Robert Triendl SVP Global Sales, Marketing and Field Services, DDN

DataDirect Networks, Inc. (DDN) announced the promotion of Robert Triendl to SVP of global sales, marketing and field services.

Leveraging his more than eight years of experience leading DDN’s AsiaPac, European and Japanese markets, he will now focus on accelerating the worldwide adoption of DDN’s end-to-end storage solutions, which enable organisations to speed time to discovery from their data, on premises and in the cloud.
 
“Having successfully built and led teams across various parts of the world, including Europe, AsiaPac and Japan, Robert is a demonstrated strategic leader with deep technical know-how, an uncompromising focus on customer satisfaction, and a keen ability to anticipate market changes,” said Alex Bouzari, CEO and co-founder. “Organisations are increasingly looking for end-to-end, cloud and open source enabled solutions to their real time business intelligence and data management challenges. These new trends, while disruptive to many companies, are creating significant opportunities for DDN, and Robert will accelerate our growth in the scalable, high performance data markets where DDN has been a leader for more than a decade.“

Triendl will drive the strategic growth, profitability and innovation he has delivered in Asia and Europe into the company’s worldwide footprint. He will be responsible for DDN’s global sales, marketing, product marketing and product management, field services and support functions.
 
“I am very pleased to welcome Robert to his new leadership role for DDN’s global sales, marketing, product marketing, product management, field services and support functions,” said Paul Bloch, president and co-founder. “Robert’s keen sense of strategic execution and deep product knowledge, combined with his unwavering commitment to strong customer and partner relationships, will be powerful assets as we take DDN to its next levels of success and growth.”
 
“DDN has a long history of technological innovation, a great team and a phenomenal market opportunity,” said Triendl. “I am excited to help realize what I believe is tremendous potential to extend our unmatched delivery of performance and capacity at scale – far beyond what most can even imagine.”