QUANTUM CORPORATION - Key Persons
Brian Cabrera - Chief Compliance Officer, Chief Legal Officer
Job Titles:
- Chief Compliance Officer
- General Counsel
Brian joined Quantum in April 2021 as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. He is a seasoned Executive and General Counsel who brings over 25 years of legal experience to our organization. A senior tech-industry executive from Silicon Valley, Brian recently served as Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Northern California Federal prosecutor's office. Prior to that appointment, Brian was the Senior Vice President & General Counsel for NVIDIA, a Fortune 500 company, where he was responsible for legal, compliance, cybersecurity, physical security, and governmental and regulatory matters. With a background in software and technology, he has held several notable positions at industry-leading companies, including Synopsys, Inc., Callidus Software, PeopleSoft, Netscape Communications, and Silicon Graphics, bringing a breadth of knowledge to support Quantum's future growth.
Brian has been a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Advisory Committee, as well as President and Executive Committee member of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. He is a Senior Fellow with the American Leadership Forum - Silicon Valley, has been a guest lecturer at Stanford Law School, and is on the Dean's Committee on Legal Education at USC Law. Brian holds both a Bachelor's and Master's degree from the University of Southern California, as well as a Juris Doctorate from the USC School of Law.
Job Titles:
- Chief Development Officer
Brian Pawlowski joined Quantum in December 2020 as Chief Development Officer. Brian is a distinguished technologist with over 35 years of experience in building technologies and leading teams at global technology companies, such as Sun Microsystems, NetApp, and Pure Storage. Brian previously served as vice president and chief architect at Pure Storage, where he focused on improving user experience for their all-flash storage platform. He also served as CTO at storage pioneer NetApp, where he joined as employee #18.
Brian began his career as a software engineer for several well-known technology companies, including Sun, where he drove technical analysis on alternate file system technologies. Brian served on the Board of Trustees for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and was a Board member at the Linux Foundation. Brian studied computer science at Arizona State University and studied physics at the University of Texas at Austin and MIT.
Job Titles:
- Technical Director, Advanced Projects
Don joined Quantum in 2006 as part of its acquisition of ADIC. Don is responsible for architecture and design of Quantum products initiated by the Advanced Projects team, with whom he is currently associated.
Don is well-versed in storage and networking technology and has served in both engineering and product management roles at Quantum. Don's past projects include designing and implementing campus-area networks, automated tape storage libraries, error recovery algorithms for advanced tape storage devices and proofs-of-concept involving storage technology such as object-based file systems, erasure coding, NVMe-based storage systems, RAID and erasure coding. Don has produced patents in several areas including virtual tape storage, data deduplication, file systems, data protection (including erasure coding), tiered storage and solid-state drive technology. Don holds a Master's Degree in Mathematics and a Bachelor's Degree in Physics, both from the University of New Mexico.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Advanced Engineering
Greg Wade joined Quantum in August of 2011 with the acquisition of Pancetera Software. Greg and his team are responsible for incubating new product ideas and bringing them to market. Their charter is to increase market share and develop new market opportunities through innovation.
Greg is an experienced executive with more than 30 years of experience in data storage and storage startups. Prior to joining Quantum, he was founder and Vice President of Engineering of Pancetera Software a storage startup focused on Virtual Machine backup. He was an early employee of both Legato Systems and Data Domain where he held various engineering and leadership positions. He holds a BSCS degree from San Jose State University and a Master's degree in Engineering Management and Leadership from Santa Clara University.
Jamie Lerner - CEO, Chairman, President
Job Titles:
- Chairman
- Chairman of the Board
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Contact the Board
- President
Jamie Lerner joined Quantum in July 2018 as Chief Executive Officer and President. Jamie is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the business while leading Quantum's multi-pronged transformation initiatives to drive profitability, growth and innovation.
Jamie is a seasoned executive, with more than 25 years of experience developing innovative technology portfolios and leading large, high-performing organizations. Prior to Quantum, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Pivot3 a leader in hyper converged infrastructure. At Pivot3, Lerner was responsible for field sales, technical support, professional services, supply chain and operations. Before joining Pivot3, Lerner held the position of President, Cloud Systems and Solutions, at Seagate Technology, where he was responsible for Seagate's growth initiatives in cloud computing. Prior to Seagate, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group at Cisco. He also was Founder, President, and CEO of CITTIO Inc., an enterprise system monitoring software company; Senior Software Architect and Product Manager at Platinum Technology (acquired by CA); and, a Senior Consultant at Andersen Consulting. Jamie holds a bachelor's degree in quantitative economics and decision sciences from the University of California, San Diego.
Job Titles:
- Senior Director of Software Engineering
Jim Kinder joined Quantum in November 2018 as Senior Director of Software Engineering. Jim is responsible for overseeing the development of a set of Quantum's System Management applications.
Jim is a seasoned engineering leader with more than 30 years of experience in developing applications for network and system management in global environments for large and small companies. Prior to Quantum, Jim was at Cisco Systems where he led development of applications for performance management, assurance, and analytics. Jim also led development of network management applications for mobile operators, SLA monitoring technology, management appliances and EMS Web Apps.
Prior to Cisco, Jim led development of network monitoring applications for several innovative companies using early technologies for IP standards-based management.
Jim holds a Master's Degree in System Engineering from George Mason University and a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Virginia.
John Hurley joined Quantum in August 2021 as Chief Revenue Officer. John has over 25 years of experience as a high-performing sales leader building great sales organizations and creating value for customers and partners. He comes to Quantum from Cisco, where he led multiple customer segments, including Cisco's largest commercial customers, as well as leading its Service Provider Business as Vice President of Sales. Before Cisco, John served as Dell Technologies' Midwest area vice president, and he led several transformational early-stage software companies serving in leadership roles before being acquired by Microsoft and HP.
John is passionate about giving back and holds several Board positions, including Mott Children's Hospital - Mott Golf Classic, Member of the America Heart Association in Dallas, as an ELT Member of their Cotes du Coeur premier event, and is heavily active in Cisco's Detroit Community Efforts. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Pennsylvania State University.
Lewis Moorehead joined Quantum as Chief Accounting Officer in October 2018. Prior to joining Quantum, he was the Director of Finance, Accounting, and Tax at Carvana, Co., a publicly traded online retailer. Prior to his tenure at Carvana, he served as Managing Partner at Quassey, an investment firm. While at Quassey, he also served as Vice President of Finance and Principal Accounting Officer at Limelight Networks, a NASDAQ-listed global content-delivery network and SaaS provider. Prior to Limelight Networks, he held various executive finance and accounting leadership positions. Lewis began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers.
As Technical Director at Quantum, Marc is architect of the QBSP (Quantum Block Storage Platform) which provides Data Performance, Reliability and Availability for block storage. QBSP storage is used across Quantum's disk-based product lines: StorNext ® scale-out file system and video surveillance.
Marc is a skilled engineer and IT professional, with a strong focus on Linux, virtualization and storage technologies. Prior to joining Quantum, he spent the last 15 years in the higher education sector where he has honed his skills designing and building reliable, highly available storage and virtualization solutions for enterprise IT. Marc is also the creator and lead developer of the ESOS (Enterprise Storage OS) open source, software-defined storage platform, used in thousands of data centers worldwide for shared block-level storage. Marc obtained his Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from The University of Michigan.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Financial Officer / Quantum Corp
Mike Dodson was named Chief Financial Officer in May 2018. Prior to Quantum, he served as CFO of Greenwave Systems, a global software and managed services company for Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Before joining Greenwave, Dodson was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Mattson Technology, Inc., an international semiconductor process equipment manufacturer, from 2012 - 2017. Prior to his tenure at Mattson, Dodson served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at DDi Corp., a provider of printed circuit board engineering and manufacturing services. Before joining DDi, Dodson served as the CFO for three global public technology companies and Chief Accounting Officer for an S&P 500 company. Dodson started his career with Ernst & Young.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Contact the Board
- Audit
- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BMC Software, Inc
Mr. Marc E. Rothman is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BMC Software, Inc., a global leader in IT solutions for the autonomous digital enterprise, a role he has held since October 2020. From February 2013 until July 2020, Mr. Rothman was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at VeriFone Systems Inc., a leader in global payment services and solutions. Prior to VeriFone, Mr. Rothman served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Motorola Mobility Inc. He led Motorola Mobility's spinoff from its former parent company, Motorola Solutions Inc., and its sale to Google in 2012. Mr. Rothman also served in finance leadership roles at Motorola Solutions Inc., General Instrument (GI), and Audit Advisory Services at Deloitte. Mr. Rothman is Chairman of Quantum's Audit Committee and is a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and the Leadership and Compensation Committee.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Lead Independent Director
- Member of the Contact the Board
- Corporate Governance and Nominating
- Member of the Board of Directors of TiVo Corporation
Mr. Raghu Rau currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of TiVo Corporation, a creator of personalized and data-driven ways for viewers to discover the right entertainment and for providers to discover the right audiences, a position he has held since May 2015. From November 2011 until October 2014, Mr. Rau served as the Chief Executive Officer of SeaChange International Inc., a provider of digital video systems, software and related services to cable, telecommunications and broadcast television companies worldwide, where he also served as a director from July 2010 until October 2014. From November 2010 until December 2014, Mr. Rau served as a director of Aviat Networks, Inc., a global supplier of microwave networking solutions, backed by an extensive suite of professional services and support. He also previously served as a director of Microtune, Inc., a global leader in RF integrated circuits and subsystem modules, from May 2010 until its acquisition by Zoran Corporation in December 2010. Mr. Rau served as Senior Vice President of the Mobile TV Solutions Business of Motorola, Inc. ("Motorola") from May 2007 until January 2008, and as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Networks & Enterprise of Motorola from March 2006 to May 2007. He served as Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing and Strategy for Motorola from 2005 to 2006, and as Corporate Vice President, Marketing and Professional Services, from 2001 to 2005. From October 1992 to 2001, Mr. Rau served in various positions within Motorola, including as Vice President of Strategic Business Planning and Vice President of Sales and Operations and held positions in Asia and Europe. He is a former Chair of the QuEST Forum, a collaboration of service providers and suppliers dedicated to telecom supply chain quality and performance, and a former director of the Center for Telecom Management at the University of Southern California. Mr. Rau also served on the Marketing Advisory Board of Cleversafe Inc. which was acquired by IBM. Mr. Rau is the Chair of the Leadership and Compensation Committee and a member of Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Contact the Board
- Audit
- Vice President of Enterprise Data and Analytics at NIKE, Inc
Ms. Emily White has served as Vice President of Enterprise Data and Analytics at NIKE, Inc. (NYSE: NKE), a company that manufactures and sells athletic apparel, since April 2020. Prior to NIKE, Inc., from February 2017 to April 2020, Ms. White served as Vice President of Enterprise Data Engineering at Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF), a consumer financial services company. From November 2013 to June 2015, Ms. White served in various capacities at General Electric Healthcare, a company that manufactures and distributes medical imaging modalities, including as Data Science Director and Global Commercial IT Director. Ms. White also previously served in various capacities at General Electric Transportation, a company that manufactures equipment for energy generation industries, including as Global Enterprise Resource Director and Senior Global Business Intelligence Program Manager, from May 2007 to October 2013.
Ms. White earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance from Shengyang Polytechnic University, a Master of Business Administration degree from Huron University, and a Master of Applied Mathematics degree in Computer Science at University of Central Oklahoma. Ms. White also holds a certificate in Health Economics & Outcomes Research from University of Washington. Ms. White's extensive senior management experience, particularly in data science and analytics, brings valuable perspective to Quantum's Board and to the oversight of these functions within Quantum.
White is currently Vice President of Enterprise Data and Analytics at NIKE, Inc., where she has served since April 2020. Prior to this, she served as Vice President of Enterprise Data Engineering at Synchrony Financial and in General Electric Healthcare and General Electric Transportation. She earned an MBA from Huron University and a Master of Applied Mathematics degree in Computer Science at University of Central Oklahoma. She also holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance from Shenyang Polytechnic University and a certificate in Health Economics & Outcomes Research from University of Washington.
Originally from China, White is fluent in Mandarin and understands the unique needs of the Asia Pacific market, which will support Quantum's mission to become a truly global company and accelerate international growth. White is a member of the Audit Committee and the Leadership and Compensation Committee.
Natasha Beckley is the Chief Marketing Officer for Quantum. In this role, Natasha is directly responsible for Quantum's brand and marketing strategy, partnering with teams across the organization to drive awareness, demand and growth.
Natasha has extensive experience in the industry, leading transformation with an emphasis on data-driven marketing, customer experience and integrated planning. Natasha joined Quantum in 2004, and previously held marketing roles at Sony, AppliedMicro, JNI Corp as well as agency-side positions serving Fortune 500 companies, such as Charles Schwab and Symantec, through to startups. Natasha holds an MBA from San Diego State University and a Bachelor of Science in Management from the University of Wales.
Job Titles:
- Technical Director, AI and Cloud
Plamen Minev joined Quantum in November 2020 as Technical Director and is leading AI and Cloud related initiatives at the Quantum CTO office. Plamen is a seasoned technology and engineering leader with more than 25 years of experience building technologies and teams at startups and global technology companies with proven expertise in large scale cloud, telecom, and data analytics solutions.
Before joining Quantum, Plamen was a member of the EY-Parthenon Software Strategy Group, where he helped PE firms and large enterprises evaluate technologies and companies in the enterprise software and cloud verticals. Before EY, Plamen served as CTO at NYNJA, where he led the product and engineering, and was Head of Product at CPLANE.AI, leading all initiatives for the Hybrid-Cloud management. Before CPLANE.AI, he was Director of Engineering for Cisco Systems' Cloud and Virtualization Group (CVG) and the Cisco CTO office.
Previously, Plamen held senior management and engineering positions at Nortel Networks, Sun Microsystems, Promatory Communications, Topspin Communications, and 1StopMove.com, and was co-founder of two companies. Plamen holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the Technical University of Sofia.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Contact the Board
- Audit / Corporate Governance and Nominating
Ms. Jacoby was Senior Vice President, Operations of Cisco Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in IT networking, until her retirement in January 2018. She was promoted to the role in July 2015 and was responsible for driving profitable growth and enabling operational excellence. Ms. Jacoby oversaw the supply chain, global business services, security and trust, and IT organizations. In her former role as Cisco's CIO from 2006 to 2015, she made the Cisco IT organization a strategic business partner, producing significant business value for Cisco in the form of financial performance, customer satisfaction and loyalty, market share, and productivity. Since joining Cisco in 1995, Ms. Jacoby held a variety of leadership roles in operations, manufacturing and IT. Prior to joining Cisco, Ms. Jacoby held a range of planning and operations positions with other companies in Silicon Valley. Her extensive understanding of business operations, infrastructure and application deployments, as well as her knowledge of products, software and services helped her advance Cisco's business through the use of Cisco technology. Ms. Jacoby served on the Board of Apptio, Inc., which provides cloud-based technology business management solutions to enterprises, from 2018 until its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners in January of 2019. Ms. Jacoby is Chair of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.
Ms. Jacoby has served on the Board of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties and is a founding member of the Technology Business Management Council. Known for her strong track record of operational excellence, innovative problem solving and talent development, Ms. Jacoby was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame by CIO magazine and was recognized by Forbes as a "Superstar CIO" in 2012.
Job Titles:
- Chief Customer Officer
- Senior Vice President
Rick Valentine joined Quantum in January 2021 as Senior Vice President & Chief Customer Officer. Rick brings more than 35 years of experience in advocating for customers and transforming teams to deliver great customer outcomes. Prior to Quantum, Rick served as Chief Customer Officer for Silver Peak Systems, a global leader in SD-WAN technology, and was instrumental in Hewlett Packard Enterprise's acquisition of Silver Peak earlier this year. Prior to Silver Peak, Rick served as Chief Customer Officer at Symantec Inc./Veritas Software, leading customer success for the technical support software portfolio spanning customers across 11 global locations and more than 15 languages, including a team of 1,800 worldwide associates. He has also held various executive roles at Intuit, Sage Software, and Automatic Data Processing (ADP).
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Officer
Shahid Khan joined Quantum in November 2018. He leads the Global IT organization for Quantum and is responsible for its strategy & vision.
Shahid has over two decades of experience transforming IT teams and deploying enterprise solutions around the globe. He has extensive experience working with international teams dispersed in multiple locations and enterprise solutions for ERP, logistics, manufacturing and warehousing. Prior to Quantum, Shahid served as CIO for Mattson Technology, where he was instrumental in successfully transforming the global infrastructure and redeploying the SAP ERP solution. Before Mattson, Shahid served as Global Head of IT for a software developer Lohika Systems (now part of Altran). At Lohika Shahid re-built the global IT organization in Eastern Europe and USA and deployed solutions to align IT with the business to achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction and productivity. Shahid was also Founder and CTO of Intalect, a manufacturing execution control systems startup; Head of world-wide IT for Telegent; Senior Director of IT Asia Pacific and US West & Mexico for Celestica; and Head of IT for IMS. Shahid Studied Computer Science at Oregon State University.
Job Titles:
- Director of Advanced Development, LTO
Turguy represents Quantum with LTO organizations as the technology leader, while also leading the Advanced Development Team focused in LTO technology.
Turguy is servo and signal processing technology expert, with more than 30 years of experience in researching and designing tape drives specifically LTO.
Turguy has been one of the key contributors for researching low flying heads for HDD systems. His very first patent was on the Low Drag Liquid Bearing Recoding Heads achieving sub 1-micron head to disk spacing which was one of the key technologies for today's Disk drives. Later, Turguy transitioned to Data Tape group researching and designing Arcuate Scan, DAT and finally LTO tape systems.
Turguy was a key member of a small R&D team who was responsible for the original LTO project collaborating with HP and IBM helping the formation of today's LTO organization and tape technology.
Early in LTO, Turguy helped design and develop reel to reel motion control systems and the actuator tracking servo algorithms. Later in his career, he managed the LTO Advanced Development Team for Quantum, and has been responsible for developing next generation data detection methods, ECC concepts including ASIC implementation and high-performance dual actuator based adaptive servo control algorithms for multi-channel tape systems. Presently, he represents Quantum with LTO organization as the technology leader while still leading the Advanced Development Team focused in LTO technology.
Turguy has more than 50 patents in the tape technology field specifically in servo control, logical and physical tape formats, data detection and erasure coding. He was selected as Technology Hall of Fame with both Seagate and Certance.
Turguy holds a Master of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University.