Ute Gregorius EMEA VP of Strategic Sales, Excelero

Excelero, Inc. announced the appointment of Ute Gregorius as VP of strategic sales for EMEA.

With more than 20 years of experience in enterprise storage sales, she is responsible for executing strategic customer and channel initiatives to drive growth and expand market opportunities across EMEA for company’s software-defined block storage solution NVMesh.

She reports to CEO and co-founder Lior Gal, himself actively involved in growing and managing relations with worldwide customer base.

An sales executive with a track record of driving customer success with innovative storage technologies, Gregorius joins Excelero from HGST, a Western Digital brand, where she served as senior director of sales. Prior to this, she held a number of sales roles at SanDisk, which she had joined following the company’s acquisition of Fusion-io in 2014, and Western Digital, which acquired SanDisk in 2016. During her four-year tenure at Fusion-io, she was instrumental in establishing and growing the EMEA business and leading the enterprise storage solution team in the region. She started her sales career at EMC.

In her new role, he will focus on strengthening Excelero’s relationship with its existing partner and customer base in addition to creating new business opportunities and establishing an ecosystem of customers, channel and technology partners and strategic alliances across EMEA.

“Ute brings a wealth of sales and management experience to our organization and we are delighted to add her firepower behind our EMEA efforts,” said Gal. “She is joining us at a pivotal time as we continue to grow and expand in EMEA.”

On her appointment, Gregorius said: “With Excelero, I am following the flash technology path that I started on many years ago. The company’s ground-breaking technology combines flash with software-defined storage to create real value for customers. With just one year under its belt, Excelero is making huge strides in sectors as varied as high-performance computing, hyperscale web and cloud, and media and entertainment.”