Steve Leonard, Board’s Director, Vello Systems

Vello Systems, Inc., provider of deployable software-defined infrastructure for matching system resources to application requirements in cloud, big data and other critical enterprise services, announced that it has appointed Steve Leonard to the company’s board of directors.

Leonard is a well business-building strategist, and joins serial entrepreneur Cheng Wu as an outside director on the company’s board.

"We are excited to have Steve join Vello’s board of directors. As a well-known industry veteran, he brings critical experience and market understanding to the table that will help guide Vello’s next level of growth and development," said Karl May, CEO, Vello Systems. "Steve’s track record of success in growing major technology companies and brands, his wide network of industry relationships, and his proven ability to build shareholder value will be of great impact in helping Vello become the leading company for inovation-driven enterprise networking solutions, especially as we continue to expand our international presence."

"As compute, storage, and networking systems converge to support complex application requirements, Vello has begun to establish itself as the leading provider of innovative infrastructure software to accelerate the process," said Leonard. "Customers need to roll out new applications quickly across a broad multivendor network and storage environment, but that can be complicated and costly. Vello delivers software-defined infrastructure-management capabilities that enable these complex systems to work together as a single entity regardless of vendor. This represents an important leap forward in putting choice and control in the hands of the enterprise customers. I am excited to support Vello in helping its customers more-confidently confront their cloud- and big data-driven challenges moving forward."

 Leonard is deputy chairman of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore, a role he began in May 2013. For more than 20 years, he has been a senior executive at technology companies including EMC, Symantec, and EDS. In each of those roles, he was accountable for building and leading large go-to-market organizations, in addition to other executive responsibilities. From 2006-2013, he worked for EMC Corporation, first as president AsiaPac/Japan, then as corporate SVP global emerging markets. Prior to that, he was SVP AsiaPac/Japan for Symantec Corporation, and held various senior positions at EDS Corporation including president solutions consulting EMEA.