Erwan Menard Board’s Director, Kalray

Kalray, Inc. announced that the board of directors has appointed Erwan Menard, 46, an expert in storage for cloud and Enterprise businesses, as an independent board member.

He is based in Belvedere Tiburon, CA, and provides the company with strategic expertise on storage and infrastructure technology in cloud and data centers, which support Kalray’s ambitions in this market.

He is currently leading Google Cloud’s infrastructure and applications modernization portfolio of solutions. Previously, he was the CEO of Elastifile, a start-up providing scalable enterprise file storage solutions for the cloud, acquired by Google in 2018. Previously, he has been president and COO at Scality, a provider of software-defined cloud storage solutions, where he led the company’s growth phase to becoming a Gartner Magic Quadrant leader. Prior to Scality, he served on various executive positions at DataDirect Networks, a provider of scalable high-performance storage systems for big data, Hewlett-Packard and Alcatel-Lucent.

“Erwan’s expertise and market understanding in data center and cloud, especially in storage and network infrastructure technology, is extremely valuable to Kalray“, said Eric Baissus, CEO. “The board is delighted to welcome Erwan Menard and looks forward to his strategic contributions to Kalray’s next phase of growth in the new gen of Data Centers”, said Gilles Delfassy, COB.

“Transformation of data centers along with the continuous need to accelerate processing create a significant opportunity for innovative intelligent processors such as Kalray’s MPPA“, said Menard. “I am delighted to join Kalray’s board of directors and eager to contribute to Kalray’s growth and success.”

The board of directors now has 9 members, including 3 independent members.

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