Arkeia Appoints Dave Elliott as Business Development Director.CARLSBAD, Calif. -- Arkeia Corp., an international provider of enterprise backup solutions, today announced that Dave Elliott has been appointed to the newly created position as director of business development, responsible for partnerships and OEM business in North America, Asia Pacific and Latin America. "Dave brings significant experience and leadership to our company, and demonstrates Arkeia's commitment to build on our already strong customer base in North America, Latin America and Asia," said Arkeia CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Phil Roussel. "Arkeia has a dominant and defensible position in a fast growing market: data protection for Linux systems," said Elliott. "Customers such as Lockheed Martin, Bacardi and NASA NASA: see National Aeronautics and Space Administration. NASA in full National Aeronautics and Space Administration Independent U.S. already rely on Arkeia products, and I am thrilled to be part of the aggressive Arkeia team." Prior to joining Arkeia, Elliott was responsible for strategic development at Iomega Corporation where he drove partnerships with enterprise software companies. Before that, he oversaw business development for Blue Martini Software Blue Martini Software (Blue Martini Software, Inc.) was a privately held software manufacturer and professional services provider based in San Mateo, California that sells and supports an eponymous e-commerce enterprise application that supports sales online, by phone, and at the , and led the team that forged technology partnerships with IBM, HP, Sun Microsystems, TIBCO TIBCO The Information Bus Company and SAS Institute. Elliott has also held marketing management positions with Sun Microsystems, and consulted with technology companies on strategy and marketing while with management consultant A.T. Kearney (EDS (Electronic Data Systems, Plano, TX, www.eds.com) Founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot (independent candidate for the President of the U.S. in 1992), EDS is the largest outsourcing and data processing services organization in the country. ). Dave holds an MBA from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Berkeley's Haas School of Business and a BA in Economics from the University of California, San Diego UCSD is consistently ranked among the top ten public universities for undergraduate education in the United States by U.S. News & World Report.[3] It is a Public Ivy. [1] For graduate studies, most of UCSD's Ph.D. . Arkeia Corp. is a leading provider of backup solutions for departments and mid-size businesses utilizing Linux. Arkeia offers data protection software designed to ease the life of system administrators while improving efficiency. Founded in 1996, Arkeia's mission is to provide fast, reliable and easy-to-use enterprise-class technology at a competitive price. Protecting more than 100,000 networks worldwide, Arkeia solutions have been adopted by 4,000 corporate-class customers in over 50 countries. Arkeia is privately held, with investment funding support from two major banking concerns. Offices are in Carlsbad, Calif. and Paris, France. For further information visit www.arkeia.com. |
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