Quantum Hires Jerry Lopatin as Senior VP Engineering

Quantum Corp. announced
that Jerry
Lopatin has joined the company as senior vice president,
engineering,
reporting to Rick Belluzzo, chairman and CEO. A former executive
at Network
Appliance and ONStor with more than 25 years in the storage
industry,
Lopatin has a broad range of experience leading engineering
teams in
developing innovative, world-class products and solutions.

Lopatin spent six years at Network Appliance, two of them
as senior vice
president, worldwide engineering. In that role, he led a
1,000-person
software and hardware engineering team across five sites
worldwide,
creating products that generated over $2 billion in annual
revenue. Before
that, Lopatin was general manager of the company’s NearStore
business unit,
where he grew this disk-based backup and archive product
line from the
ground up to an industry-leading position and $250 million
in annual
revenue in less than three years.

At ONStor, Lopatin served as senior vice president, engineering,
operations
and customer support and was a member of the executive team.
He played a
key role in growing revenue 250 percent in his first year
at the company,
delivered five major software releases, drove the launch
of ONStor’s
integrated storage offering, and achieved significant improvements
in data
availability and integrity.

Prior to Network Appliance and ONStor, Lopatin held leadership
positions at
Iomega, Samsung Electronics, Seagate and Komag and spent
the first nine
years of his career at IBM, all involving storage device
technology.

Lopatin is the inventor on two issued patents, with two
other patent
applications pending, and has several published inventions.

Quantum Corp.