Paul Lidsky President and CEO of Datalink

Datalink Corporation announced the resignation of president and CEO Charlie Westling, who plans to pursue other opportunities. The board has appointed current Datalink board member Paul Lidsky, as president and CEO.

This change is effective immediately. Westling has also resigned from Datalink’s board, while Lidsky will remain on the board.

“On behalf of the board of directors, I want to thank Charlie for his leadership and service over the past seven years and his efforts in helping establish Datalink as a leader in the storage solutions industry,” said Datalink board chairman, Greg Meland. “We are also delighted to appoint Paul Lidsky as the company’s new president and CEO. We are confident that Paul’s leadership expertise and extensive systems integration background will serve Datalink well as the company moves forward.”

Lidsky has been a member of the board of directors since June 1998. “It’s a benefit to Datalink that Paul knows our company, technology platform and culture,” continued Meland. Lidsky brings a career’s worth of communications industry experience to Datalink, that began with a 12-year tenure at Norstan, where he most recently served as executive vice president of strategy and business development. Since then, Lidsky has served in a range of leadership positions, including President and CEO of Calabrio, Inc., as well as with several other technology companies.

According to Lidsky, “This is an exciting time to step into this role for Datalink. Datalink has always been a leader in the storage solutions industry. Furthermore, the growing acceptance and implementation of virtualization technologies is enabling customers to take some important steps in executing the vision of the virtual data center. The combination of Datalink’s core storage depth and strength with additional capabilities across virtualization and converged networking technologies and solutions will allow us to deliver more value to our customers as they more fully embrace the benefits of virtualized data centers and cloud computing in the future.”