Scott Kamsler CFO of SandForce

SandForce, Inc., in SSD (Solid State Drive) Processors that enable commodity NAND Flash deployment in enterprise and client computing applications, has named Scott Kamsler as its Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer.

 Mr. Kamsler has 30 years experience in finance and operations with both private and public technology companies in the semiconductor, communicationsand instrumentation industries.

With this appointment, SandForce has completed
its top management team, which also includes:

• Alex Naqvi, President, CEO and co-founder
• Radoslav Danilak, PhD, CTO and co-founder
• Steffen Hellmold, VP Business Development
• Ray Holzworth, VP Operations
• Thad Omura, VP Marketing
• Michael Raam, VP Engineering
• Matt Ready, VP Sales
• Andy Tomlin, VP Firmware and Software

“The strong market acceptance of our SSD Processors and our recent $21 million in new funding puts SandForce in a position for rapid growth as we begin the next phase of our strategic plan and move into volume production,” said Alex Naqvi, President and CEO of SandForce. “Scott’s extensive experience in finance and the semiconductor industry, coupled with his expertise with growing businesses, building infrastructure, improving profitability and fund raising, makes him the ideal executive to help SandForce transition from a start-up to a growing, profitable company.”

“I am very excited to join SandForce and be part of a company that is developing disruptive technology that is changing how data is stored,” said Scott Kamsler. “I look forward to working with the talented team of SandForce employees to help make this a reality.”

Prior to joining SandForce, Mr. Kamsler held Chief Financial Officer positions at Exar Corp., a provider of interface, datacom, storage and power semiconductors and at Centillium Communications, a supplier of broadband access semiconductors. Before Centillium, Mr. Kamsler was Vice President of Operations of Wyse Technology, a manufacturer of thin client computers. Previous to Wyse, Mr. Kamsler served as Chief Financial Officer of Tasman Networks, Symmetricom, DSP Technology, Solitec and E-H International. He was also a co-founder and a board member of DSP Technology. Earlier in his career, he held finance positions at Intel and was an auditor with Peat Marwick and Mitchell.

He holds a Masters of Business Administration in Finance & Accounting from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Willamette University.