-add for customers in the new multi-cloud era,” added Menard.
 
Wally MacDermid focuses on developing go-to-market strategies for Scality’s cloud solutions, bringing a deep understanding of the enterprise software infrastructure space and the ability to cultivate business with public cloud leaders. He most recently led the go-to-market strategy for Riverbed‘s AWS-focused business. Prior to that he concentrated on business development, strategic alliances, and marketing roles at multiple start-ups; most notably Onaro, which was acquired by NetApp. He is based in Scality’s San Francisco, CA, HQs.