Arnon Dinur Partner of Greylock Partners

Greylock Partners has hired Arnon Dinur, former SanDisk executive who consulted with the firm on two recent Israeli investments, as the firm’s newest partner.

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Greylock Partners is a big investor in storage start-ups since many years. Its current portfolio currently includes Data Domain (an excellent investment with an enormous ROI to come), Precise Software Solutions, Silver Peak Systems, Simply Continuous, Data Robotics, Incipient, and Xsigo Systems.

Arnon Dinur spent previously seven years with SanDisk as senior VP, leading mobile strategy. He joined SanDisk as part of the company’s $1.6 billion acquisition of Msystems in 2006 where he was was senior VP of Strategy and M&A. Prior to that, he was the corporate VP and GM of the DiskOnKey division at Msystems.

He joins other famous names as partner
at Greylock Partners, including:

Charles Chi joined Greylock from Ciena where he was VP of marketing.

Mike Stankey was hired by Greylock after spending five years as chairman and CEO of PolyServe, a storage virtualization software company acquired by HP in 2007.

Ash Ashutosh was VP and the chief technologist of the storage business unit at HP prior to joining Greylock. He joined HP as a result of the acquisition of AppIQ for $300 million in 2005, a SRM company he founded in 2001.

Erez Ofer formerly served as executive VP in charge of technology strategy for EMC, reporting to president and CEO Joe Tucci.