Russell P. Reeder CEO, Infrascale

Infrascale, Inc. appoints tech industry veteran Russell P. Reeder as CEO,

It also makes several new additions to its team, and secures new funding led by existing investors.

Reeder brings more than 25 years of experience to the company along with a history of building and growing technology businesses. He started his career developing and implementing enterprise financial systems and then moved into management to help grow the Oracle applications business. As a CEO, he specializes in leading high-growth, cloud-based and disruptive businesses that marry a customer-centric vision with technology innovation. In addition, he has led successful exits for businesses under his command, including content-on-demand and digital publishing platform LibreDigital (sold to RR Donnelly), and cloud hosting business MediaTemple (sold to GoDaddy).

Company also announced several new hires:

• Brian Kuhn COO,
• Robert Peterson CFO,
• Carolyn Kress chief people officer,
• Lindsay Haun VP of global customer success, and
• Adam Berger VP of global IT and cloud operations.

Current Investors Route 66 Ventures, Inc. and Carrick Capital Partners have committed to support the company’s accelerated growth plans following strong operational and financial performance, and the new additions to the team.

“I am excited by the opportunity to build upon the success that Infrascale has seen to date,” said Reeder. “The company’s technology is recognized by experts as industry-leading, our partner and customer base is solid, and we have a smart, motivated and committed global team that can deliver. It’s the ultimate recipe for success – the right market, people, customers and technology.”

“With its seasoned leadership, strong growth, and leading backup and DR technology delivering comprehensive data protection, Infrascale is well positioned to win in this market,” said Route 66 Ventures founding partner and Infrascale board member. “In the ever more complicated and risky digital landscape, all companies need data protection through backup and DR to protect their businesses, and Infrascale is perfectly positioned and has proven to deliver.”

Infrascale founder and former CEO, Ken Shaw Jr. will continue as an advisor to the company.

“It’s been an honor to take Infrascale from an idea to a company, with thousands of customers, cutting-edge technology and employees that span five continents,” he said. “It has been a truly rewarding experience for me and the time has come for a new leader to take Infrascale through its next phase of growth. I look forward to supporting Russ and the team in the future.“

Infrascale currently protects over 350PB of data for over 70,000 customers and 250,000 devices across 9 private data centers and multiple public cloud providers, including AWS, GCP and Azure.