Paul Silver EMEA VP, GreenBytes

GreenBytes, Inc. announced that Paul Silver has joined the company as vice president, EMEA.

 Silver, the former vice president, EMEA for EqualLogic, will be responsible for driving GreenBytes sales and channel activities throughout EMEA, as well as overseeing the opening and management of the company’s newly-established offices in London, UK.

Prior to joining GreenBytes, Silver worked as vice president of sales, EMEA at DynamicOps, vice president of EMEA at VirtenSys, channel sales director, EMEA at Dell EqualLogic, and vice president, EMEA at EqualLogic prior to the Dell acquisition. Silver has also held executive-level sales positions with Intransa, Cellectivity, Avanti Europe, Entevo and Data Translation, Inc.

Silver will be based at GreenBytes’ London offices located at 43-45 Portman Square, London, W1H 6HN United Kingdom, and will assume his position immediately.

"Paul Silver brings a tremendous amount of sales leadership experience to GreenBytes and we are excited to have Paul on our team, managing our interests in EMEA," said Richard Petrocelli, president and COO, GreenBytes. "Paul’s background is particularly well suited for bringing the HA-3000 HA inline deduplicating iSCSI SAN to the European market, and we look forward to increasing our momentum in the region."

"Consolidate IT is pleased with the appointment of Mr. Paul Silver at GreenBytes in his new function as VP, EMEA," said Jur Faber, CEO, Consolidate IT. "Previously, Consolidate IT was highly successful working with Paul in introducing EqualLogic to Europe and we are looking forward to repeating the success with Paul and our network of reseller partners throughout Europe."

"GreenBytes represents an exciting new challenge in my career with a disruptive storage technology that delivers high-performance and capacity-saving solutions that are mission-critical during the current world-wide disk shortage," said Paul Silver, vice president, EMEA, GreenBytes. "GreenBytes has already gained considerable traction in the European market with its game-changing technology and I look forward to continuing to drive growth of our customer footprint throughout the region."