Nexenta Expands Strategic Advisory Board

Nexenta Systems Inc. announced growth to their advisory board, qualified individuals from both the public and private sector.

Their backgrounds will add experience, depth, and knowledge to the advisory board, ranging from AI to education.

“We couldn’t ask for a better mix of people, knowledge and experiences to bring to the Nexenta advisory board,” chairman and CEO Tarkan Maner notes. “These individuals are making huge impacts on the modern world today and we can’t wait to see how they impact Nexenta’s continued growth in the Software-Defined Storage market.“

Current advisory board members include Sam Greenblatt, former CTO Dell EMC, Adrian Ionel, CEO of Mirantis, Shang Liang, CEO Rancher, and Mark Templeton, former CEO Citrix.

The following individuals have been added to the board:

Maryam Alexandrian-Adams, previous VP of global sales, channels and field operations at Dell. Her time at Dell, and understanding of virtualization will serve as an asset. Additionally, her overall background leading large enterprise sales teams will lend value to the board.
Muhammed Chaudhry, former president and CEO at Silicon Valley Education Foundation (SVEF). Before that, he studied executive education at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. His work will benefit the board as he understands education needs within the public sector.
Joe Little, principal systems architect for the department of electrical engineering at Stanford University. He been involved with Stanford’s IT for over 20 years, and was a top decision maker for Stanford’s early adoption of Nexenta. His experience guiding the IT for a world ranking private university brings great knowledge of the private sector to the board.
Rob Painter is MD at Razor’s Edge Ventures. He has been an early investor with Nexenta, and brings knowledge of the public sector to the board. He is also a professional staff member at The Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs, Ohio University.
Francesco Paola is chief strategy officer at Unitas Global. He previously founded Solinea (now part of Unitas Global), a company dedicated to driving enterprise hybrid cloud solutions. His mastery of digital transformation and transforming IT solutions will aid the board as they help Nexenta make industry progressions.
Michael Raam is the former CEO and president of Weka.io. He has several years’ experience working as an executive for many different Silicon Valley technology companies, bringing both expertise and leadership to the board.
Ramadurai Ramalingam is MD and product engineering head at Accenture. With his record at Accenture and his previous work as the VP and global head of hi-tech verticals at Wipro, he has a lot to offer the board from an enterprise data center perspective.
Boris Sofman is CEO and co-founder at Anki, Inc. He comes with an expertise in AI and robotics. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a Ph.D. in robotics and went on to co-found Anki, with a goal of bringing artificial intelligence accessibility to everyone.