Pure Storage, Inc. announced the appointment of financial services and tech veteran Andy Brown to its Board of Directors. Brown is filling the position held by Mike Speiser, who is stepping down following ten years of service. Brown is currently CEO and co-founder of Sand Hill East where he guides portfolio companies in their early development and growth. Prior to Sand Hill East, Brown held senior technology roles at UBS, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Credit Suisse. Brown is also a board director for Zscaler and Guidewire.
Pure Storage, Inc. is a data storage and management company. The Company is focused on delivering a disruptive data storage platform, which supports a range of structured and unstructured data, at scale and across any data workload in hybrid and public cloud environments, and includes mission-critical production, test and development, analytics, disaster recovery, backup and restore, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Its integrated hardware systems include FlashArray and FlashBlade. Its cloud-native storage includes Portworx by Pure Storage and Portworx Data Services. It delivers modern cloud-oriented services, management and automation to customers across their on-premises, private and public cloud environments. Its cloud operating model is delivered through its Pure Fusion, Evergreen architecture and Pure1 cloud management plane. The Company sells its products and subscription services using a direct sales force and its channel partners.