Industry Veteran Ian Howells Joins StorSimple as Chief Marketing Officer
Posted by Chris Morton on Tue, Sep 14, 2010 @ 12:02 AM
Howells’ Appointment Follows $13 Million Series B Funding to Accelerate Expansion Plans
StorSimple announced today that it has appointed Ian Howells as chief marketing officer. An industry veteran with 25 years of experience at leading companies such as Ingres, Documentum, SeeBeyond and Alfresco, Howells will be responsible for the StorSimple marketing strategy and operational activities globally.
“The recent bidding war for 3PAR shows how hot thin provisioning and the cloud storage market are,” said Ursheet Parikh, founder and CEO of StorSimple. “We are poised for very rapid growth and our recent Series B funding will help us execute on the massive potential we are seeing in the market today. Ian is recognized as a world-class CMO and has a proven track record with our investors. His application experience at Documentum and Alfresco will help us focus on delivering application-optimized cloud storage appliances that solve immediate customer challenges.”
Most recently, Howells was at Alfresco, where he was core part of the team that built it from a startup to the largest private open source company in the world and the clear leader in open source Enterprise Content Management. Prior to Alfresco, Howells was responsible for worldwide marketing at SeeBeyond before its acquisition by Sun. Howells was the first employee of Documentum in Europe, where he had both European marketing and global marketing roles.
“The cloud offers tremendous benefits with instant, elastic provisioning across multiple data centers and low-cost utility billing,” said Dr. Ian Howells, CMO of StorSimple. “Customers want the ability to instantly and securely integrate the cloud into their enterprise applications without being forced to migrate those applications into the cloud, or switch their users to new unfamiliar applications. StorSimple securely integrates cloud storage with the same security and at least the same performance as primary storage. It is exciting to be in such as high-growth market and be part of forming a great company that will change the way people use the cloud.”
