Executive Profiles
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ROBERT FERNANDER
President & CEO
Bob is a proven technology and business leader with over 25 years of experience in building and managing both start-up and established organizations. During his tenure as CEO of Surgient Networks and StoredIQ, Bob raised over $100M in outside funds and completed a major resale partnership with EMC. As vice president North America commercial business for Compaq, Bob oversaw a ten point market-share gain in enterprise server, storage and networking products, including products that were designed by current members of the Pivot3 technology team.
Earlier in his career, Bob helped Sun Microsystems achieve a leading position in servers and storage revenues by growing area sales to over a billion dollars. Bob is a former Army Ranger and holds a BA degree from Indiana University and an MBA degree from the University of Indianapolis. |
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LEE CASWELL
Founder & Chief Marketing Officer
Lee is an experienced marketing executive in the storage, networking, and digital video markets. Prior to founding Pivot3, Lee was EVP Marketing and Business Development at VMware and held a series of senior management roles at Adaptec (ADPT) ending as VP and General Manager of Adaptec's $350M Storage Solutions Group.
Prior to Adaptec, Lee was VP Sales and Marketing at Parallax Graphics which introduced the first real-time video capture products for the video surveillance market. He spent the first five years of his career in management programs at GE. Lee has a BA from Carleton College and an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College. |
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BILL GALLOWAY
Founder & Chief Technology Officer
Bill is a recognized thought leader in the storage industry. He is named on 24 storage related patents and has been actively involved in storage technologies and standards such as SAS, SATA, SCSI, Fibre Channel, and RAID. Prior to Pivot3, Bill was co-founder of BREA Technologies, Inc., a successful private storage technology company.
Prior to BREA, he worked for many years at Compaq Computer Corp. as a Principal Member of the Technical Staff where he architected and developed many breakthrough products for storage hardware and software. Bill has over twenty years of product development experience in storage and I/O technology at both public and private companies. |
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MARK MODICA
Chief Commercial Officer
Mark is an experienced financial executive with broad company lifecycle experience at both start-up and mature companies. Prior to Pivot3, Mark held CFO roles at DigitalBridge Communications, StoredIQ and was the founder and CEO of CyberCFO, a venture-backed firm providing financial services to emerging growth companies and Venture Funds. He started his career at Deloitte and Touche.
Mark is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Masters degree in Accounting from Northeastern's Graduate School of Professional Accounting and an undergraduate degree from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. |
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DIETER KONDEK
Vice President Sales; Europe, Middle East & Africa
Dieter Kondek is an experienced sales executive with more than 30 years of experience in the technology market. Dieter brings physical security experience from his roles as Chief Operating Officer of Dallmeier Electronics and President and CEO of Agent Video Intelligence. Dieter also has substantial IT sales experience and has held leadership positions at Computer 2000 Group, Dell Computer and IBM. |
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