David White VP of Cloud Operations, Elastifile

Elastifile Ltd announced the appointment of David White to the newly established position of VP of cloud operations, responsible for leading the company’s service-centric operations and ensuring customer success.

He reports to Elastifile CEO Erwan Menard.

Capitalizing on the launch of Elastifile’s fully managed, scalable file storage service on Google Cloud, the company is now further enhancing its operational infrastructure with additional tools, resources, and personnel, by the addition of White. His track record of delivering operational efficiency and customer satisfaction made him suited to lead cloud operations and to support the continued growth of its service offering.

“Joining Elastifile represents a unique opportunity to provide operational leadership within a company that itself has become a leader in the burgeoning market for cloud file storage,” he said. “I am excited to contribute my energy and expertise to support Elastifile’s continued success.”

White has nearly 30 years of experience in technology and has worked in a variety of industries, including United Nations/NGOs, pharmacy, behavioral healthcare and AI. He comes from Sentient Technologies, where he served as VP technical operations, managing all technology functions, including networking, cloud services, customer service, business development and globally distributed compute. Prior to Sentient, he was the COO/CIO of PipelineRx/Pipeline Healthcare; IT director at Stars Behavioral Health Group; and director of IT operations at Posit Science; director IT strategy Curative Health; among others.

He holds a Master of Arts in Linguistic Anthropology from UC Davis and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from Washington and Jefferson College.

“We are fortunate to have someone of David’s caliber leading our cloud operations and supporting the evolution of our service offerings,” said Menard. “His experience managing cloud environments and optimizing service-centric infrastructure is invaluable and further augments Elastifile’s unique expertise in delivering cloud-native, scalable file storage solutions.”

Elastifile is available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and bare metal on-premises environments, with Microsoft Azure availability coming soon.