CTO and EVP Strategy and Technology Jean-Luc Chatelain Left DDN

 Jean-Luc Chatelain, CTO and EVP strategy and technology at DDN, left his company and the storage industry to join Accenture as MD for analytics.

“This is for me a very exciting opportunity as the business world is definitively at the dawn of an era of the information  powered enterprise where Accenture can bring assets, both software and human, to help the transformation process,” he wrote in an email.

Before arriving at DDN in 2011, he worked at HP as VP and CTO information optimization and ILM chief evangelist following the acquisition in of Persist Technologies in 2005, a start-up he founded and where he was CTO. Formerly he was CTO and VP of engineering Zantaz after being CTO and VP of R&D at Kodak Health Imaging.