WOODLAND HILLS, Calif., Aug. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Nexsan Technologies, the leader in innovative storage solutions, today named storage and telecommunication industries veteran Philip Black as its CEO. With more than 25 years of leadership experience, Black joins the company from LightSand Communications, where he served as CEO of the fabric extension solutions provider since 2001.
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Black's hiring closely follows a recent executive expansion with the announcement of industry veterans Frank Patterson, as vice president of global supply chain, and Steve Freeman, as director of engineering. The two add an additional 45 years of combined experience in the high-tech industry to Nexsan's executive ranks.
"I look forward to the continuation -- and acceleration -- of Nexsan's leadership in the network storage space," said Black. "Nexsan has long been known as a company with exciting products, excellent management and satisfied customers. I will enjoy the challenge of further pushing the threshold of success while maintaining the high standards that everyone expects from Nexsan."
Prior to LightSand, Black was a managing partner at the storage consulting firm IN_Fusion, the CEO of storage systems manufacturer Box Hill/Dot Hill and the founder and CEO of telecommunications equipment provider Tekelec. He took Dot Hill public in 1997 and Tekelec public in 1986. Black has also been a key proponent behind SNIA's Information Lifecycle Management Initiative and currently serves as a co-chair of the Data Protection Initiative under SNIA's Data Management Forum.
Black takes the lead of a company best known for its InfiniSAN line of disk-based storage solutions, which delivers the latest in form and function now. Among the company's award-winning product line is the entry level ATAbaby(TM), which utilizes the latest advancements in ATA technology to help expand storage capacity, improve business continuance and increase ROI; the ATAboy2(TM), which provides "next generation" performance, reliability and high data availability for the most demanding storage and data-delivery applications; and the ATABeast(TM), the first true online disk vault that delivers industry-leading features with unparalleled density and security at a TCO less than tape.
About Nexsan Technologies
Nexsan Technologies, headquartered in Woodland Hills, Calif., is the leader in innovative and correct cost storage solutions. The company creates and delivers award-winning, storage-centric hardware and application-based solutions worldwide through one of the most diverse and established networks of professionals in the storage industry. Next generation Nexsan storage products are designed for corporate, graphics, medical imaging, animation and special effects, real time/event monitored/ online/off site storage, Internet delivered content, digital film and video, financial on-line transaction data,
music and voice, video security and document imaging. For more information, please see the company's website at http://www.nexsan.com/.
CONTACT: Mark Smith of JPR Communications, +1-818-386-0403, marks@jprcom.com, for Nexsan Technologies; or Brendan Kinkade, Vice President of Marketing of Nexsan Technologies, +1-818-715-9111, ext. 1002, brendan@nexsan.com
Web site: http://www.nexsan.com/
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