Paul Silver VP of Sales for Europe, DynamicOps

DynamicOps, provider of private cloud automation software, has closed $11 million in venture funding. The Series B round was led by Sierra Ventures. Next World Capital participated, joining Credit Suisse’s Next II venture group in ownership. The company also added industry veterans Les Yetton and Paul Silver to its executive team, and Mark Fernandes to its board of directors

Paul Silver brings more than 25 years of experience in expanding high-tech businesses to international markets to the newly created role of VP of Sales, Europe at DynamicOps. He is responsible for the direction and management of all sales, business development operations and channel strategies in Europe. Recently, Paul was Vice President of EMEA for EqualLogic, a storage solution vendor. In this role, he established EqualLogic in Europe and played a major part in the company’s growth, which ultimately led to its acquisition by Dell. Prior to EqualLogic, Paul was general manager of EMEA for Intransa and, before that, he was CEO of Avanti Europe.