Brian Pawlowski Chief Development Officer, Quantum

Quantum Corp. appointed Brian Pawlowski as chief development officer, alongside 2 senior executives to accelerate it’s software-defined infrastructure and international growth.

With more than 35 years of technical development and experience, he will drive excellence in software innovation as Quantum advances on its goal to be the leader in video and unstructured data solutions.

“Quantum’s transformation requires solving our customers’ most pressing business problems and delivering hybrid multi-cloud software innovation,” said Jamie Lerner, president and CEO. “Brian’s track record in building technologies and leading teams in high-growth environments will be critical to our success in achieving these goals.”

Innovation excellence
Pawlowski is a pioneer and distinguished technologist who joins Quantum from DriveScale, where he was CTO. Prior to that, he was VP and chief architect at Pure Storage, where he focused on improving the user experience for the all-flash storage platform provider’s rapidly growing customer base. He was also the 18th employee at NetApp, where he played a key role in the company’s expansion over nearly 2 decades in various roles including head of software development and CTO.

He began his career as a software engineer for companies like Sun Microsystems, where he drove the technical analysis on alternate file systems technologies and was the co-architect of the NFS protocol. He is the co-chair of the NFS Working Group at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and has served on the board of trustees for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, and as a board member at the Linux Foundation.

“As Quantum strives to be the leader in video and unstructured data, I’ll be focused on building synergies across our general business units, driving hybrid multi-cloud data management solutions, expanding our software download strategy, and simplifying our products for ease of customer use,” he said.

Software-defined infrastructure and international expansion

To drive cloud software strategy, develop deeper analytics and data enrichment capabilities for customers, and expand data services, Quantum has created a new cloud software and analytics business unit headed by Dave Clack, who joins as GM following Quantum’s recent acquisition of Square Box Systems, Ltd. He has advised several start-ups and established businesses on marketing, strategy, and growth across a range of industries, including household names like McAfee, Deutsche Bank, Rolls Royce, Ford, and HSBC. 
 
As part of its mission to become a global company, Quantum is focused on developing and supporting solutions for the expansive AsiaPac market, in AsiaPac, appointing long-term Quantum leader Jim Simon as its new Malaysia site leader. He will continue to grow and develop operations at the Kuala Lumpur office, serving the needs of the local markets, having held several business development and marketing roles at Quantum since 1998. Based in Singapore since 2004, he brings an understanding of the AsiaPac region.