Raji Krishnaswami Director of AsiaPac-Japan, Panasas

Panasas, Inc. announced the appointment of Raji Krishnaswami as director of the AsiaPac-Japan (APJ) region.

Based in Tokyo, Japan, he will be responsible for expanding Panasas’ presence across the region, focusing on growth in media and entertainment as well as life science, research and education markets.

“We are excited to have Raji join our team and leverage his extensive experience with M&E customers to continue our expansion in the AsiaPac market through strategic partnerships and new customer acquisitions,” said Jim Donovan, chief marketing and sales officer.

Krishnaswami has more than 20 years of experience in driving business growth and leading sales in APJ, with a specialty in engineering advanced workflows for content creators, broadcasters, and HPC users. Prior to joining Panasas, he served as a senior solutions architect at Quantum, where he managed large media and entertainment accounts. He also held the position of cloud, content and media sales engineer at DataDirect Networks, where he architected installs at international media and entertainment content sites and for an array of HPC and cloud customers.

“The rapidly evolving media landscape feels immense pressure to expand connectivity and adopt ever higher resolutions and Panasas is uniquely positioned to address the performance and scalability challenges experienced by customers in media and other markets,” said Krishnaswami. “I am looking forward to driving the adoption of the leading performance scale-out NAS solution in APJ and expanding relationships with industry leading entertainment, life science and research companies in the region.”