Rick Dudson EMEA Director Sales EMEA, StorPool

StorPool, vendor of distributed, software-defined storage, appointed Rick Dudson as a director of sales EMEA.

 He will be responsible for building and developing sales throughout the region, leading all of the sales initiatives to achieve this. He brings over 25 years experience in the sales and marketing of storage products to distributors, resellers, SI’s and OEM’s. Prior to joining StorPool he was director of sales at Infortrend Europe and has also held positions at Hitachi Europe and TEAC.

“We are extremely excited and pleased to have Rick on board to head up our Sales efforts in EMEA. He brings extensive experience of the storage industry, coupled with a stellar track record in achieving growth,” said Boyan Ivanov, co-founder and CEO, StorPool. “He will definitely help us scale our business to the next level and has already started delivering on this.”

“This is a very exciting time to be joining StorPool. Software-defined storage is rapidly becoming accepted and implemented as a highly cost effective and reliable alternative to both traditional SAN storage and flash arrays. StorPool is a leading player in this field, their products provide high reliability, superior performance, seamless scalability, substantial reductions in the TCO and deliver significant increases on ROI,” commented Dudson. “We are now fully focused upon building on our successes to date, growing our market share and building and developing our channel.“