Bill Swales SVP WW Sales for Cloud Systems and Solutions Group, Seagate
Was at HP, McData, IBM and EMC.
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on October 15, 2014 at 3:03 pmSeagate Technology plc announced that Bill Swales joined the company on September 30 as SVP of WW sales for the cloud systems and solutions group, reporting to Seagate president Jamie Lerner.
“With the introduction of cloud Systems and solutions, Seagate further strengthened its position as a trusted storage solutions leader by delivering cloud systems and solutions for OEMs, ‘do-it-yourself’ and other organizations,” said Lerner. “Swales will work closely with our customers worldwide to leverage Seagate’s open approach to Intelligent Information Infrastructure for workloads of any scale and any size.”
Swales will lead the strategy, functions, initiatives and activities that support and direct the selling of Seagate’s cloud products and services. He will take an active role in developing and implementing OEM and partner strategies, and in building new and strengthening existing alliance, system integrator and channel partnerships.
He formerly held leadership positions and sales roles at Hewlett-Packard, McData, IBM and EMC.
He is the owner of Swalzy Consulting LLC which specializes in go-to-market and route-to-market planning and execution for emerging and mature technology organizations.