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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.

Keith Kitchen leads the finance and operations team at Cloudian, bringing 30 years experience with late stage private and early stage public software companies in Silicon Valley including Nokia-Intellsync and Fortinet-Meru Networks. Keith worked in public accounting with Ernst & Young and also held various financial management positions with Bausch & Lomb. He received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School.

As the CTO for Cloudian Inc., Stobart is responsible for leading the technology team to drive sales and brand awareness of Cloudian and cloud storage solutions, providing education to customers, partners and press and ensuring technical due diligence is adhered to during the sales and deployment processes.
Stobart brings 22 years’ experience in developing technical storage and systems architecture solutions with time served at Nexenta, Dell, Compellent, Hitachi Data Systems, MaXXan, Morse and Woolwich Building society covering all aspects of data storage and management technologies including; SAN, NAS, Object, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, backup, storage networking, capacity planning and performance analysis as well as Cloud computing, Open Systems computing, thin client, data networking and application infrastructure design.
Stobart has held several senior consulting and leadership roles working with some of the largest technology companies in the industry and providing guidance and advice to major commercial organisations globally, on best practises and economic considerations of data storage technology deployment.

Mike leads Cloudian’s global sales team, driving sales strategy, revenue generation, customer engagement, and field activities. He brings extensive experience as a Global Sales Leader with a strong track record. Previously, he served as Global VP of Sales for Hitachi Vantara’s Emerging Solutions, where he drove revenue growth for new technologies. At Pure Storage, Mike led Flashblade’s global sales, significantly expanding its market presence. Most recently, Mike headed Americas sales at Model9, where he achieved substantial growth, culminating in the company’s acquisition by BMC.

Jon leads Cloudian’s WW business development. 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.

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.

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.

Lisa Hodges leads HR and Administration at Cloudian. She is an accomplished HR professional bringing over 20 years of strategic leadership to Silicon Valley companies. She excels in driving business results through collaboration, management, and transformational strategies, particularly in dynamic, fast-paced start-ups. Certified as SHRM-SCP and SPHR, her skills encompass HR strategy and leadership, employee engagement and development, M&A, employment law, and change management. Prior to Cloudian, Lisa has led human resources and people management at various companies including Panzura, Tegile Systems, ExactTarget, and Health Fidelity.