Henri Richard, Board’s Advisory, Pliops

Pliops announced that Henri Richard has joined its advisory board.

With a track record of achieving results, he brings with him decades of experience leading teams and growing revenue for prominent storage and semiconductor companies. Most recently, he served as EVP of WW field and customer operations at NetApp, where he managed customer, partner and ecosystem relationships.

In his role as an advisor, he will focus on expanding engagement with customers, partners, analysts and executive leadership among top cloud, server, storage and software companies.

Having recently announced that its Storage Processor has been tested and evaluated by more than 10 tier-one cloud and enterprise companies, the firm is in an expansion phase that encompasses both its team and industry reach.

“Pliops accelerators are to storage efficiency what GPUs are to AI and ML,” said Richard. “With this groundbreaking technology, PlIO/s is tackling one of the greatest challenges the storage industry faces today – scalability of performance in a world of increasingly large datasets. I look forward to helping them find new opportunities for growth.”

Pliops is simplifying storage, management and analysis by removing bottlenecks and inefficiencies accumulated over decades. Its Storage Processor enables cloud and enterprise customers to access data up to 1,000x faster, using a fraction of traditional computational load and power. By achieving this performance with low infrastructure cost, the company enables data intensive technology, databases, storage systems, analytics and ML platforms to scale to reach their potential. With this new class of processor, it solves challenges inherent in many critical industry trends such as explosive data growth, compute-storage disaggregation, SDS, DPU integration and the decline of Moore’s Law.

Over the past 40 years, Richard has held various senior management positions with IT companies, including serving as VP of EMEA strategic accounts for Seagate Technology. After moving to the US in the late ’90s, he acted as VP, sales and support WW distribution and e-business for IBM Technology Group, and was a member of IBM’s top 300 executives group. He also served as SVP, chief sales and marketing officer, Freescale Semiconductor, and led WW OEM sales at SanDisk Corporation until the sale of the company to Western Digital.

His academic credentials include a master’s program in sciences and physics from the University Paris Jussieu, and he is a sports car racing driver.

“I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Henri in a professional capacity for years,” noted Steve Fingerhut, president and chief business officer. “Having Henri’s active support, as well as his vote of confidence, by joining our advisory board is extremely exciting. As we shift gears to expand to address surging customer demand, we couldn’t ask for a more qualified person to help drive us forward.“

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