Phillip Williams VP B’ss Dev’t, Kaminario

Kaminario,
announced that sales and business development expert Phillip Williams has
joined the company as vice president of business development.

  Williams will be
responsible for expanding the company’s partner and channel programs worldwide
and nurturing its current relationships with Dell Inc., Fusion-io and Matrix. He has
extensive experience in developing and executing strategic alliances and
channel programs for both large multinational companies and venture-backed
startups.

Williams
joins Kaminario from Dell’s Information Data Management and storage group.
Prior to Dell, he was the vice president of Global Business Development and
Solutions Marketing at NetApp. At
NetApp he was instrumental in helping drive NetApp’s growth strategy in NAS,
iSCSI and Fibre Channel by developing key strategic partnerships and marketing
programs with Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, SAS and key vertical software providers
in areas such as financial services, energy, product design and manufacturing.
Prior to NetApp, Williams also held executive positions in business
development, marketing and channels at Intraware,
BITsource and Novell.

"Phil has a proven track record of building
key revenue-generating partnerships and channels sales organizations,"
said Dani Golan, CEO of Kaminario. "We
are excited to have such a seasoned business development executive join the
Kaminario team. His multifaceted experience and business development leadership
will help us drive Kaminario’s growth."

"I have helped companies like NetApp go
through their hypergrowth and achieve outstanding results in terms of market
share and revenue," said Williams. "Kaminario is at that critical point in its hypergrowth and is poised to
revolutionize the SAN storage market."