David Godenne Country Manager France, OpenText

David Godenne, a veteran of the storage industry, has joined OpenText France as country manager.

 Godenne was formerly:

• Senior VP EMEA Sales, Streamcore,
• VP EMEA global accounts software, EMC
• VP Southern European sales, EMC/Legato Software.
• VP channel SEMEA and Benelux, CA
• VP Europe, SyQuest Technology
• Sales manager CMS Southern Europe, HP
• Director of Southern European sales, Conner Peripherals

Two years ago he launched IT Euro Partners with Gill Borniche, now working for Nexsan, to offer companies to extend their European channel, but this venture didn’t succeed.