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Management Team
The Compellent management team includes distinguished network storage industry veterans. With years of experience in all senior management areas, and having founded and brought other companies through financing, product development, product launch, and beyond profitability, the team is poised to create its biggest success yet with Compellent.
Phil Soran, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Founder
Over the past 20 years, Phil has earned a reputation for developing and managing highly motivated teams in both small and large business environments. As the co-founder, president, and chief executive officer of XIOtech Corporation, Phil led the company from initial financing, through development and initial product shipments, to an acquisition by Seagate Technology for $360 million. Prior to XIOtech, Phil was an executive vice president at Prodea Software and held a variety of management, sales, marketing, and technical positions with IBM.
As president and chief executive officer for Compellent, Phil has established a clear vision for the future and fostered a positive-aggressive culture which allows every employee to contribute to Compellent's growth and success.
John Guider, Chief Operating Officer and Founder
John brings over 35 years of experience to Compellent, with a distinguished career in product development and manufacturing operations. Prior to starting Compellent, John co-founded and served as chief operating officer at XIOtech Corporation, where he was responsible for the development and manufacturing of the industry's first centralized, virtualized Storage Area Network (SAN). Before XIOtech, John was a co-founder, chief technology officer, and senior vice president of product development at Tricord Systems, director of hardware development at Star Technologies, and held various management and technical positions with Sperry Corporation.
Overseeing engineering and manufacturing operations for Compellent, John and his engineering team have optimized Compellent's supply chain to design, build, deliver, and support solutions efficiently and profitably, while maintaining flexibility to adapt and scale to future demand.
Larry Aszmann, Chief Technology Officer and Founder
Leading the development of Compellent's storage architecture, Larry provides 36 years of continual computer industry innovation. With past assignments as a software engineer, system architect, manager, director, vice president, and CTO, Larry's depth of experience spans mainframes through today's open-systems with a consistent emphasis on storage systems. As the co-founder and chief technology officer of XIOtech Corporation, Larry developed the storage virtualization architecture and the underlying software that formed the cornerstone of the industry's first centralized, virtualized SAN. Prior to XIOtech, Larry was the director of intelligent I/O subsystems at Tricord Systems, chief software architect at Star Technologies, and held various storage-related technology positions with Technalysis Corporation and Control Data Corporation.
Larry has found ways to overcome the limitations of past storage architectures by making the most of standardized, available technologies, and enabling key functionality through software innovation.
Sue Suter, Chief Financial Officer
Sue brings over 20 years of business experience at publicly and privately held technology companies to Compellent. Her public company experience includes Apertus Technologies/Lee Data (NASDAQ), a computer controller company, where she was CFO, and at Nicolet Instruments (NASDAQ), a high-tech instrumentation company. Sue also held the CFO role at XIOtech Corporation from the company's inception through the post-acquisition by Seagate. Prior to her operational roles, Sue worked at Grant Thornton, an international public accounting firm. Her financial experience spans mergers and acquisitions, private placement financings, debt restructuring, finance, and operations. Sue is a certified public accountant.
In her role as chief financial officer, Sue oversees Compellent's financial, contractual and personnel related activities.
Dennis R. Johnson, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Dennis contributes further depth in executive leadership and a 20 year track record for building loyal, high performance teams that consistently achieve aggressive revenue, growth and profitability targets. He has guided nine companies to profitability across multiple segments of the technology industry, including hardware manufacturers, value added resellers, service bureaus, and software solutions. As EVP of Sales for XIOtech, revenue increased from $5M to a run rate of $100M in just 2 years. During his tenure as President and CEO of XATA, the organization achieved INC's List of 100 Fastest Growing Companies and led an IPO for a listing on NASDAQ. Dennis also brings extensive channel management experience, having deployed both direct and indirect distribution models for numerous technology providers and was a member of the executive management team for two leading computer resellers.
Heading up sales and marketing for Compellent, Dennis has built a team of senior professionals, who bring the best practices and lessons learned from their experiences at Cisco, Gartner Group, Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft, Nishan Systems, Storage Networks and StorageTek to Compellent's channel-focused distribution model. This team is responsible for securing and managing Compellent's select network of business partners and providing them with the programs and resources to grow and support their business.
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