Former EqualLogic President and CEO Don Bulens Joins the Board of VideoIQ

VideoIQ, Inc. announced the addition of Don Bulens to its board of directors. As former president and CEO of EqualLogic, Bulens led the company to success in the high performance iSCSI storage area network (SAN) market and ultimately to an acquisition by Dell for $1.375 billion. Bulens’ expertise in the storage industry and proven track record in bringing revolutionary products to market will help VideoIQ build on its leadership position in the intelligent video surveillance marketplace.

Bulens is an industry veteran with extensive experience in strategically building companies from early-stage to large market leaders. Throughout his career, he has propelled emerging companies into leadership positions by devising and executing on innovative channel strategies that led to broad customer adoption. During his tenure at EqualLogic, its channel program was one of the fastest-growing and highly regarded in the storage industry, delivering an extensive portfolio of tools and resources to help partners achieve and maintain competitive advantage.

Prior to his position with EqualLogic, Bulens served as CEO of Trellix Corporation, a leading provider of OEM Web publishing tools for consumers and small businesses, which was acquired by Interland in 2003. Before Trellix, Bulens played a central role in driving the widespread market adoption of Lotus Notes. At Lotus, Bulens spearheaded the strategy and implementation that led to the creation of the industry of more than 18,000 companies that developed and marketed applications and services based on Lotus Notes.

"Don knows what it takes to build a company, successfully pioneer a market, and introduce revolutionary benefits to an established marketplace," said Scott Schnell, CEO of VideoIQ. "In particular, his expertise in bringing ground-breaking products through the channel will be a tremendous asset to us as we make intelligence part of every surveillance system. We are thrilled to have him join the board."

VideoIQ products transform video surveillance into a dynamic, real-time intelligent system for guarding against intruders and gaining early warning of security breaches in nearly any environment. Its newest product, the VideoIQ iCVR (intelligent Camera with Video Recording), builds advanced video analytics, content-aware storage and intelligent networking into high-quality IP security cameras. The VideoIQ iCVR represents a breakthrough in video surveillance by offering unprecedented capabilities that include: 1) plug-and-play, real-time analytics that warn of threats, without the need for time-consuming calibration and set up; 2) powerful appearance-based search that enables users to search for a particular person or vehicle across all cameras with the click of the mouse; and 3) an intelligent architecture that maximizes storage quality and minimizes network bandwidth requirements.

"VideoIQ is poised for tremendous success and its technology has incredible market potential," said Don Bulens. "The new iCVR product represents a major breakthrough in video surveillance and storage, and I’m excited to help the company seize this huge market opportunity."