Ursheet drives strategy and business execution for StorSimple. Prior to StorSimple, Ursheet was the Director of product management for Cisco’s WAN optimization and application acceleration business unit, building the Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) product from concept to product delivery and revenue, growing the business from tens of millions to several hundreds of millions in annual revenue with thousands of customers. Within 4 years, Cisco WAAS obtained industry leadership with #1 market share and the Best of Interop award for 2008. Ursheet came into Cisco through the acquisition of Andiamo Systems, where he held a product management role. Prior to that, Ursheet held leadership positions at Kuokoa Networks, a file system virtualization company and at Jalva Media Inc, a digital asset management software and outsourcing company. Ursheet started his career in enterprise IT at Deloitte Consulting where he worked as analyst, technical architect and project leader for a range of data-center, networking and applications IT infrastructure projects across multiple industries.
Ursheet holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science & engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay (Mumbai), India and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
Guru drives operations and product development for StorSimple. He is a 20+ year storage industry veteran, and a pioneer in the early development of Fibre Channel and SCSI technology. His technical expertise includes Fibre Channel and SCSI protocols, RAID storage subsystems, high availability and clustering technologies. Prior to StorSimple, Guru was one of the top executives at Brocade. Prior to StorSimple, Guru was the VP/GM for the Brocade/Foundry Application Delivery Controller and the Files Business, where he was responsible for overall product strategy and delivery. His other roles included VP Engineering, Software where he led Brocade’s software engineering team to deliver the core products that enabled Brocade to achieve market leadership in Storage Area Network (SAN) switching. Guru came into Brocade in 2002 through the acquisition of Rhapsody Networks, where he was founder and VP of Engineering, responsible for defining the company's product direction, directing product development, and leading the engineering organization. Under his leadership, Rhapsody developed industry-leading modular and fixed-configuration block virtualization switching products. Prior to Rhapsody Networks, Pangal founded Rhapsody Systems Inc. a technology consultancy firm focused on high-speed interconnects for the storage industry. He was also the co-founder and Vice President of Engineering at Starcom Technologies. Pangal began his engineering career at Hewlett-Packard.
Pangal holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Utah State University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, India, and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from JNT University, India.
Bill is responsible for the overall Sales and Channel strategy for StorSimple. With over 15 years of sales and channel experience, Bill joins StorSimple from Data Domain where he served as Senior Director, Worldwide Channel Sales. At Data Domain, Bill was responsible for the conceptualization, recruitment and execution of the overall strategy for the company’s indirect, strategic, and alternative channels where sales grew to over $250 million in five years. Bill was a key contributor in Data Domain’s growth as the market leader in Data Deduplication prior to its acquisition by EMC Corporation in 2009. Bill brings, to StorSimple’s management team, a background that spans both the Storage and Networking segments along with an exceptional track record in early stage companies. Bill has held senior sales and channel management positions at Storwize, McDATA, VA Software and NetScreen.
Bill holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Northern Arizona University (NAU).
Joel is responsible for product management and technical strategy at StorSimple. Joel joined StorSimple from Cisco’s Application Delivery Business Unit (ADBU), where he drove technical strategy and solution architecture for Cisco’s WAN optimization and application delivery initiatives, including architectures centered on application visibility, control, and optimization, helping to establish Cisco as a product and technology leader in that market. During his tenure at Cisco, Joel also held positions focusing on data center architectures and technologies, including the Multilayer Data Center switching family (MDS 9000). Additionally, Joel was director of product management at Reconnex, where he helped bring the product and company to a leadership position in the information security (Data Loss Prevention) market, up to its acquisition by McAfee. Joel has authored three books on the topic of WAN optimization and application acceleration.
Joel holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from Columbia University in the City of New York, NY, and a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering Technology.