Dave Martin, Head Corporate and Business Development, Skyera

Skyera Inc. announced that David Martin, an experienced technology executive and advisor, has joined the company, responsible for Corporate and Business Development.

 Martin has more than 30 years of experience leading technology companies with a background focused on providing mission-critical enterprise systems. Previously, he served as the CEO, In Residence at Warburg Pincus LLC, a global VC and private equity firm with more than $35 billion under management, where h e focused on select technology portfolio companies and new investments. He has also served as the CEO of start-up companies Qlusters, a utility computing software company, and Entegrity Solutions, a security software company.

Prior leadership positions include CEO and owner of CEO Associates; EVP for Information Systems and member of the board of National Semiconductor Corporation; and CEO of National Advanced Systems, now Hitachi Data Systems. He started Advanced Memory Systems, now Intersil, which went public and was then acquired by GE. He began his career at IBM.

"Dave has an impeccable record of success leading and advising technology companies and his experience, wisdom and understanding of the technology and marketplace will be thoroughly appreciated here," said Radoslav Danilak, CEO and co-founder of Skyera. "We anticipate that Dave’s enthusiasm for Skyera and our enterprise solid-state storage solution will serve as a catalyst for driving the company through a rapid growth period as we expand our market for the Skyhawk series of all-Flash storage systems."

Martin is a current or former member of the boards of directors of Microcomputer Systems, National Semiconductor, NAS (HDS), DataFile, Edge Software, Entegrity and Qlusters. He was also on the board of the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA).

Martin received a BSE degree from Princeton University.