Panasas appoints Tom Shea as President and CEO
Summary
Shea is an experienced executive with more than 20 years of business and engineering leadership in the storage industry, including tenures as CEO of Gear6 and Mirra. “I am honored to succeed Faye as CEO and to lead the Panasas team, building on our incredibly strong technology foundation,” said Shea. I look forward to working with our fantastic employees, customers and partners to advance our strategy, drive growth, and deliver value every day for our customers.” Under Pairman’s leadership, Panasas drove an ambitious technology roadmap and market expansion that included introduction of the next-generation PanFS parallel file system, release of the new ActiveStor Ultra high-performance data storage appliance based on commercial off-the-shelf hardware, and new customer acquisitions across a broad spectrum of industries. “We commercialised the product, expanded into new markets and did something very few data storage companies have achieved: building a new HPC parallel file system, an effort that took four years of deep engineering work. In his role at DataStax, Ault leads worldwide field operations including data architects, sales, open source consulting, and partner ecosystem development.
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