COPAN Adds 14 Executives

COPAN Systems has hired fourteen key executives to
enhance its global team. 

EMEA

• Andrew Wilson joins COPAN Systems as Global Vice President
  of Commercial Operations. He has over twelve years’ business
  development management experience, with eight years in the storage
  market. Andrew will focus on the business issues driving today’s
  storage industry, working closely with customers to ensure that they
  receive tailored storage solutions to meet their business needs. He
  joins from Hitachi Data Systems, where he held the position of UK
  Operations Director and most recently UK Sales and Marketing Director.
• Martin Cooper joins as Director, Pre-Sales Engineering. He
  will report to Martin Firth and be responsible for systems and
  engineering in EMEA.  Prior to this, Cooper was a member of the EMEA
  and APAC leadership team at Acopia Networks International.
• Andrew Childs joins as Systems and Engineering Director,
  Middle East region. Previously, he was Pre-Sales Support Division
  Manager at STME Ltd in Dubai and has worked in the Middle East for over
  10 years.
• Paul Hargreaves joins as Systems Engineer in the UK where he
  will assist in managing new and existing customer relationships for
  COPAN Systems. He brings eight years’ experience gained from a similar
  role at Network Appliance.
• Laurence Martin joins as Territory Sales Manager for France,
  working alongside Patrick Trajkovic. She previously worked at EMC as
  Sales Manager for the banking sector and prior to that she was Sales
  Director at Sequent.

• COPAN Systems has also announced the promotion of Mick
  Bradley to Senior Vice President of Technical Services and Solutions.
  Over the last year, Mick has successfully developed a strong team of
  highly skilled data center technicians.

Asia Pacific

• Eddie Palmer joins as Vice President of the Asia, South
  Australia and New Zealand region. Previously he held sales roles at
  Check Point Software Technologies and Datacraft Asia. Eddie’s sales
  experience will be instrumental in driving COPAN Systems’ sales
  operations across the region
• Darryl McKinnon joins as Territory Sales Manager of the Asia
  South region which includes Singapore, India, Malaysia, Thailand,
  Indonesia and Emerging Markets. He will be based in Singapore and he
  previously worked at Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) where he was
  responsible for Sun Microsystems and HDS business across Asia Pacific
• Masaki Katsumata joins as Country Manager, Japan. He was
  previously District Sales Manager at EMC Japan, where he was
  responsible for the entire telecoms and entertainment market
• Shuichi Kurazano joins as Technical Account Manager and will
  be based in Japan, reporting into Masaki Katsumata, Country Manager.
  Mr. Kurazono previously spent four years with Symantec as a Senior
  Pre-Sales Consultant where he looked after telecom industry giants
  including NTT Docomo, KDDI and Softbank
• Andrew Lee joins as Technical Partner Manager, and will be
  based in Singapore. Andrew joins from Sun Microsystems, where he was
  leading Storage Pre-sales for Malaysia. Andrew has over 15 years’
  experience with EMCD Technologies, a distributor of EMC, and EMC
  respectively.
• Wong Kee Wing joins as Systems Engineering Director for the
  Greater China region. He will be based in Beijing and joins from Sun
  Microsystems where he was the Senior Manager Storage Group for Greater
  China. He brings 15 years’ experience in the storage industry, having
  previously also held positions at StorageTek and IBM
• Larry Lim joins as Manager Technical Services for South
  Asia, and will be based in Singapore. For the past two years, Lim has
  been working at Ocasio Consulting. Prior to that, he spent nine years
  working at IBM and EMC respectively.

US

• Mike Connolly has been appointed as Vice President for North
  American sales. Connolly brings 20 years’ storage and information
  management experience having previously worked at Storage Networks
  (SNI), Infoblox and Acopia/F5. In addition, over the course of a 12-year
  tenure at EMC, Connolly took on sales duties in New York City, Boston,
  San Francisco and Chicago, where he led an enterprise sales territory
  that generated annual revenues north of $250 million.
• John Tsinkelis joins as Field Sales Team member, working as
  a Senior Systems Engineer in the North East US region. John will be
  based in New York City and will report to Bob Seiboth, North East US
  region.

Today, COPAN Systems has eleven offices worldwide in the US, Canada,
UK, France, Germany, Singapore and Japan. Since March 2007, COPAN
Systems has been on a steady recruitment drive and will continue to
grow its team of storage industry experts

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