Leadership Team
Aditya Fotedar, CIO
Aditya is an innovative, business-led technology and operations executive focused on the effective application of differentiating technologies to fast growing businesses. He spends his time in pursuit of Technologies and process that drive simplicity, velocity and agility in a business. He carries a strong vision and perspectives in these areas for which he has been recognized by the industry. He joins Nexenta as CIO, providing leadership in multiple areas. He brings 18 years of diverse experience from past roles on both the business and technology sides. Prior to Nexenta, Aditya was responsible for Cloud Services, R&D operations and all aspects of IT at Dell Wyse.
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Bill Fuller, VP, Engineering
Bill is an innovative and seasoned engineering leader with deep experience in storage solutions, including SAN, NAS, open source software, and storage interconnect related products and services. He brings over 30 years of storage industry and engineering experience to Nexenta, and is responsible for the ongoing development of NexentaStor, the company’s flagship software defined storage solution, currently in it’s 4th generation. NexentaStor 5 delivers enterprise class storage services for block and file, with the resilience and performance required for Cloud and Enterprise applications, plus comprehensive data management capabilities. Bill has strong technical management experience in investigation, design and product delivery in the areas of software, systems, storage and platforms – with a proven track record of timely product delivery and technical innovation. Bill was also instrumental in early development of RAID and Fibre Channel. He previously held key positions with storage companies like Quest Software, MonoSphere Systems, Nishan Systems, StorageWay Inc, Auspex Systems, and Tandem Computers.
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Rick Hayes, VP, Customer Service
Rick is a seasoned executive in global pre-sales, customer service, support and professional services, with deep experience in data center strategy and transformation, including the use of open source storage technologies. He brings more than 20 years of industry experience to Nexenta. Previously, he was the principal consultant for the data center practice at GlassHouse Technologies where he developed and managed strategic IT projects focusing on data center consolidations and migrations for large enterprises in Energy, Financial Services, and Networking clients. Rick has most recently led global services and field operations at MaXXan and Storage Networks.
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Mark Jordan, VP, GM EMEA
Mark has extensive knowledge of the IT Industry in EMEA with over 30 years experience having held senior management positions with HW, SW and services vendors addressing multiple business segments and channels. Prior to joining Nexenta, he was responsible for leading Dell's Cloud Client Computing business in EMEA and most recently its worldwide Cloud Client Computing sales team. Mark is a driven and passionate leader who is customer centric and has a strong track record in building high performance teams, revenue growth and go to market strategies for new product technologies.
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Hongran F Stone, VP, Business Development and Alliances, Greater China
Hongran has vast experience with startups and the Asia-Pacific market. First by co-creating the Chinese documentary “A Journey to Silicon Valley” broadcasted at CCTV; she has co-authored two books on Innovation and holds numerous worldwide patents. She later served as GM of a China's first generation of e-commerce companies. She was an R&D executive for Revance, a Bay Area startup that had a successful IPO. More recently she has been leading Nexenta's Greater China operations and partner alliances.
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Mavis Yee, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel
Mavis is an experienced strategic attorney and Silicon Valley veteran, widely recognized for her work in global corporate, employment and commercial transactional law matters, venture financings and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. She joined Nexenta in June 2014 and brings over 20 years of legal and administrative expertise to Nexenta. Before joining Nexenta, Mavis was a partner with Nixon Peabody LLP, Cooley LLP and Heller Ehrman/Venture Law Group. During her tenure with these firms, Mavis represented many world class technology clients, including Wyse Technology, as their outside general counsel. At Nexenta, Mavis is responsible for managing legal, human resources and other administrative matters.
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Dmitry Yusupov, Chief Technology Officer and Founder
Dmitry, co-founded Nexenta Systems in 2005 and is currently CTO. He co-created NexentaOS and NexentaStor—the company’s flagship Software-Defined Storage platform - currently in its 5th generation. Dmitry and Alex are also the co-creators of the iSCSI stack accepted into the Linux kernel. This Open-iSCSI project forms the basis of most iSCSI solutions used today, and this experience building enterprise class storage with the Linux kernel encouraged them to create the hybrid open storage operating system, Nexenta Core Platform. Dmitry also leads the team responsible for developing NexentaEdge, a next generation scale out object, block and file solution with ZFS DNA. The first generation of this product, NexentaEdge 1.0, announced in 2015. Prior to Nexenta, Dmitry served as software storage/networking lead engineer director at software startups Neterion and Silverback Systems (acquired by Brocade).
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