Dan Beal VP Sales, Cleversafe

Cleversafe Inc. announced the appointment of Dan Beal as Vice President of Sales, extending the company’s executive management team.

Beal brings more than 15 years of experience in developing strategic sales initiatives and creative revenue streams, and is well positioned to grow the Cleversafe brand and identify emerging opportunities for the company’s resilient cloud storage solutions.

"We’re thrilled to add someone of Dan’s caliber to the executive team," said Chris Gladwin, president and CEO, Cleversafe. "Dan has a long track record of increasing sales success for enterprise organizations including Hitachi Data Systems and EMC, and we look forward to leveraging his expertise to expand our business into the areas that most require a secure and massively scalable cloud storage platform."

Prior to joining Cleversafe, Beal served as Senior Vice President World Wide OEM Field Sales for InMage Systems. Before that, he served as Regional Manager for Hitachi Data Systems, where he led the top-performing Midwest sales region. Prior to HDS and during his seven years with EMC, he consistently outperformed his sales goals and led the company’s highest producing sales region as both commercial manager for small-to-medium accounts and enterprise manager for large accounts.

Dan holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado.

"I’m pleased to be joining Cleversafe at such a pivotal time for the organization," said Beal. "I believe Cleversafe offers a unique approach to secure cloud storage that others aren’t addressing in the market, and I look forward to helping the organization meet its goals of expanding into key markets like healthcare, telecommunications, managed services, and Web 2.0."