Farshid Tabrizi VP Business Development, Skyera

Skyera Inc. named Farshid Tabrizi as VP of business development.

He is responsible for creating, implementing, and managing the company’s strategic relationships and partnerships including OEM accounts and flash suppliers.

 Tabrizi joined Skyera in 2012 as senior director of business development, bringing more than 30 years of experience in the high-tech industry building and successful business development, marketing and engineering organizations. Prior to joining Skyera, he was director of Strategic Business Development for the NAND OEM division of Micron Technology, responsible for the diversification of customers by identifying, engaging and managing high-volume, high-margin opportunities such as Sony, Panasonic, Hitachi, WD, IBM, Facebook and more. Previous executive positions included group director of engineering and GM USB products at Lexar Media.

“Farshid’s extensive experience in product management and business development make him a valuable asset as we look to extend the penetration of our mainstream enterprise solid-state storage systems,” said Radoslav Danilak, CEO, Skyera. “With organizations in the analytics, big data, cloud and virtualization arenas looking to boost their applications’ performance with solid-state storage, we need somebody with the ability to deliver successful business strategies to the marketplace. Farshid’s proven track record in establishing a market presence and driving that presence to profitability is a key attribute in helping our efforts in introducing a new era of storage to enterprises throughout the world.”