Bringing fluidity to legacy data infrastructure

Paul Flanagan

CEO

Paul Flanagan is responsible for all aspects of Nasuni’s global operations. He has built a world-class team of innovators who have built a software-defined platform which allows mid-to-large enterprise companies to bring structure and control to the chaos of unstructured data.

Nasuni is the third company which Paul has helped lead from very early stage to well over $100M in revenue, with the other two enjoying successful public offerings and achieving valuations in excess of $1B. He has served as CEO at Rave Mobile Safety (now part of Motorola Solutions) and StorageNetworks (IPO: Nasdaq), CFO at VistaPrint (IPO: Nasdaq), and VP of Finance at Lasertron (Acquired: Corning) and Vitol Gas and Electric (Acquired: Coral Energy). Paul has raised well over $1B in equity and debt financing to help build these companies.

Paul has also spent 13 years as co-founder and managing director at Sigma Prime Ventures and 18 years as a managing director at Sigma Partners, where he led investments in Wordstream (acquired: Gannett), Bionx (acquired: Ottoboch), ReThink Robotics, High Street Partners (acquired: HG Capital/Nair), Contently, NS1(acquired: IBM) and Ceros (acquired: Sumeru). Paul is also a founding investor and board member for Nasuni.

Paul is also a recovering CPA, having started his career at Ernst & Young and spending almost 10 years in the Entrepreneurial Services Group. He graduated with a degree in accounting from Bentley University.

David Grant

President

David Grant is responsible for all Nasuni field operations, which include sales, marketing, alliances, professional services, customer success. David led Nasuni’s Go-to market scale from $40m to over $150m ARR.

David is a veteran enterprise software executive with 25 years of experience in senior leadership roles at software companies – from startups to multibillion-dollar operations. He joined Nasuni from Veeam Software, where he was the senior vice president of global marketing. Veeam is a $1b leader in data protection. Prior to Veeam, he served as the vice president, marketing at VMware where he helped grow the End User Computing (EUC) business unit from $500m to $1.5b during his tenure including 5 acquisitions. David also served as the CMO at two startups. Desktone, acquired by VMware, and Watchfire, acquired by IBM.

David started his career in product strategy and marketing. He has an MBA in finance from Dalhousie University and a marketing degree from Saint Mary’s University.

Andres Rodriguez

Founder & CTO

Nasuni Founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez brings passion and energy to his role refining and communicating Nasuni’s technology strategy.

Andres was previously Founder and CEO at Archivas, creator of the first enterprise-class cloud storage system. Acquired by Hitachi Data Systems, Archivas is now the basis for the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP). After supporting the worldwide rollout of HCP as Hitachi’s CTO of File Services and seeing the Archivas team and technology successfully integrated, Andres turned his attention to his next venture, Nasuni (NAS Unified). Delivering value-added enterprise file services on top of cloud object storage was the natural progression of Andres’ cloud storage vision.

Before founding Archivas, Andres was CTO at the New York Times, where his ideas for digital content storage, protection, and access were formed. He joined The Times through its acquisition of Abuzz, the pioneering social networking company Andres co-founded.

Andres has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a Master of Physics degree from Boston University. He holds numerous patents and is an avid swimmer.

Pete Agresta

Chief Revenue Officer

Pete is responsible for growing and scaling the revenue-generating organization for Nasuni including worldwide Sales and Solution Engineering, and Channel Sales.

Pete has a wealth of experience building and leading high-performing teams for organizations at all stages and sizes. Most recently, he was the Vice President of Enterprise Sales for Pure Storage, where he led a team that more than doubled the business to over $1B during his 4-year tenure. Prior, he was Chief Revenue Officer for LookingGlass Cyber, where he helped recapitalize the company, acquired and commercialized a threat intel platform, and grew the business over 50%. Earlier in his career, Pete spent a decade at Cisco Systems, leading the Global Financial sales teams in various sales and sales leadership roles and 7 years on Wall Street at AllianceBernstein, a leading global investment firm, as Managing Director for Middle Market Sales.

Pete lives just outside of NYC, is married and raising 4 kids. He holds a BA from Siena College and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Dean Breda

Vice President & General Counsel

Dean oversees Nasuni’s legal function, bringing over 25 years of general counsel experience in fast growing technology companies to the role. Prior to Nasuni, he most recently served as general counsel for HackerOne, a hacker-powered security platform.

Dean was also general counsel of both Veracode, until its sale to CA Technologies, and Zipcar, assisting in both the company’s IPO and its sale to Avis Budget Group. He has also served as general counsel for several other leading technology firms, including Demandware, VistaPrint and StorageNetworks.

Dean has a B.A in Management from University of Massachusetts-Amherst and J.D. from the University of Connecticut.

Nick Burling

Sr. Vice President, Product

Nick Burling is the Senior Vice President of Product at Nasuni where he is responsible for defining and executing on the roadmap for Nasuni’s portfolio of innovative hybrid cloud storage offerings, and for developing an ecosystem around those offerings to maximize Nasuni’s value for our customers.

Nick is an accomplished entrepreneur and IT product executive with experience in managing all phases of the product lifecycle. He has a proven track record in identifying new market opportunities, defining strategic vision, and executing on that vision to capture market share. Nick’s background includes broad experience building and leading winning product teams with Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft and IBM, and in leading startups from launch to successful exit.

Raymond Hale

Chief Financial Officer

Ray has more than 20 years of financial and operational leadership experience across multiple industries, with an emphasis on scaling emergin
g technology companies. Prior to rejoining Nasuni, Ray held the position of Chief Financial Officer at Clinc, Inc., a conversational artificial intelligence platform which enables enterprises to utilize natural language processing to power exceptional customer experiences. Prior to Clinc, Ray was Vice President of Finance at Nasuni for nearly five years.

Prior to Nasuni, Ray led the global finance team at Demandware, Inc., (IPO: NYSE) the category-defining leader of enterprise cloud commerce solutions, where he saw the number of employees grow from 150 to 800 and annual recurring revenue increase from $20 million to $230 million, whilst completing three successful acquisitions. Ray supported the initial public offering and follow-on offering, which raised approximately $300 million and resulted in a market capitalization of over $3 billion.

Ray holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Seton Hall University and a Master of Business Administration from Providence College.

Barrie Kuza

Vice President, Customer Experience

Barrie Kuza leads Nasuni’s Customer Experience team whose goal is to be the voice of the customer within Nasuni. We work cross functionally to make sure that every customer interaction with the product and people of Nasuni is great.

Barrie has been a tireless advocate for Nasuni customers since joining the company in 2011 as a Senior Technical Support Engineer. Her role has grown steadily, mirroring Nasuni’s growth, and she has taken on a variety of customer-facing positions including Manager, Technical Support; Senior Director, Technical Operations; Vice President, Customer Success; Vice President, Product Management; and Vice President, Customer Experience.

Barrie is known as a technically skilled, customer-focused executive with a track record of building support and technical relationship management teams that enhance customer success. Before Nasuni, she built and launched the technical support programs at Idiom Technologies and several other early-stage companies. Barrie began her career as a software developer before realizing she loved working with and supporting customers more.

An avid hiker and traveler, Barrie is also a mother of four. She holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Brandeis University.

Matt McDonald

Sr. Vice President, Engineering

Matt McDonald is responsible for product development, quality assurance, and release engineering at Nasuni.

Matt is a data storage expert and owns a number of patents related to distributed object storage. Upon joining Nasuni in 2010 as part of the architecture team, he designed and developed the backbone of the Nasuni UniFS global file system. Before Nasuni, he was a Lead Architect and Development Group Manager at Archivas through its acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems. Archivas is now the basis for the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP).

Matt began his career in Data General’s CLARiiON group, which was acquired by EMC. From the EMC CLARiiON group, he moved to the EMC Centera group, where he helped build one of the first large-scale distributed object storage systems, tackling various technical challenges related to storing large numbers of objects.

Matt has a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an MBA degree from Babson College.

Kathleen Parrish

Chief People Officer

Kathleen Parrish leads all strategic HR functions in support of Nasuni’s aggressive growth and revenue goals.

Kathleen has 20 years of HR leadership experience in a diverse mix of industries and companies, from globally recognized brands such as Royal Caribbean to growth-driven technology startups. She has overseen employee relations, managed and supported large, complex organizations with employees distributed around the world, and guided companies through tremendous growth periods. Most recently at Demandware, Kathleen grew the company from 200 to more than 1,000 employees through its initial public offering, while also building a culture of engagement, agility, and innovation.

Kathleen is now building that same culture at Nasuni. Working as a strategic partner to all key business functions, she assists with the planning and forecasting of the company’s needs, acquires and retains talent across all departments, and provides management training, leadership development and other key functions for our fast-growing company.

A dog-lover and avid traveler who has visited more than 50 countries, Kathleen has a BS degree in Business from Northeastern University.

Asim Zaheer

Chief Marketing Officer

Asim Zaheer is responsible for scaling Nasuni’s global go-to-market strategy. In particular, Zaheer will be focused on Nasuni marketing functions including demand generation, awareness marketing, product marketing, EMEA marketing and customer marketing. Zaheer brings over 25 years of technology marketing experience from companies of all sizes. Prior to Nasuni, he served as CMO of Glassbox and spent more than 10 years as CMO of Hitachi Vantara, helping launch the company and drive its multi-billion-dollar IT business.

Asim holds a BS from the University of Connecticut and an MBA from the University of Hartford.