Executive Team

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Michael Tso

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

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Michael Tso

Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder

Michael Tso is co-founder and CEO of Cloudian. Prior to Cloudian, he co-founded and led Gemini Mobile Technologies, a pioneer in wireless messaging, providing mission-critical infrastructure software that today powers services at some of the world’s largest telcos.

At search engine pioneer Inktomi, Michael led engineering for an e-commerce search engine, and designed a network congestion control system for KDDI which later became an industry standard.

At Intel, he led the development of web acceleration technology and collaborated with Nokia on NarrowBand Sockets, commonly known as SmartMessaging, which enabled the world’s first SMS ringtone download service. Michael holds 36 patents. He graduated from MIT with an MS in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, BS in Computer Science, BS in Electrical Engineering, and a minor in Economics.

Jon Ash

Vice President, Strategic Business Development

Jon Ash

Vice President, Strategic Business Development

Jon leads Cloudian’s WW sales and professional services teams. Prior to Cloudian, he led the WW Sales organization at Nexenta, a pioneer in software-defined storage, where he grew the user base from zero to over two thousand customers. Jon has strong experience with direct, OEM and channel sales models and has successfully grown revenue at multiple storage companies both large and small. Jon holds a BSC from Warwick University in the UK.

Sean Coughlin

Vice President, Worldwide Sales

Sean Coughlin

Vice President, Worldwide Sales

As VP of Sales for North America, Sean is responsible for leading the North American and Federal Sales Teams in accelerating growth and adoption of Cloudian’s Object Storage Software platform. Sean brings over 23 years of technology sales experience directing and managing Regional Sales and Channel and Business Development for companies that include SwiftStack, Nexenta, Xsigo Systems, Softek, Hewlett Packard, and Dot Hill Systems.

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Carlo Garbagnati

Vice President, Engineering

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Carlo Garbagnati

Vice President, Engineering

Carlo Garbagnati leads Cloudian’s global Engineering team, with operations in Silicon Valley, Milan, Tokyo, and Beijing. Prior to Cloudian, he spent 25 years leading R&D organizations at companies ranging from early-stage start-ups to larger industry players such as HDS (now Hitachi Vantara), Pivot3, BlueArc, Quantum and Meridian Data. Carlo has driven the development of hybrid cloud, big data analytics, network-attached storage and hyperconverged infrastructure solutions. Carlo holds an M.S.E.E. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. from Northrup University in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

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Fadel Hamed

Vice President, Customer Success

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Fadel Hamed

Vice President, Customer Success

Fadel Hamed is responsible for strategic and tactical delivery of exceptional customer outcomes for Cloudian. As Vice President of Customer Success, Fadel leads all aspects of global technical support and Cloudian programs to drive a customer success culture. Prior to Joining Cloudian, Fadel was Vice President Customer Success for Siemens Healthineers, covering North America. At Siemens, he was responsible for service operational excellence, service quality, and customer advocacy. While at Siemens, Fadel led a global strategy and practice to leverage machine data analytics for predictive support. Fadel was also senior director at NetApp responsible for customer quality and advocacy where he established corporate programs, metrics and goals focused on customer success. Fadel held progressive leadership roles at Roche, Genentech, Amgen and IBM. Fadel has a Doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley.

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Michael Morgan

Chief Financial Officer

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Michael Morgan

Chief Financial Officer

Michael Morgan leads Cloudian’s finance, human resources, adminstration, legal, and operations departments. Morgan brings more than 25 years of experience in managing all aspects of finance and administration for private and publicly held technology companies, building companies from start up through IPO and leading M&A transactions on both the buy and sell sides. Most recently, Morgan served as CFO of Tegile Systems, where he raised several rounds of debt and equity funding, and lead the successful sale of the company to Western Digital. Before Tegile, Morgan was CFO of cloud storage company Panzura, where he established the company’s financial infrastructure and led the company through rapid growth and fundraising. Other prior experience includes finance leadership roles at Model N, Skybox Security, BackWeb Technologies, Talarian Corp. and Enlighten Software Solutions. Morgan began his career at KPMG, LLP, leaving as manager. He is a CPA and holds a BS in Accounting from San Jose State University.

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Jon Toor

Chief Marketing Officer

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Jon Toor

Chief Marketing Officer

Jon Toor leads Cloudian’s inbound and outbound marketing teams. Prior to Cloudian, Toor served as vice president of digital marketing and demand generation at Brocade. He also served as the vice president of marketing at Xsigo Systems where he led the outbound marketing team, a group he led from company launch until the company acquisition by Oracle. Prior to Xsigo, he served at ONStor as vice president of marketing. Toor holds an MBA, bachelor of science in mechanical engineering, and a bachelor of arts in economics all from Stanford University.

Leadership Team

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Bharat Boddu

Vice President, Engineering

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Bharat Boddu

Vice President, Engineering

Bharatendra (Bharat) Boddu leads Cloudian’s Hyperstore Engineering group. As Vice President of Engineering, Bharat is responsible for driving the technology innovation, architecture, core product development, new applications and DevOp Tools. Prior to joining Cloudian, he held leadership role at Gemini Mobile Technologies developing mission-critical infrastructure software. Bharat’s expertise include Distributed Systems and Databases. He holds a MS in Software Engineering from San Jose State University.

Carsten Graf

Vice President, Sales - EMEA

Carsten Graf

Vice President, Sales - EMEA

Carsten leads the EMEA sales team at Cloudian. Before Cloudian, he was a Managing Director of Code42, a leading Enterprise Data Protection company, running their Central Europe team. Carsten also worked a long time at Verizon Business, where he was head of the Security sales team. Carsten holds a Bachelor of Administration and Engineering from the Hochschule of Mannheim and MBA from the University of St. Thomas (Texas).

Tetsuaki Goto

Vice President, Technical Support

Tetsuaki Goto

Vice President, Technical Support

Tetsuaki Goto leads Cloudian’s Technical Support group and is responsible for customer satisfaction and success. As Vice President of Technical Support, Tetsuaki leads all aspects of global technical support delivery and operations ensuring outstanding service quality and customer satisfaction. Prior to joining Cloudian, Tetsuaki held support leadership roles at Progress Software, Oracle, and BEA Systems. Tetsuaki holds a Master degree in Management of Technology from Tokyo Institute of Technology.

Laura Kelly

Vice President, Corporate Marketing

Laura Kelly

Vice President, Corporate Marketing

As VP of Corporate Marketing at Cloudian, Laura’s team encompasses Creative and Brand, Marketing Ops, Inside Sales, Web, Demand Gen, and Events. With over 20 years of experience in high tech marketing, Laura has covered all facets of the marketing spectrum, driving strategy and execution for a variety of companies in Silicon Valley. Prior to Cloudian, Laura held marketing leadership roles at a startups including Panzura, a multi-cloud data management startup, Axcient, a cloud-based backup and DR startup, and Riverbed, a provider of WAN optimization solutions. Previous companies also include Zone Labs, Exodus Communications, Walt Disney, Miramax, and Warner Brothers.

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James Wright

Senior Director, Asia Pacific and Japan

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James Wright

Senior Director, Asia Pacific and Japan

James is the Sr. Director, APAC and Japan for Cloudian, responsible for leading the growth of the business with service providers and end users alike.

Previously he was the ANZ Sales Director for Nutanix and responsible for scaling the business and leading the sales team. Prior to Nutanix he was one of the founding employees at Pure Storage ANZ, sat on the Board for SIF Association, and held leadership positions at IBM, BenQ, and Mitsubishi Electric.