David Feldman VP of Commercial Sales at DataDirect

Building upon a recent surge in business and a record financial quarter, DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) announced the beginning of a strategic growth plan which will involve salesforce expansion across the world. To commence this initiative, DataDirect Networks announces the hiring of David Feldman as Vice President of Commercial Sales.

In his role, Mr. Feldman will spearhead the company’s initiatives around rapidly expanding application segments that are experiencing a surge in data growth, such as corporate backup and archive, Web 2.0 and cloud storage, digital surveillance, media and entertainment and life sciences.

Prior to joining DataDirect Networks, Mr. Feldman led several sales teams in high-growth start-up companies and fostered rapid growth in market share. As a senior sales director at Isilon, Mr. Feldman was responsible for overseeing a sales team that grew to manage over $70 million of annual revenue. Most recently, Mr. Feldman served as Worldwide Vice President of Sales at Blackwave, where he ran all aspects of business and sales force development. Before Isilon, he created and led the Telco sales initiative at Veritas Software. Feldman holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Louisiana State University.

"Extreme Storage requirements are no longer the domain of the niche storage marketplace. DDN technology has been proven throughout the world’s most demanding environments and is now in high demand across a broad array of very high-growth industry segments," said Paul Bloch, President of DataDirect Networks. "We are entering an exciting time in DataDirect Networks history and we welcome Dave as he and his growing staff will be critical to our growth effort. Dave’s experience in the content and unstructured data marketplace is ideally suited to help take DDN to the next level."

"Extreme Storage technology from DataDirect Networks is uniquely designed to simplify the scale-out of data storage environments with maximum ease, value and power efficiency," said David Feldman. "DDN today powers many of the world’s most demanding commercial environments. I look forward to introducing the benefits of DDN technology to new content-intensive customers and markets as people learn how Extreme Storage can enable their businesses."