Molly Brown VP Engineering, Qumulo

Qumulo, Inc. announced two promotions.

Molly Brown has been promoted to VP of engineering, and Karim Fanous, formerly VP of engineering, will be taking on a new role as VP of strategic business operations.

“Customers choose Qumulo because we solve their most challenging storage problems in ways that are far superior to legacy incumbent solutions and we consistently earn glowing reviews on our end to end experience,” said Bill Richter, president and CEO. “Talented engineering leaders, like Karim and Molly, make that happen.  I’m thrilled to see them both expand and elevate their missions at Qumulo.”

Molly Brown brings over two decades’ of experience to this role, leading the product development teams responsible for the company’s hybrid cloud file storage platform. Most recently, she led the development of recently announced machine-learning based performance improvements within Qumulo’s software that enabled game-changing economics for hybrid file storage applications. Prior to joining Qumulo, she spent 15 years at Microsoft within the Windows organizations, working on various storage-related technologies. She drove a number of projects around data caching, data synchronization, and seamless enterprise client interoperability with file servers.

“Our vision for the future of hybrid file storage is crystal clear, and it’s thrilling to lead our world-class engineering teams to bring this vision to life,” she said. “Our team-based, collaborative approach to software development has enabled us to build the world’s best solution for storing, managing and empowering file-based data, and the market is telling us loud and clear that Qumulo is the future of file storage.”

Karim Fanous will take on a new mission as head of strategic business operations with a mission of scaling Qumulo’s business to meet growing global demand. He will continue to lead Qumulo’s customer success organization. He has a background in managing engineering organizations, having spent over a decade managing key product initiatives within Microsoft, including Office 365 and Skype for Business.