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Mark Diamond President & CEO Mark Diamond was one of the early pioneers in the storage services industry. Mark founded Contoural, and under his leadership the company has grown to be the industry leader in data consulting services. Previously Mark was co-founder of the Professional Services group at Veritas (OpenVision), and subsequently founded and built the worldwide professional services and education organizations for Legato Systems. He was also Vice President of Worldwide Professional Services at RightWorks. Mark was one of the industry leaders in applying the life-cycle services approach to storage, and has been a management consultant to numerous storage vendors. He is a frequent industry speaker on compliance, data policy, storage strategy and archiving. Mark is also President of the Alumni Association for the University of California San Diego. |
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Michael Casey Vice President of Services Delivery Mike Casey has more than 20 years experience in storage and high technology. Previously Mike was a storage analyst for Gartner, and a Compliance Officer for a medical device company. He has also held executive and marketing management positions at storage product companies such as Fujitsu, IBM and Shugart, and served most recently as VP of Marketing at Solid Data Systems. Mike has published numerous articles and papers on storage technology, compliance and data strategy, and has spoken at industry conferences such as Storage Decisions, Storage Networking World, and Gartner Planet Storage. He also serves as an expert on data retention and compliance for SearchStorage.com. Mike holds a BS in Physics and an MBA, both from Santa Clara University. |
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Greg Forest Chief Technical Officer Greg Forest has more than 20 years experience in storage, application software, programming, management, marketing, support, and implementation. As CTO for Contoural, he has developed methodologies to make archiving solution deployment predictable and cost effective, and has worked with Contoural clients to help them select solution vendors to satisfy demanding business objectives and technical requirements. Previously Greg worked as Director of IT for Legato Systems, responsible for governance, budgeting, and strategic vision. Prior to that he was a Senior Product Manager responsible for the technical integration of Legato products into storage solutions from Sun Microsystems and Compaq. Earlier he was responsible for Oracle deployment and the Developer's Program for SCO Unix across a variety of OEM hardware platforms. |
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Silvia Malaccorto Vice President of Business Development Silvia Malaccorto joins Contoural from EMC, where she served as director of global alliances. In her new role as vice president of business development she brings more than 15 years of sales and marketing experience in storage and information management technologies for EMC, Seagate, Conner Peripherals and others. Malaccorto, who began her career at Maxtor Corporation, is known in the industry for developing and leveraging successful multi-tiered sales channels, channel programs, and cultivating long-term alliances through the partnership lifecycle. She holds a bachelor of science in business administration from San Diego State University. |
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Judith Gum Chief Financial Officer Judy Gum is an experienced finance professional with more than 18 years of experience in financial operations, planning and management. Judy has worked in various financial positions with hardware, software and service provider firms including Unisys, Tandem, Compaq, Synopsys, Macromedia, Embrace Networks and Corio. She completed her MBA at Santa Clara University. |
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 Services Team Contoural’s services team is composed of experienced, industry-leading storage experts. Our focus on storage and compliance ensures that your consultant or storage educator is truly an expert on storage. Our analysts have on average 12 years of industry experience. Our consultants have an average of nine years experience deploying application archiving and storage systems. |
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