Eric Shefler Senior VP of WW Sales for Blade Network

BLADE Network Technologies, Inc., in data center networking, announced the appointment of former EMC executive Eric Shefler as the company’s senior vice president of Worldwide Sales. Shefler has extensive sales leadership experience in both North America and Europe. Shefler is a native of Canada and will lead BLADE’s global sales organization from Canada.

 Shefler joins BLADE after a very distinguished 10-year career at EMC where he was most recently EMEA vice president Enterprise and Global accounts. His responsibilities also included EMC’s EMEA Marketing, Alliances and Networked Storage Sales organizations.

Prior to becoming vice president EMEA for EMC Computer Systems, Eric held a number of increasingly responsible positions at the company, including country manager for Canada and regional vice president for Western and Northern Europe. Prior to that, Eric was regional vice president for Cabletron Systems, responsible for Northeast Regional Sales and Operations.

"Eric joins BLADE Network Technologies at an incredibly exciting time," said Mehta. "Last year was a record year for the company, and we’re on track to break all previous records in 2010. Eric’s impressive experience as a sales leader will help us further accelerate the momentum we’ve established in the global enterprise data center marketplace."

"BLADE Network Technologies is one of the most well regarded companies in today’s data center industry," said Shefler. "BLADE’s brand is extremely well respected in all corners of the globe, and its products are vital to the world’s largest enterprises. As the data center network becomes increasingly central to enterprise business goals, BLADE has proven its ability to satisfy customers’ most demanding requirements. I am very excited about the opportunity to help lead the company in continuing to achieve its commitment to customer satisfaction as job number one as we expand our presence across all market segments and regions of the world."