Francois Morel Country Manager for France, Infinidat

INFINIDAT, Ltd announced that technology sales and operations expert, Francois Morel, has been named the country manager for France.

He will oversee French operations and country wide sales of the InfiniBox enterprise-proven storage array.
 
He has over 25 years’ experience managing sales and operations for growth software, hardware and technology services companies. He specializes in setting up sales and service organizations to deliver results, building performing sales teams and developing partnerships with customers. Over the course of his career, he has established a track record of more than doubling sales revenue every year at multiple companies.
 
Prior to joining INFINIDAT, he was senior sales director for EMEA at Quantum, where he doubled revenue his first year with the launch of the company’s new object storage solution. Previously, he was senior sales director for EMEA at eVault, a Seagate company specializing in cloud backup and recovery services. At eVault, he doubled sales and increased revenue for several lines of business, including new software, SaaS, services and appliances.
 
“Francois has an impressive record of sales and revenue growth and a reputation for building the most successful sales organizations in the data and cloud storage industry,” said Dan Shprung, VP of EMEA sales, INFINIDAT. “Having worked in France and EMEA his entire career, Francois is well-acquainted with the key enterprises in the region and understands the specific challenges they face with storage, virtualization, big data, and data recovery. Francois’s expertise and leadership will be invaluable to INFINIDAT as we drive to continue our sales and channel growth and expansion of our customer base in France.”

Earlier in his career, Morel was MD for France at Overlap Groupe, a subsidiary of Hexalis providing system integration. In this role, he completed a reorganization of the French subsidiary that led to 200% year-over-year revenue growth from 2007 to 2008. he also served for 10 years as VP and GM for France at Storagetek, where he launched and led the subsidiary to increasing revenues and 82% market share.
 
“This is a tremendous opportunity to join a rapidly emerging storage company that is revolutionizing the market with an ultra-high performance system delivering throughput, capacity and reliability at an attractive price point,” said Morel. “With my knowledge of the French market and experience addressing the technology challenges and requirements of local enterprises, I look forward to driving INFINIDAT’s continued sales and customer success in France and surrounding regions.“