ParaScale Management Team

Sajai Krishnan drives overall strategy and business execution for ParaScale. Before ParaScale, he was General Manager of the StoreVault Division of NetApp, responsible for creating and developing the division's multi-national efforts within the mid-market segment. StoreVault won more industry awards than any other product in NetApp history, and VARBusiness magazine awarded its channel program five stars, placing it in the top bracket in 2008. Prior to this appointment, Krishnan was the General Manager of NetApp’s Storage Management Software business, overseeing the company's core management software offerings. Before joining NetApp, Krishnan was vice president at management consultant Booz Allen & Hamilton, and was a partner in the company's Communications, Media & Technology (CMT) practice. While there he served clients in the wireless, software, telecommunications, cable, networking, and systems arenas. Krishnan started his career as a software engineer at Sun Microsystems. Krishnan has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in addition to a master’s degree in computer science from Rice University. His B.S. is in electronics engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.

Cameron leads the technology direction and manages engineering at ParaScale, bringing over 20 years of systems software development and deep expertise in distributed operating systems, filesystems and data center management. Earlier, Cameron led design, deployment, and operation of Scale8's distributed Internet storage service that provided storage for digital content owners including MSN and Viacom/MTV. At the HP Enterprise Systems Technology Lab, he developed system software for disk volume management, data security, and utility data center management. At Teradata, Cameron developed extensions to UNIX to allow the massive parallel processing required by the Teradata database, the world's largest and fastest distributed RDBMS. Cameron started his career at Locus Computing, a pioneer in distributed operating systems, single-system image clustering, and distributed file systems. Cameron holds a BS, summa cum laude, and an MS with honors, in Electrical Engineering from UC Irvine. Cameron holds 4 patents in scalable distributed storage systems, virtual file systems, and high availability systems.

Norris has over 20 years of enterprise software experience with leading virtualization and storage technology companies, both private and public organizations. During this time, he has catapulted start-ups including Rainfinity, the leader in network file virtualization acquired by EMC, to a leader in its respective marketplace and successfully directed the integration of its technology into EMC’s virtualization portfolio. Most recently, Norris served as vice president of marketing for Wanova, an early-stage desktop virtualization software provider; and previously held senior executive roles with Aster Data, Brio Technology, SQRIBE, and Bain Consulting. Norris holds an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management, and a BA in economics with honors and distinction from Stanford University.

Victor Neeley brings more than 20 years of sales management experience to his role at ParaScale. Victor has a successful track record in both start-ups and turnarounds, which has resulted in three acquisitions. He was Vice President of Sales at Evault, where he established a high-performance sales organization that delivered storage software, software as a service (SaaS), disaster recovery, business continuity, and email compliance services. Seagate acquired Evault in January 2007 for $185 million. Neeley’s track record for growing sales and increasing customer retention also encompasses his senior level positions at Axcient, MFN, NorthPoint, WinStar, and Allnet. He holds a B.S. in Finance from CSUC.

Adrienne has over 20 years of experience building and managing high performance engineering teams, most recently at NetApp. She has held various senior management positions at NetApp, including Senior Director of NetCache Engineering in which she built an engineering organization that delivered the market-leading caching product. Additionally, she has managed complex multi-disciplinary programs including NetApp's critical virtualization play and the IBM OEM relationship amongst others. Adrienne has also managed the Solaris Kernel Group at Sun Microsystems, Inc., the Xmedia Group at Digital Equipment Corporation, and has held various positions at Olivetti's Advanced Technology Center. Adrienne holds a Bachelor’s in Computer Science from Mills College, and a Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Mark is one of the key early technical leads at ParaScale and contributes to the scalability and availability features of the ParaScale product. Mark has held senior engineering and management roles at Sun Microsystems and Locus Computing. Most recently Mark served on the Solaris architecture committee at Sun during his 12-year tenure in the Solaris Products Group. Earlier, Mark was a founding member of two start-ups: he was chief engineer and lead architect at Segue Software (IPO in 1996) and architect and development manager at Interactive Systems (acquired by Kodak in 1991). At the start of his career, Mark did research in Security Kernel research at UCLA and software development for the ARPA Network Measurement Center. Mark has extensive experience on operating systems, platform support, file systems, multi-processor support, distributed systems, high availability and management infrastructure. Mark holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from UCLA with honors and holds 18 patents in operating systems and high availability.

Oleg Kiselev drives the technical vision and architecture for ParaScale’s cloud storage solutions. He joined ParaScale from Symantec, which acquired Veritas in 2005. As a Senior Director of Engineering and a Distinguished Engineer at Symantec, Kiselev led teams in the Storage Foundations division of the Data Center Management business unit. Kiselev has been granted 64 patents in the areas of storage management and clustering, and served as a member of Symantec’s Patent Filter Committee and open source Intellectual Property Review Board. Starting at Veritas when the company was still a tiny startup, Kiselev was instrumental in development and architecture of its flagship products including Volume Manager and Cluster Volume Manager. He was also active in SNIA’s Object Storage Working Group. Mr. Kiselev joined Veritas from Locus Computing Corporation, the early pioneer in single system image clustering and distributed UNIX, where he was a member of the operating system group.