Nirvanix hires VP of Sales, Senior Director of Alliances
Management additions will continue to advance Company’s Storage Delivery Network
SAN DIEGO – January 21, 2008 – Nirvanix today announced the hiring of Daniel Havens as Vice President of Sales and Craig Halliwell as Senior Director of Alliances, continuing its trend for recruiting experienced industry veterans to management positions at the company whose Storage Delivery Network (SDN) enable businesses to launch global-scale, storage-intensive web applications into the market with integration of its industry-leading storage application programming interface (API).
As the newest members of the Nirvanix management team, Havens and Halliwell will be expanding the Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network to support products in the consumer electronics space as well as new partnerships in the content delivery network (CDN) managed services markets. As Nirvanix storage nodes are set up worldwide, they will automatically join the global Nirvanix storage cluster such that a file placed on the network is stored at the optimal geographical location based on demand and user experience requirements.
Nirvanix has already differentiated itself from other online storage platform vendors with its straightforward, industry-leading storage API, proven global scale, total system economy, and included pre-built management tools that take the stress out of providing the storage layer when building and launching media-rich web applications.
“Because of our success as the most reliable way for developers and businesses to store and deliver their Web-based content, Nirvanix continues to attract top-notch talent to our leadership positions,” said Patrick Harr, Nirvanix CEO. “With the additions of Dan and Craig to our management team, we once again improve our company’s ability to allow companies to focus on their core business instead of maintaining a data center and managing an IT administration staff. We look forward to the results of Dan and Craig’s efforts in extending the reach of our innovative Storage Delivery Network throughout the world.”
Havens brings to Nirvanix nearly two decades of experience in creating new and successful sales organization, as well as transforming existing teams into world-class operations. Prior to Nirvanix, Havens was the Vice President of Sales for ClearApp, a J2EE composite application management company specializing in enterprise application performance. He joined the company in its early stages and helped drive it to record growth and recognition by Gartner as a 2007 Cool Vendor in the APM space. Before ClearApp, Havens was a Senior Director for BEA Systems where he rapidly developed his U.S. and Canadian units into the leading growth engines within the corporation. Prior to BEA, he was the Senior Director and Principal for MicroStrategy Inc., leading the company from startup to publicly traded company. Havens also served as a Product Manager and public speaker for the Boeing Commercial Aircraft Group. He holds a BS in Engineering from Western Washington University.
Halliwell comes to Nirvanix from IBRIX, a leader in grid computing, where he established the IBRIX channel program and signed major systems integrator partnerships in Asia, Europe and North America. Prior to IBRIX, Halliwell ran the Western Region channel business for VERITAS/Symantec, where he led his team to the top ranking region worldwide in 2005. He also managed global alliance partners at BEA Systems, and was a key member of the sales organization at Akamai Technologies during its early growth years and through its initial public offering.
About Nirvanix
Nirvanix is the premier provider of Internet storage optimized for media. With its global cluster of storage nodes and patent-pending technologies collectively referred to as “The Storage Delivery Network” (SDN), Nirvanix allows any Internet-enabled application to scale instantly to meet the demands for hosting and delivering millions of media files such as consumer video, audio, photographs and documents. The Nirvanix Storage Delivery Network dramatically shortens time-to-market, reduces costs, and provides flexibility and control for businesses integrating Internet-scale online storage to their applications. In addition to its superior technologies Nirvanix’ outstanding reputation with its customers is based on its unparalleled developer support. Founded in 2007, Nirvanix is a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California and backed by world-class investors including Intel Capital. For more information about the company and its services, visit www.nirvanix.com.
Contact Client:
Adrian Herrera | Director of Marketing
Phone: 619.764.5650 ext. 306 | Email: Adrian.Herrera@Nirvanix.com
Contact Agency:
Mark Smith | JPR Communications
Phone: 818-386-0403 | Email: marks@jprcom.com