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United Kingdom

KickDrum gives you access to a broad range of sales and marketing skills but on a “fractional” and on-demand basis. Get the right mix of experience and practical execution required, and take the pressure off hiring a full “in-house” team until the optimal moment. Current contracts: 1) Vector & Scalar Products Ltd (www.vspl.co.uk) - Digital forensic workflow solutions: building out their specialist digital forensic go to market offering via best of breed software, infrastructure and cloud offerings from: Exterro, Magnet, Opswat, Azure alongside their existing hardware infrastructure providers like OSNexus, DataCore and others.2) Liqid (www.liqid.com) - providing a composable infrastructure leveraging industry-standard data centre components to deliver a flexible, scalable architecture built from pools of disaggregated resources: compute, networking, storage, GPU, FPGA, and memory devices (Intel® Optane™). Assisting existing team with go to market sales activities across the EMEA region, both direct and indirect through establishing the partner ecosystem with a focus on: HPC, Higher Ed, service providers, finance, media and central government verticals.

United Kingdom

Spearheaded successful campaigns into UK and European territories, driving modern application infrastructures based on cloud automation, containerisation and virtualised platforms through the adoption of OpenNebula, KVM, K8's, Ceph FS, Ceph RBD, and S3 solutions.Developed and executed direct and partner led value selling strategies for a fully integrated private cloud stack, resulting in increased market penetration and revenue growth.Collaborated with universities, research facilities, and service providers to promote and sell the Ceph storage appliance and proprietary hardware stack. Norwich Biotech Institutes, University of Cardiff, Enreach, University of Hamburg, Aptiv, University of Weimar, Etage.

London, United Kingdom

EMEA wide territory role, based from the UK, selling the ActiveScale object storage platform.Succesful campaigns into public sector, research, media and entertainment: providing next generation primary file system alternatives and long term archival using cloud native object storage (S3) protocol.Working with technology partners such as WekaIO, Quantum and SpectrumScale to provide integrated multi-petabyte file system solutions into the likes of Genomics England, Publicis, Burberry, Pirbright Institute.The ActiveScale object storage business unit acquired by Quantum.

Uk

Avere provided an accelerated scaleout gateway cache to existing NetApp and EMC Isilon file system deployments where their existing performance was lacking. The product developed to also provide a file system presentation via a scaleout gateway in front of an object store, either on premise or public cloud based (AWS, Azure and GCE).This was an EMEA wide go to market territory role encompassing direct sales, technology and reseller partner engagement and development, marketing activity and lead generation. Customer examples include: EMBL EBI, Important Looking Pirates, Industrial Light and Magic, Moving Picture Company, Framestore, Motion Picture SolutionsAvere was acquired by Microsoft and incorporated into their Azure offering

South East, Uk

Key participant within the wider virtualised Dell sales teams with a proven storage sales focus within UK Education market, and UK acquisition business across both commercial global accounts. Providing the broad storage portfolio offering catering for holistic and component level solutions within organisations environments: HPC & research file storage, user file shares & drop box solutions, business unit virtualised application storage, backup & archive object storage solutions.Partnering with Dell's technology vendors: CommVault, Veritas, Quantum, Caringo, VMWare, Veeam, Microsoft Storage Spaces, Compellent, Equallogic, PowerVault.Customers include: Oxford University, Institute of Cancer Research, University of Surrey, University of Cambridge, London Grid for Learning, Univeristy of Westmister, Univeristy College London

Focussing on Communications, Media and Entertainment industry

Developed new business broadcast and post production media customers and broke into the Life Sciences and Hi-Tech industries.

Media industry vertical focusNew Business role

General Commercial AccountsSouth East Territory FocusNew Business role

United Kingdom

New and e-business territory sales role

Telesales - National AccountsTelesales - Major AccountsProduct Management - Texas Instruments, AST & Siemens NixdorfBusiness Development Manager - Compaq

Ba, International Business

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