John Ferraro VP Sales, Gridstore

Gridstore, Inc. announced that 20-year IT industry veteran John Ferraro has joined the company as VP sales.

Reporting to CEO George Symons, he will be responsible for overseeing the planning, strategy and execution of global sales and channel initiatives. He will play a role in helping lead the company through its next phase of growth and continued in delivering optimized storage solutions for Windows Servers and Hyper-V that address today’s storage challenges.

"I am delighted to welcome John to the executive team as we execute on the next phase of rapid growth and product innovation as the leading provider of self-optimized storage that accelerates vital application and VM performance," said George Symons, CEO of Gridstore. "John brings Gridstore a rare blend of sales and management expertise across today’s most transformative technologies in storage, virtualization, and cloud."

Prior to joining Gridstore, Ferraro held chief executive and sales management roles at a number of innovative and successful software solutions companies. Most recently, he held the position of VP, WW Sales, at Moka 5, where he led the worldwide field and channel sales organization. Prior to that, he served as CEO of InMage Systems, where he was responsible for leading the company during its growth of over 300% in five years. Ferraro also served as CEO of SeeCommerce, EVP of WW Sales for Securant Technologies and SVP of WW sales for Legato Systems.

He earned a B.S in Accounting from the University of Colorado. 

"I am excited to join Gridstore – a true innovator that is transforming the way storage is addressing real-world customer requirements, especially for VM storage requirements," said Ferraro. "IT professionals will no longer accept the traditional one size fits all storage mentality. They are demanding, and rightly so, custom-fit solutions that will enable them to scale capacity, and address the I/O constraints that are impacting their critical applications and VM infrastructures. I look forward to leading the sales and channel teams as we help our customers realize the unique advantages of our solutions that will help them achieve their IT goals and maintain their competitive advantage."