Brett Helsel Appointed Senior VP of Engineering at Isilon

This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on Tue, March 18th, 2008

And Paul Rutherford promoted CTO

Isilon Systems announced that Brett Helsel has joined Isilon as Senior Vice President of Engineering to lead the company's product development during a key period of growth and ascendance of clustered storage as a next-generation storage infrastructure in the enterprise. Prior to joining Isilon, Mr. Helsel most recently served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lockdown Networks and previously served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice-President of Product Development at F5 Networks, where he functioned as a part of the original management team that built the company into the global leader in application delivery networking.

Isilon also announced that Paul Rutherford has been named Isilon's Chief Technology Officer and will play a key role in guiding and evangelizing Isilon's long-term technical vision and strategy. Mr. Rutherford had been previously serving as Isilon's Vice President of Engineering. Prior to joining Isilon, Mr. Rutherford served as Chief Technology Officer of Advanced Digital Information Corporation (ADIC).

Mr. Helsel most recently served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lockdown Networks, a provider of network security products and services. Prior to joining Lockdown, Helsel served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Product Development at F5 Networks, where he was part of the core management team that took F5 Networks through its IPO, to become the global leader in application delivery networking. Prior to joining F5 Networks, Helsel held executive leadership positions at CyberSafe, Inc. and Wall Data. He holds Bachelor of Science degrees in geophysics and oceanography from the Florida Institute of Technology and is a graduate of the University of Washington's Executive Management Program.

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