Jon Belcher Promoted VP of WW Sales at Neterion
From VP of OEM sales
This is a Press Release edited by StorageNewsletter.com on March 20, 2008 at 3:36 pmNeterion, Inc. announced that Jon Belcher has been promoted to the
position of Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Belcher joined Neterion
a year ago and has effectively served as Vice President of OEM Sales
since that time. Belcher has over 15 years of sales and executive sales
management expertise in both US and international markets from his
experience with Fujitsu, Crossroads Systems, Quantum Corporation and
Neterion.
Belcher’s leadership spans international high-technology
companies focused on the development of primary storage and networked
storage solutions. He has expertise in building
solid sales teams, winning new business and establishing long-term
relationships with global technology firms. This experience will play
an important role in enabling Neterion to promote its industry-leading
10 GbE and I/O Virtualization (IOV) solutions to enterprise
datacenters.
As the Vice President of Worldwide Sales, Belcher is
responsible for driving sales and advancing relationships with key OEM
and channel customers. In addition, Belcher will establish new
partnerships to execute Neterion’s strategy to drive high-growth
technologies based on 10 GbE, server virtualization and networked
storage with I/O solutions that offer breakthrough system performance
to enterprise datacenters.
Prior to joining Neterion in 2007, Belcher spent three years at
Quantum Corporation, where he oversaw worldwide OEM sales, realizing
$350M of annual revenue, increasing Quantum’s automation market share
by 10% through new product awards and developing strong relationships
with strategic customers, including Hewlett Packard, IBM, Dell and Sun
Microsystems. Belcher’s leadership efforts at Quantum led to reducing
sales OPEX by nearly $4M annually while simultaneously growing the
automation business.
While at Fujitsu Computer Products of America, the largest
overseas subsidiary of Fujitsu Ltd, Belcher served as the Director of
Global OEM Sales and was responsible for driving mobile, desktop and
enterprise hard disk drive sales to Dell Computer Corporation. Belcher
successfully grew the Dell account from being Fujitsu’s number three
mobile hard drive customer to number one.
Belcher holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from the
University of Arizona and served active duty in the United States
Marine Corps.