Herb Schneider, Mitch Seigle, Kiran Sreenivasamurthy VP, Maxta

Maxta Inc., provider of software-based hyperconvergence, announced the addition of two storage industry executives and has promoted a company veteran to expand and strengthen its team.
 
The company also announced it has moved to new, larger quarters in Santa Clara, CA.

Joining the Maxta executive ranks are Herb Schneider, Mitch Seigle and Kiran Sreenivasamurthy, who will respectively lead the company’s engineering, marketing and product management teams. The three new VPs will report to founder and chief executive Yoram Novick and work closely Andrew Perry, SVP sales and Jim Fitzgerald, VP of business development and OEM sales.

Herb Schneider, a serial entrepreneur, has more than 25 years of experience in systems hardware and software engineering, delivering complex systems and software solutions for enterprise flash storage, enterprise networking and OpenStack-based clouds. Prior to joining Maxta, he served as EVP of engineering at Nebula, a provider of cloud software for enterprise customers. He also co-founded GridIron Systems, a private maker of flash-based application acceleration appliances and served as co-founder and VP of Extreme Networks, a publicly-held provider of enterprise and carrier-grade networking equipment. He holds several patents in data networking and security, and earned a BSEE from the University of California at Davis.

Mitch Seigle brings more than 20 years of industry marketing experience to Maxta, garnered at storage hardware and software companies where he held progressively responsible management and executive roles in product marketing and management, corporate communications, corporate marketing and investor relations. Before joining Maxta, he was VP marketing and product management for Syncsort, a provider of big data integration tools and storage backup and recovery software. His prior experience includes serving as VP of corporate marketing for LSI, a maker of storage silicon, systems and software and as senior director of corporate marketing for Engenio Information Technologies, provider of storage arrays and software to server and storage OEMs.

Kiran Sreenivasamurthy, who joined Maxta in 2013, has led the company’s product management and product marketing efforts through its early stages of development, culminating in bringing to market Maxta MxSP hyperconvergence software and MaxDeploy appliances. His previous roles include serving as lead software product manager for Hewlett-Packard 3PAR storage and product manager for Mendocino Software, a maker of CDP software. Additionally, he held various technical marketing, planning and engineering positions with NetApp, NetIQ and Taos Mountain. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Mysore, a master’s degree in computer science from Pace University, and an MBA in marketing and entrepreneurship from Santa Clara University.

“A business is only as good as its people and with the expansion of our leadership bench I can honestly say that Maxta is well positioned to be a great business,” said Novick. “Herb and Mitch are formidable additions to the Maxta team thanks to their industry knowledge and experience and Kiran has proved himself many times over in his previous role at Maxta. With the talent these executives bring to the team, I am convinced we will continue to succeed in delivering to enterprises of all sizes a superior hyperconverged infrastructure with unmatched simplicity, agility and cost savings.”

The company’s new principal offices are located at 2350 Mission College Boulevard, Suite 703, in Santa Clara, CA.