Sujal Patel Board’s Director, Elemental

Elemental Technologies, Inc., supplier of video solutions for multiscreen content delivery, announced the appointment of Sujal Patel to its board of directors.

 Patel is the founder of Isilon Systems, in scale-out storage and a division of EMC, where he variously served as president, CEO and CTO officer since its inception in 2001.

He joins the Elemental board, replacing long-time advisor Bob Greenberg, as Elemental positions itself for further growth in 2013 and beyond.

"Sujal Patel helped grow Isilon from an innovative startup to a market-leading enterprise storage supplier, taking the company public and ultimately selling it to EMC for $2.25 billion," said Sam Blackman, CEO and co-founder of Elemental. "The unique leadership and entrepreneurial experience Sujal brings to Elemental will help guide our anticipated growth as we continue to expand share and extend our leadership within the video market."

"With its proven ability to help media and entertainment companies navigate new methods of video delivery, Elemental is driving disruptive change in much the same way that Isilon helped redefine enterprise storage," said Patel. "On its current trajectory, Elemental is exceptionally well-positioned to expand into new vertical markets, a growth strategy with which I am deeply familiar and can provide valuable counsel to the team and company."

Patel pioneered the technical architecture for clustered storage, creating a new sector in the enterprise storage market, and holds a number of patents and pending patents, including those for the Isilon OneFS distributed file system. Prior to founding Isilon, he served in various engineering roles at RealNetworks.

He is also a board member at Extrahop Networks, a Seattle-based start-up that supplies network-based application performance management solutions.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Maryland at College Park.