Thomas A. DeLorenzo VP Sales, Lightbits

Lightbits Labs, Ltd has appointed Thomas A. DeLorenzo as VP sales, growing the company’s sales position and readying it to take advantage of future growth across the Eastern US region.

In this role, he will help drive strategy to deliver high-performance, software-defined NVMe/TCP storage solutions to enterprise customers. With his leadership, the company is primed to take advantage of future growth in the financial sector that benefits from high-performance, disaggregated data platforms for VMware workloads. At the same time providing insight into how its technology can support high-performance databases, big data analytics, and Web-scale environments using bare metal, virtual or container-based architectures.

“Lightbits is at the inflection point of phenomenal growth and customer adoption and we welcome Thomas at a time when our business is preparing to unlock the explosive opportunities ahead for us in on-premises, hybrid, and edge cloud deployments,” said Eran Kirzner, CEO. “With his extensive sales record and passion for innovative technology, Thomas will play a critical role in helping us expand our footprint in the region.”

Prior to joining, DeLorenzo served a tenure as regional VP for sales at Turing Video. Here he helped bolster the skills with the sales organization, assisted in developing sales-driven programs across the region, and increase market presence. In his over 30 years in the technology industry, he has also held senior sales roles at CloudSimple before its acquisition by Google, Infinidat, Brocade Communications, and Veritas Software. His passion for start-ups also saw him play a strategic role in developing sales strategies and go-to-market modeling for Vexata, FusionIO, Nimble, Data Domain, and CLARiiON, where he was the leading global account manager.

“As we move into the data-centric economy, the need for elastic, scalable, and highly performant data platforms is only growing. The Lightbits promise of providing solutions that are easy to deploy, can scale up and out, is more cost-efficient than traditional solutions, and offers crazy IOP performance, is what has attracted me to this dynamic, growing business,” he said. “I am looking forward to working with the sales team to showcase how our software-defined NVMe-based storage solutions are replacing SAN and DAS infrastructure. And how we can help customers solve their IT infrastructure challenges with Lightbits.”

Lightbits gained traction in 2021, and the company ended the year by being listed on the 2021 Big50 Start-up Report, delivering a software-defined NVMe/TCP storage solution for VMware environment, being named a finalist in CRN’s 2021 Tech Innovator Awards and winning a coveted 2021 Tech Trailblazers Award.