QUANTUM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Administrative Officer
Brian joined Quantum in April 2021 and is the Chief Administrative Officer, responsible for both the legal and human resources functions for the company. A senior tech-industry executive from Silicon Valley, he brings over 25 years of legal, human resources, compliance, regulatory and finance experience to the organization. Brian recently served as Assistant United States 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 hardware, 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 and depth of knowledge that supports Quantum's future growth.
Brian has been a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Advisory Committee as well as President of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. He is a Senior Fellow with the American Leadership Forum - Silicon Valley and has been a guest lecturer at Stanford Law School and on the Dean's Committee on Legal Education at USC Law. Brian holds both bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Southern California, a Diploma Superior from Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, as well as a Juris Doctorate from the USC Law School.
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:
- Director
- Member of the Contact the Board
- Corporate Governance and Nominating
- Executive Vice President and Portfolio Manager at PIMCO
Christopher D. Neumeyer is an executive vice president and portfolio manager at PIMCO, a global investment management firm that provides investment solutions to companies, educational institutions, foundations and endowments across the world. Since joining PIMCO in January 2010, Mr. Neumeyer has held multiple roles and is currently responsible for identifying, originating and structuring corporate investments across the capital structure in a variety of industries for various PIMCO-managed investment funds.
Previously, he held roles at Blackstone Group and Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Neumeyer earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Indiana University and is also a CFA® charterholder.
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:
- Advisor
- Director
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Contact the Board
Don Jaworski brings more than 40 years of delivering complex systems, scaling organizations and building new businesses. Currently, he is President and Chief Operating Officer of Lacuna Technologies, Inc., a leader in software that helps municipalities to operationalize digital infrastructure and manage transportation dynamically. At Lacuna, he leads execution and is focused on delivering value to Lacuna's customers. Prior to joining Lacuna, Jaworski was CEO of SwiftStack, Inc., an open-source cloud data management company focused on large scale data applications, which was acquired by NVIDIA. He was SVP & GM of the core platform business at NetApp, where the team focused on the transition to scale-out systems. He has also held senior leadership roles at Brocade where he was the SVP of Product and at Nokia as the GM of the Enterprise Security business unit. Jaworski's early career included management positions at Sun Microsystems and Amdahl Corporation.
Jaworski has been an advisor and board member for a number of early-stage companies. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Job Titles:
- Director
- Member of the Contact the Board
- Audit
Hugues Meyrath brings an extensive background in various leadership roles at global technology companies, most notably in the networking and data storage segments.
Most recently, he served as Chief Product Officer of ServiceChannel, acquired by Fortive in 2021. Before that, he was Vice President at Dell Technologies Capital where he was responsible for driving venture funding, mergers & acquisitions, and other advisory roles for a diverse set of portfolio companies. He also held the role of Vice President of Product Management and Business Development for EMC's Backup & Recovery Services, which offers a wide portfolio of data protection and business continuity products. Meyrath's experience also includes executive roles at Juniper Networks, Brocade Communications, SBS and Quantum.
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.
Ken Gianella joined Quantum in 2023 as Quantum's Chief Financial Officer. With vast business expertise in technology, international finance, manufacturing, operations, and sales to government and other regulated industries, Ken plays a critical role on the company's executive team.
Ken has more than 25 years of operations and finance experience in the tech industry working for both public and private multinational companies in roles including CFO, IRO, Treasurer, and Senior Vice President of Finance. Most recently he was at Itron with roles leading Investor Relations, Mergers, Divestitures, & Acquisitions, ESG Strategy, and as a Divisional CFO. Ken joined Itron after its acquisition of Silver Spring Networks (SSNI) where he held several senior finance roles, including serving as interim CFO. Prior to SSNI, Ken held multiple finance leadership positions at KLA-Tencor. Ken began his career in product management at various internet and telecommunication companies before becoming a General Manager at Allegheny Energy.
Ken holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Duquesne University and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh's Katz Graduate School of Business.
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:
- Director
- Member of the Contact the Board
- Audit / Corporate Governance and Nominating
- 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
- Member of the Contact the Board
- Leadership and Compensation
- 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
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.
As Quantum's Chief Customer Officer, Ross Fujii leads the global Services, Technical Support, Training, Customer Success and Enablement departments responsible for deploying, integrating, managing, and supporting Quantum's end-to-end portfolio of solutions for customers and partners worldwide. Ross brings a fresh tech-forward approach to customer success based on service delivery platforms and automation, partnering with teams across Quantum to deliver measured, best-in-class customer experience. Ross joined Quantum in June 2021 as the General Manager of the Strategic Markets Business Unit and head of Product Marketing, where he drove and integrated the acquisitions of Pivot3 and EnCloudEn.
Ross has over 25 years of experience developing hybrid end-to-end solutions and leading enterprise customers through market transformations. Having held key leadership positions in both startups and large, established corporations, his breadth of experience spans strategy, service delivery, managed services, project management, engineering, architecture, and business development.
Before joining Quantum, Ross served as Vice President of Engineering and Alliances at SolarWinds where he managed the flagship Orion products and provided the enterprise market with customer-centric, modern IT management solutions in rapid growth to over $1 billion in revenues supporting a company IPO. He previously served in leadership roles at Cisco Systems, Seagate, Electronic Data Systems, and many Bay Area startup. Ross received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.
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.
Job Titles:
- Chief Information Officer
- Chief of Staff
As Quantum's Chief Information Officer and Chief of Staff, Willem leads the IT department responsible for building, maintaining and protecting Quantum's internal IT infrastructure, and oversees the corporate program management office coordinating cross functional activities supporting the implementation of Quantum's global strategy and vision, including new product introductions and M&A integrations. Willem joined Quantum in November 2018 as the Head of Internal Audit.
Prior to Quantum, Willem was the Head of Enterprise Risk Management and Compliance at eBay and implemented the channel compliance program at Juniper Networks. Willem started his career as an IT auditor/consultant with KPMG in the Netherlands followed by KPMG USA in San Francisco, CA.
Willem holds a master's degree in Business Economics and Information Sciences from Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He also studied at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.