Peter Gadd VP International Sales, Vast Data

VAST Data, Ltd. appointed 3 industry leaders to its executive team.

The hirings of Peter Gadd, VP of international sales, David Noy, VP of product management and Daniel Bounds, VP marketing will play critical roles in supporting the company’s international expansion, the development of the company’s Universal Storage platform and increasing firm’s overall market awareness as the storage platform for next gen, app-centric data centers.

Peter Gadd will be tasked with expanding VAST’s team across EMEA and AsiaPac to accelerate international growth. He previously spent more than a decade at EMC building multiple enterprise businesses within the UK and growing the global system integrator organization across EMEA. Most recently, he served as VP for core markets at Pure Storage in EMEA, where he spent 7 years helping grow the business to several hundred million dollars in revenue while building a team of more than two hundred to support clients across the region.

David Noy will lead all product management initiatives including the development of the Universal Storage platform roadmap. He has worked in the storage industry for the past 25 years, including executive leadership roles at Veritas, NetApp and EMC where he oversaw over 10x growth for the EMC Isilon business in a 5 year period. Most recently, at Cohesity he helped drive the relationship with Amazon to take on-premise DataPlatform and transform it into the first Data Management as a Service offering on Amazon AWS (DMaaS).

Daniel Bounds, a 20 year veteran of the global technology industry, will lead the global marketing group responsible for building and strengthening awareness of the company’s brand and increasing demand for its Universal Storage products. He has driven marketing efforts across a range of organizations including Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Cisco Systems and Dell EMC. Most recently at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), he led marketing and business development for the data center CPU business introducing the EPYC brand and propelling AMD towards double-digit share within the first 2 years of market introduction.

“We have continued to see unprecedented demand for our Universal Storage platform amid this global pandemic, further validating our incredible offering. To ensure a continuation of this momentum, we are making smart investments in our leadership team, adding Peter, David and Daniel who each bring success from their respective and diverse backgrounds,” said Renen Hallak, founder and CEO. “Our strong company culture defines who we are and contributes to our amazing success. I’m confident that the industry knowledge and experience this group brings, along with their passion, will help ensure we continue on our trajectory in making VAST an industry standard.”

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