Pete Zaballos CMO, Qumulo

Qumulo, Inc. appointed Peter Zaballos as CMO.

He is a veteran marketing executive with experience scaling high growth SaaS and cloud companies through innovative and successful go-to-market strategies. In his new role, he will be responsible for leading global marketing.

Since inception, Qumulo has demonstrated momentum, growth and customer traction through product innovation. Today, hundreds of enterprise customers depend on Qumulo for modern, scalable and high performance file storage that spans the data center and the cloud.

Zaballos was tapped for his marketing innovation and proven track record with high growth companies as they scale. His business insight, go-to-market expertise and technology industry experience will further elevate the Qumulo brand.

“With our aggressive growth plans, it was critical that we brought a marketing leader on board who had the right experience in category creation and market disruption,” said Bill Richter, CEO. “I am thrilled to say that we have found that in Pete. He brings just the right experience at a time of high growth and rapid evolution, and we couldn’t be more excited for what’s to come.”

Zaballos comes to Qumulo with more than 25 years of experience leading marketing organizations at disruptive, high growth technology companies who were recognized for creating new market categories. Prior to Qumulo, he served as CMO of SPS Commerce, a publicly-traded pioneer of cloud-based retail supply chain platforms, where he helped double the company’s revenue.

“In my career, I have been most at home among a group of people with a vision to change an industry,” he said. “Qumulo is the perfect combination of groundbreaking technology, a CEO, co-founders, and leadership team who share a vision for what’s possible, and the opportunity to create a new market category. The company is nothing but bold and ambitious, seeking to change the very nature of enterprise storage, and I look forward to what we can all make possible together.“

Qumulo File Fabric (QF2) is an universal-scale file storage system. It was designed to meet all requirements for scale. It runs in the data center and the public cloud, and can scale to billions of files. It handles small files as efficiently as large ones. QF2’s analytics let administrators drill down to the file level, get answers and solve problems in real-time. With QF2, enterprise customers have the freedom to store, manage and access their file-based data in any operating environment, at petabyte and global scale.