Former CEO of RAIDCore Tom Marmen to the Board of Ciprico

Marmen brings more than 30 years of senior executive experience to Ciprico’s board, including more than 10 years in leadership roles of companies or divisions focused in the data storage and management industry; with particular focus on mass storage and virtualization software.

Most recently, Marmen was president and CEO of TimeLab Corp., an Andover, Mass., maker of a performance-enhancing technology for PC chips.

From November, 2001 until January of 2004, Marmen was chief executive of RAIDCore Corp., a Nashua, N.H.-based company focused on the development of data protection and virtualization software. RAIDCore Corp. was sold to Broadcom in January, 2004 and Marmen served as vice president and general manager of Broadcom’s Storage Line of business through April of 2006.

Ciprico purchased the RAIDCore line of business form Broadcom in June of 2006. RAIDCore Corp.’s unique approach to RAID technology is what is allowing Ciprico to offer an industry disruptive way to offer data protection without hardware and agnostic in terms of which silicon is used.

Prior to joining RAIDCore, Marmen was a senior vice president and general manager of the high-end storage division of Quantum Corp., and vice president of the Enterprise Solutions Group at Adaptec, Inc., where he was responsible for that company’s RAID business.

He received his bachelor’s of science degree in Mathematics from Salem State College in 1965, and a masters degree in physics from Worcester Polytechnic Institute in University and the Kellogg School, at Northwestern University.

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