Don Pearce Elected to the Board of Crossroads

Crossroads Systems, Inc. announced the appointment of Don Pearce as a new member of its Board of Directors.

 
Pearce provides a wealth of experience and a global network of active industry contacts from a long and successful career focused on sales. A recognized leader in business management, Pearce brings a significant track record of delivering revenue generating strategies within the high-tech sector.

Beginning his career at IBM, he continued achieving consistent corporate growth results for more than 20 years at Amdahl Corp., Tarantella, StorageTek and Sun Microsystems. He has received numerous accolades for business excellence, highlighting achievements such as leading his Amdahl sales team to number one in U.S. revenue for 15 consecutive years. Currently, Pearce serves as vice president for the Texas division of Alliance Technology Group.

Throughout his active business career, he has built a solid reputation for excellence in storage and data management and gained trusted relationships with end-user executives, channel partners and industry experts. Pearce has been involved with a wide variety of civic activities, many of which have led him to serve on the board of many organizations. He now serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the Computer Science Engineering Department at Southern Methodist University. He is an honors graduate of Southern Methodist University with a B.S. in mathematics and received a M.S. in mathematics from Louisiana State University.

“We are extremely pleased to welcome Don Pearce to our Board of Directors, as he offers a proven record of sales and business management success in the industry. His leadership serves as a vital, key asset during Crossroads’ continued expansion into various sales models of the data storage-security arena,” said Rob Sims, President and CEO of Crossroads Systems.