Leadership

Karl Chen - Executive Director

Karl possesses more than 25 years of experience in IT Technology strategy and business management. As a successful entrepreneur, he specializes in distributed systems, storage, enterprise software and virtualization. He has successfully built and sold two entrepreneurial start-up businesses including LeftHand Networks, which was acquired by HP for $360M in November, 2008 and NuView ManageX, which was acquired in 1997. Karl was VP of Marketing at BMC Software and held executive roles at Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Compaq.

Steve Georgis - Founder, RDX General Manager, ProStor Systems

Steve Georgis has been an entrepreneur involved in the start-up and management of high-technology companies for more than 25 years. Today he leads the RDX drive and media business as general manager for ProStor Systems, a data storage company he founded in May of 2004. Mr. Georgis has raised over $27 million to develop market leading removable disk storage solutions for computer data protection and long-term archive applications. As a recognized computer industry veteran, Mr. Georgis has assembled a team of data storage experts with decades of success in designing, manufacturing and marketing advanced disk and tape storage systems.

Marije Stijnen - Vice President of Marketing, Tandberg Data

Marije Stijnen was appointed as Vice President of Marketing at Tandberg Data in July 2009, with responsibility for product management, strategic alliances, global marketing, including public relations, analyst relations, and business development. Prior to this, she was the global director of corporate marketing for Tandberg Data. In this role, she was responsible for Tandberg Data's global marketing and communication strategy. Stijnen joined Tandberg Data in September 2006.