-- Maxwell brings more than 20 years of proven Sales leadership
experience building and managing successful sales, channel, OEM and
alliance teams to Virtual Instruments.
-- Before joining Virtual Instruments, Sean was Area VP of Sales with
EMC, running global and large enterprise sales teams in their Western
Region. Despite a down economy, his core business grew by 45 percent in
2008, taking significant share from competition.
-- Prior to EMC, Sean was VP of worldwide business development for Q-
Logic, spearheading Q-Logic's efforts to call into end-user accounts,
instead of relying wholly on OEM relationships.
-- Before Q-Logic, Sean served as Regional VP of Sales for McDATA/CNT
(now Brocade), and led the Sales merger/integration efforts for both
acquisitions. He led his sales teams to #1 in the company each year he was
there.
-- Sean began his career in sales in the Consumer Packaged Goods
industry, running field sales & corporate sales business planning roles for
Nestle, Clorox and Coca-Cola, owning the launch of several well known
global products & the business planning responsibilities for a billion
dollar business.
-- He is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a degree in
Business Administration.
Quotes
From Mark Urdahl, CEO, Virtual Instruments: "Sean is a proven sales
executive with an outstanding track record and reputation for working in
partnership with Global 500 enterprise customers. We value Sean's track
record of successfully growing and building successful sales organizations.
And his sales executive experience with EMC, QLogic and CNT makes him
uniquely qualified to expand the global sales of VirtualWisdom, which we
believe will become an essential ingredient of every virtualized data
center."
From Jim Davidson, Investor and Board Member, Virtual Instruments: "Sean is
a great addition to our management team. He has been extremely successful
wherever he has been and will be joining a very strong executive leadership
team that truly acts as a partnership for success. We are very excited to
have him join us."
From Sean Maxwell, Vice President of Sales at Virtual Instruments: "It is
very clear to me that the trend to virtualize business-critical
applications in the data center is creating enormous opportunities for
Virtual Instruments. Customers are just now beginning to realize that
virtualizing mission-critical applications in live production requires
comprehensive visibility into physical infrastructure. NetWisdom and
VirtualWisdom provide an enabling platform for Global 500 customers to
improve virtual infrastructure performance and gain full control over their
capital and operational IT expenses. Virtual Instruments' solutions are
unique, critical enablers to virtual infrastructure optimization."
About Virtual Instruments
Virtual Instruments offers the award-winning NetWisdom and VirtualWisdom
virtual infrastructure optimization solutions that provide deep monitoring
and analysis of how the virtualized IT infrastructure and SAN affect
business-critical application performance. Customers such as Barclay's Card
Services, Kaiser Permanente and McKesson Corp. achieve significant cost
savings in virtualization and SAN deployments by optimizing utilization,
performance and availability of IT resources. Leading system and storage
vendors including IBM, HP and EMC leverage Virtual Instruments to design
and optimize SAN solutions for enterprise customers. The company was
founded in June 2008 via a spin-out from Finisar Corp.; it has headquarters
in Scotts Valley, Calif., and can be found online at
http://www.virtualinstruments.com.
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