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George Tehrani VP Marketing, Smart IOPS

And Rick Hazell VP sales

Based in Cupertino, CA, Smart IOPS, Inc. announced that George Tehrani and Rick Hazell have joined the company as VP marketing and VP sales, respectively.

Tehrani is responsible for the overall creation and implementation of marketing strategies, including product management, strategy and brand to further accelerate top line revenue growth.

Hazell will be responsible for all direct and reseller sales, as well as growing customer accounts and partnerships that align with the company’s core business objectives.

George has tremendous industry expertise with a proven track-record of delivering enterprise and data center marketing initiatives on a global scale,” said Ashutosh Das, co-founder and CEO. “Rick’s expertise will be vital as we introduce a new category of flash storage to more effectively penetrate key markets and grow our share.”

A 24-year storage industry veteran, George Tehrani most recently served as executive director of strategic marketing for storage product business unit, Toshiba. In this role, he led all hyperscale data center SSD product marketing programs and campaigns driving retention and acquisition. Prior to Toshiba, he held senior leadership roles at Lenovo, in the company’s enterprise product group, and IBM storage marketing and product management organizations. He began his career at Western Digital Corporation, where he held a number of marketing and product leadership roles.

We are building a world-class marketing organization to help accelerate growth, and I am thrilled to play a key role as we begin to differentiate Smart IOPS as a preeminent force in helping enterprise customers gain maximum value from their storage and IT spend,” he said.

Smart IOPS,HazellRick Hazell brings over 30 years of semiconductor, storage and cloud computing experience and his strength and expertise in driving revenue will help the company capitalize on both established and emerging markets. He was most recently VP sales at xTV, a cloud service provider, and previously held sales leadership roles at SMART Modular Technologies, Sanmina-SCI, Viking, HCD and OCZ Technology.

 

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