Costa Hasapopoulos Chief Field Technical Officer, Pavilion

Pavilion Data Systems, Inc. announced 3 additions to its leadership team.

Chris McBride joined the team in September as chief revenue officer. He brings a wealth of sales and industry experience to the role with prior positions including leading global sales teams at McData (IPO), BlueArc (acquired by HDS), and hybrid NVMe flash start-up Coho Data. Most recently he served as VP of sales at Druva. His experience in helping enterprises leverage disruptive technologies in the systems, storage, and software sectors both on-premise and in the cloud is a complement to Pavilion’s role in changing next generation data centers.

“Joining Pavilion at this stage of the company’s maturity enables me to utilize my experience accelerating go to market results by leveraging Pavilion’s key technology advantages to expand customer penetration and revenue attainment,” he said. “I’m honored and energized to be joining the Pavilion team.”

“Adding Chris to our executive team provides additional bandwidth and horsepower to our go to market organization which will support our accelerating growth trajectory,” said Gurpreet Singh, CEO.

David Black joined the team in June as VP of finance and also leads human resources efforts. he brings key functional expertise, having served as CFO of Advantel Networks, and VP of finance for Gridiron.

“Being part of the Pavilion mission to ‘make the impossible possible’ for customers by offering an unmatched technology solution, is truly invigorating,” he said. “I look forward to bringing additional financial functional expertise to Pavilion as the company continues to expand and grow its footprint within data centers.”

“With Pavilion continuing to expand its customer footprint and its strategic and channel partner programs, having a functional expert dedicated to this function was a natural step in Pavilion’s leadership expansion,” said Singh.

Costa Hasapopoulos joined the team in the spring as chief field technical officer serving as the bridge between technical transformation and business value creation. He also serves as WW VP business development responsible for expanding strategic relationships with industry partners. He brings a background, including serving as SVP sales at Sungard, president at Equus, VP WW sales at IBM, and VP solutions and products and CTO for Hitachi Data Systems.

“Before joining Pavilion, I did a deep dive with my extensive network of peers and customers and shared Pavilion’s unique architecture and the truly unbelievable performance numbers being posted by Pavilion,” he said. “The answers I received were a most resounding affirmation to the strength of the product and the overall company strategy and I’m thrilled to be part of the team bringing the capabilities of the Pavilion HFA to market.“

“Costa brings deep industry relationships forged over a successful career that will join forces with our leadership team as we accelerate the industry’s move to NVMe-oF as it delivers the performance of DAS with the benefits of shared storage,” said Singh.

These three people, along with Amy Love, former CMO at Violin Memory and interim CMO NetApp, who joined Pavilion as chief marketing officer in January 2020, are part of Pavilion’s expanding executive team focused on accelerating the company’s go-to-market strategy efforts.