Howard Dratler CEO, Panzura

Panzura, Inc., provider of cloud storage solutions, announced that Howard Dratler has been appointed Chief Executive Officer.

 Mr. Dratler is a seasoned software industry executive with more than 25 years of experience in the storage, content management and data warehousing markets, and has an impressive record of driving significant growth at both large and small companies. Prior to joining Panzura, Mr. Dratler served as CEO of Anacomp, provider of SaaS-based document management and eDiscovery services. Before Anacomp, Mr. Dratler served in a number of executive management roles at Captiva Software (acquired by EMC), Allocity, and VERITAS Software. At VERITAS, he was a member of the management team that led revenue growth from less than $30M to more than $1.5B.

In his earlier career, Howard spent ten years in a variety of engineering and product management positions at NCR/Teradata, provider of massively parallel data warehousing systems.

Howard is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a degree in Computer Science.

"I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to lead such a dynamic company in this nascent market," said Howard Dratler, CEO of Panzura. "The products and services offered by Panzura are unrivaled in the market today, and the company is very well positioned to continue its leadership in cloud storage innovation. Our ability to offer a highly advanced global storage platform that makes cloud storage truly viable for large business critical datasets, while also providing support for a customer’s existing storage capacity, is truly unique. With Panzura’s global storage platform, we are able to solve a number of very pressing and complex storage issues faced by large enterprises today."

"The Panzura Alto Cloud Controller, along with the unique features of SnapSphere, CollisionControl, and CyclonicDedup, have been extremely well received in the market," said Randy Chou, Co-Founder of Panzura. "We are very excited to have an experienced leader of Howard’s caliber on board to aggressively drive our growth in this market. Howard’s track record of success is indeed impressive, and his vision fits perfectly with Panzura.  We look forward to accelerating our growth and continuing our leadership in innovation under Howard’s direction."