Pure Storage announced that effective immediately Paul Mountford is joining as the company's Chief Operating Officer (COO). Mountford will assume responsibility for Worldwide Sales and Sales Operations; Channels and Alliances; Marketing; and Customer Experience, which includes Global Support and Professional Services. After seven years as President of Pure Storage, David Hatfield transitions to Vice Chair and President Emeritus, serving as a strategic advisor to Chairman and CEO, Charles Giancarlo. During David's first seven years at Pure, he led Sales, Sales Ops, Channels, Alliances, Marketing and Professional Services, helped to grow revenues from $0 to $1B+ and played an instrumental role in establishing the company as the data market leader. Mountford brings 30+ years of senior sales and technology leadership experience, most recently at Riverbed as CEO and previously the Chief Sales Officer. Prior to Riverbed, he was CEO at Sentillian and held senior roles during his tenure at Cisco.
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.
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