Ctera Said to Expand Headcount by 60% This Year

CTERA Networks Ltd. announced a strategic corporate growth initiative and hiring effort to capture the demand for its Cloud Storage Services Platform.

As part of this initiative, CTERA announced several additions to its management team who will help accelerate market share acquisition.

Highlights of 2014 growth plan include:

• Expanding worldwide headcount by 60%, with the company staffing in all functional areas.
• Continuing its worldwide expansion with broad presence to be distributed across all major territories in the Americas, Europe and AsiaPac.
• Investing in its North American presence with new sales, marketing and technical hires, including major additions to its management team:

 Jeff Denworth has joined SVP marketing. He will report to CEO Liran Eshel and is responsible for extending worldwide marketing platform. He brings more than 15 years of experience, most recently serving as the VP marketing at DataDirect Networks, where he helped drive more than $1 billion of cloud and big storage technology sales. He also has held management positions with Cluster File Systems, Inc. and Dataram Corporation.

 Rani Osnat, VP marketing for the past four years, will assume new responsibilities as VP of strategic marketing and customer experience and will continue to oversee key marketing initiatives.

 Bob Doherty has joined as VP of North America sales. He also will report to CEO and is responsible for managing North American sales operations. He brings more than 20 years of enterprise technology sales and operations experience, with leadership in growth organizations at technology companies such as Compellent (acquired by Dell), Virtual Iron (acquired by Oracle) and AT&T.

“CTERA is in the midst of a tremendous growth as we scale up our company to meet unprecedented demand for our Cloud Storage Services Platform,” said Eshel. “We are honored to welcome Jeff and Bob and all of the new CTERA team members who will accelerate our ability to capture this amazing market opportunity.”

“I am excited to join CTERA as the company prepares for its next stage of growth. The company’s reputation is rivaled only by the overwhelming success they’ve enjoyed as their Cloud Storage Services Platform gains momentum across the market,” said Denworth. “I am excited at the opportunity to build on the strong foundation set by the CTERA team as we enable traditional IT organizations to transform themselves into agile service providers.”

“As more data and applications are accessed through the cloud and organizations look to deploy cost-effective cloud storage solutions, it’s becoming increasingly important for organizations to make smart decisions around storage services, interoperability, security, management and scalability,” said Doherty. “CTERA’s early-mover advantage in this space, coupled with its marquee customer base of Global 500 companies and cloud service providers, positions the company solidly as the ideal platform provider for the cloud era. I look forward to working closely with CTERA’s customers, partners and worldwide team to make CTERA the standard in enterprise cloud storage.”