Ali Zadeh Senior VP and GM, Stec

STEC, Inc. announced that
industry veteran Ali Zadeh has joined the company as Corporate Senior Vice
President and General Manager to help develop its systems and software
technology strategy.

  Mr. Zadeh is chartered with expanding STEC’s SSD offerings through the
definition, development and sales of new software and systems that take
advantage of the company’s intellectual property portfolio. These offerings
will help enable enterprise IT and data center managers to accelerate user
access to data and help to effectively manage the exponential growth in data.

Mr. Zadeh
joins STEC with more than 25 years of leadership experience in the enterprise
storage, data center systems, and software virtualization markets, and has a
proven strong, revenue growth track record. His responsibilities will be
focused on business development with enterprise OEMs and independent software
vendors (ISVs), as well as building partnerships that define and introduce new,
unique and innovative hardware and software solutions to leverage STEC’s
intellectual property and expertise in solid-state technology. In this role, he
is also chartered to explore the next-generation solid-state platform evolution
and to expand STEC’s reach in enterprise IT and data center environments.

"Ali joins STEC at a time when the enterprise
SSD market is expected to achieve rapid growth over the next few years and his
track record of leadership in building and strengthening organizations will
help further expand our business opportunities in both the enterprise storage
and server market segments," said Manouch Moshayedi, STEC’s Chairman
and CEO. "His past experiences with
innovative start-ups and established storage players make Ali ideally suited
for his new position with STEC."

During the
past 7 years, Mr. Zadeh was responsible for building start-up companies toward
rapid sales growth and successful exit strategies, which included Scalent, Inc.
(acquired by Dell Inc.), NeoPath,
Inc. (acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc.) and InfoBlox,
Inc. Mr. Zadeh also served as Vice President of Intercontinental Operations and
Vice President of International Sales for Network Appliance, Inc., where he led
global sales and operations teams build revenue and maximize gross margins in
vertical market segments.

"STEC is a true innovator and leader within
the enterprise SSD industry and I am thrilled to become part of this exciting
company in a high-growth market segment," said Mr. Zadeh. "I look forward to strategically utilizing
the company’s IP portfolio, system-level expertise, and passion for innovation
to expand the use of solid-state storage in enterprise IT and data center
environments around the globe. My goal is to help define and build creative
solid-state solutions that are optimized to help manage the data deluge and
lower TCO in the enterprise."