Steve Velardi VP WW Sales, Maxta

(Yesterday, we publish an old news about Velardi announcing its position at Vello Systems. Sorry to everyone concerned by the subject. Here is his more recent nomination. Editor)

Maxta, Inc. has appointed storage, networking and virtualization industry veteran Steven Velardi as its VP of WW sales.

He is responsible for building and leading the company’s channel and sales programs for its Maxta Storage Platform (MSxP).

Velardi reports to company CEO Yoram Novick.

He has been instrumental in helping technology companies develop sales plans and in scaling their businesses by assembling and leading sales teams.

He comes to Maxta from Vello Systems, where he held a VP WW sales position and helped accelerate its move into the SDN space. He has previously held VP positions at Actona (purchased by Cisco), Powerfile (purchased by HLDS) and Infineta Systems (purchased by Riverbed), as well as various management roles at companies such as EMC, Veritas Software, Cisco Systems and IPL Systems.

He received his B.S. at University of Rhode Island, College of Business Administration.

“We have worked hard to develop the ideal storage solution for a wide range of applications and industries and established a customer base that benefits from Maxta’s MxSP,” said Novick. “Steve has a proven track record of developing and executing channel and sales programs for enterprise storage companies and I’m confident that his experience and knowledge of the market will propel the company into its next phase of growth, increasing our partner base and accelerating revenue growth as we continue to roll out MxSP worldwide.”