Craig Nelson SVP of Global Sales, Alluxio

Alluxio, Inc. appointed Craig Nelson as SVP of global sales.

It also announced the first dedicated SVP, business development and marketing role led by John Mracek, who formerly also headed sales.

The strengthening of firm’s go-to-market team is the result of rapid demand for its Data Orchestration Platform that enables enterprises to scale analytics workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

“We have a tremendous opportunity to accelerate our company growth through both direct customer engagements and strategic partnerships around the globe, and we’re excited to have Craig and John both on our leadership team bolstering go-to-market activity,” said Haoyuan Li, founder and CEO. “Craig has extensive experience and an impressive track record building high performing sales organizations and John has done an excellent job leading both our combined sales and marketing. He will now focus on further developing invaluable relationships with key partners serving data intensive companies worldwide.“

Craig comes to Alluxio with more than 20 years in executive management positions in software and technology companies around the globe with expat posts in France, Taiwan and Japan. Previously, he was CRO for FirstWave, in network monitoring and cybersecurity solutions HQ in Sydney, Australia. He was the CEO of Opmantek Software, an open source software company which was acquired by FirstWave in January 2022. He joined Opmantek Software from Ixia, which was acquired by Keysight Systems in 2017 for $1.6 billion. At Ixia, he ran a global sales organization with an annual revenue run rate of $135 million+ as the VP WW enterprise sales.

“I join Alluxio at a time of great global achievement where businesses have come to recognize the need for better ways to access data in large-scale analytics and AI/ML applications, resulting in top tier customers from the Fortune 5 to 500; a passionate and committed open source community; and best in class venture backers,” he said. “I look forward to working with the team to build on all of their existing success.”