HYPERGRID APPOINTS INDUSTRY VETERAN DOUG RICH AS VICE PRESIDENT OF EMEA
Joins Senior Team at HyperGrid to Drive Sales, Partnerships and Awareness of Hyperconverged Infrastructure Solutions
Mountain View, CA – July 27, 2016, HyperGrid, the pioneer and pacesetter in the HyperConverged Infrastructure-as-a-Service (HCIaaS) market, formerly known as Gridstore, has appointed Doug Rich VP of EMEA. Doug is chartered to lead and grow its sales and partnership expansion throughout the region.
Prior to HyperGrid, he worked for Tintri where he oversaw a period of rapid growth and developed the company’s network of customers, channel distributors and resellers in EMEA.
Doug joined Tintri from EMC where he managed the Isilon scale-out NAS business across Northern Europe. Prior to that he worked at VERITAS and a number of successful start-ups, including Outerbay and Lefthand Networks.
Nariman Teymourian, Chairman and CEO, HyperGrid, stated: “With over 25 years of experience working in the infrastructure industry, Doug is an expert at creating, leading and growing successful European sales teams that have rapidly increased revenues at various companies. We as a company are extremely fortunate to have been able to enlist his talents on our behalf. There is no better person to lead the HyperGrid team in EMEA.”
“I am excited to be joining such a vibrant team, as HyperGrid is clearly at the forefront of delivering new innovative HCI solutions to the market, and has established itself as a leader with strong partner base and dedicated and loyal customers,” added Doug Rich, VP of EMEA, HyperGrid.
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HyperGrid delivers IT at the flip of a switch: A revolutionary new concept in HyperConverged Infrastructure, HCI-as-a-Service (“HCIaaS”) is the industry’s first application aware offering that brings the simplicity and ease-of-use of HCI together with a pay-as-you-consume pricing model that scales elastically. HCIaaS delivers “one-click” automated application deployment and management seamlessly across any cloud or container infrastructure. Enterprises can now enjoy all the benefits of the public cloud at better rates without fear of vendor lock-in. HCIaaS solves the key challenges of DevOps for Enterprises – allowing for both traditional and cloud-native applications to be containerized, managed and deployed with a single tool, dramatically simplifying IT and bridging the needs of both developers and IT operators. HyperGrid solutions unleash innovation for the Digital Enterprise. HyperGrid is headquartered in Mountain View, CA. and its products and services are available through a global network of channel partners.
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