Steve Querner VP North America Sales, Violin Memory

Violin Memory, Inc. announced that Steve Querner has joined the company as VP, North America sales.

He joins Violin Memory from Microsoft where he spent the past four years as VP sales managing the StorSimple sales organization following Microsoft’s acquisition in 2011. Prior to that, he spent four years as the North American storage sales leader with IBM through its acquisition of XIV in 2007, where he led the sales team in the fastest growing segment within the IBM storage division. His storage sales leadership also includes roles at EMC as VP, AsiaPac sales and WW storage networking sales for Cisco.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Delaware and an MBA from Texas A&M University.

“I’m very excited to join Violin and to have the opportunity to lead a sales effort where we are partnering with some of the largest, most innovative companies just as they are transforming their data centers from disk to flash,” said Querner. “Violin’s 10-year history of designing industry leading all-flash storage, and now offering a Flash Storage Platform that delivers the data protection and performance requirements for primary storage enables us to deliver a unique value proposition to IT managers in companies across multiple industries.”

In his new role, Steve will report to SVP Said Ouissal, and be responsible for driving sales across all regions of North America.

“With Steve’s demonstrated track record in driving storage sales I am excited to have him engage with our existing customers in addition to selling Violin’s industry-leading Flash Storage Platform to new enterprises who share the vision of transforming their data centers from disk to flash, so they can harness the power of data to make their companies more innovative and profitable,” Ouissal said