Victoria Grey CMO, Gridstore

Gridstore, Inc. announced the appointment of Victoria Grey as chief marketing officer.

 As a seasoned industry expert, she has been instrumental in building some of innovative and progressive marketing teams in Silicon Valley, winning accolades and awards for her marketing acumen and creativity. Most recently, she has been named one of CRN’s 2014 Channel Chiefs. This list of the most powerful leaders in the IT channel recognizes those executives directly responsible for driving channel growth within their organization, while evangelizing the importance of the channel throughout the IT Industry.

“I am delighted to welcome Victoria to the executive team as we execute on the next phase of rapid growth and product innovation as the leading provider of software-defined storage optimized for virtualization,” said George Symons, CEO, Gridstore. “She brings Gridstore a rare blend of marketing and management expertise across today’s most transformative technologies in storage, virtualization, and cloud. I look forward to leveraging her vast expertise across all facets of the marketing spectrum.”

Reporting to CEO George Symons, Grey will be responsible for overseeing the planning, strategy and execution of Gridstore’s global marketing and channel initiatives. She will play a role in helping lead the company through its next phase of growth in delivering software-defined storage solutions optimized for Windows servers and Hyper-V.

She has over 25 years’ experience in technology sales and marketing, with a specialty in the data storage business.

“I am thrilled to be joining Gridstore at this critical inflection point,” said Grey. “With their innovative solution to a critical problem in virtualization deployments, as well as a top-notch team driving considerable growth, Gridstore is primed to have a huge impact on the industry.”

She joins Gridstore from Soonr where she was chief marketing officer of WW marketing. While at Soonr she initiated a complete overhaul of the company’s channel program, winning the XCellence Award from CRN’s XChange, and resulting in growth in North American channel partners and sales. Prior to Soonr she was at Nexsan, where she was DVOP of WW corporate and product marketing. While at Nexsan she drove the rebranding of all aspects of the company, driving growth through a network of partners and winning the 2013 Women of the Channel Award.

Before Nexsan Victoria has held senior positions at companies, including Quantum, EMC, Legato, and Apple.