Susan Scheer Aoki EVP Product Operations, Violin Systems

Violin Systems LLC appointed Susan Scheer Aoki as its new EVP, product operations.

 
She has already led company’s professional services and global support teams that provide customers a seemless path to all flash architectures for their mission critical environments, having served the company as its SVP of customer operations. With this promotion, she will also oversee R&D with professional services and global support to deliver compelling products, services, and support experiences for customers to achieve their business and technical objectives.
 
“Susan is a passionate leader and a tireless customer advocate, able to translate customer insights into product leadership,” said Ebrahim Abbasi, CEO. “Our investment in R&D requires investment in talent like Susan’s in order to deliver the next generation of availability, capacity and performance to the industry.”
 
“This is an important time for Violin Systems, with new innovation, new services for Fortune 100 customers, and new avenues to profitability,” said Scheer Aoki. “I look forward to building on Violin’s rich innovation and product leadership in high performance with consistent low latency, and our commitment to customers to power what’s next.“
 
She has two decades of experience in executive management with positions across the product development lifecycle and customer success. Key positions include VP, solutions and ITaaS and VP, personalized enterprise services at NetApp. She also held VP, engineering, VP, product management, and VP, marketing roles focused on networking and cloud management products and solutions at Cisco Systems.
 
She has received multiple awards for her industry leadership and product achievements, including Most Powerful Women in Technology, Most Powerful and Influential Women of California, Best of Brand, and Product of the Year.