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Management Team
Asempra has assembled a world-class team of engineers and business professionals that combine extensive storage, network management, and enterprise application experience from market-leading technology companies including Cisco, Brocade, McData, Symantec/VERITAS, EMC, Legato, IBM, Sun, Nasa/JPL, and Oracle.
Gary Gysin
President and CEO
Gary brings over twenty years of software and networking experience in early stage and established technology companies. Prior to joining Asempra, Gary was senior vice president of sales and service at McDATA Corporation where he was responsible for setting and executing strategies that resulted in exponential revenue growth through the expansion of strategic partnerships, customer and channel relationships. Gary also held the role of vice president and GM Sanera/Nishan while at McDATA. Before joining McDATA, Gary was the senior vice president of products at Volera, a majority owned subsidiary of Novell. Earlier roles at Volera included vice president of product management and business development. Prior to Volera, Gary held a variety of executive leadership roles including president and CEO of PGSoft, and vice president at Crosswise Corporate, WorldTalk and Touch Communications. Gary holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California Santa Cruz.
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Siew Sim-Tang
Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder
Siew has over twenty years of software engineering experience spanning a wide range of industries, from banking, data storage, to computer networking. Large systems and complex connectivity are a constant and central theme in Siew's engineering career, characterized by her extensive experience in legacy architectures and innovative approach to problem solving. Prior to co-founding Asempra, Siew was the founder and CTO of Prismedia (later Acirro), where she invented and architected a large payload distributed system embedded in a WAN file system (GDFS). In the process, she had authored and filed 16 patents. Prior to founding her own startups, Siew was an architect at StarQuest, where she built the CTRC (Cisco Transactional Connection — an IBM CICS transaction gateway) and CDBC (Cisco Database Connection) for Cisco routers. Before joining StarQuest, Siew had worked at Stanford University's Academic Software Development Group (where she worked on a distributed multimedia database), as well as Cisco Systems, GO Corporation, Apple Computer, and POSB Savings Bank in Singapore. Siew holds a Diploma in Electronics & Communication Engineering from Singapore Polytechnic, a B.S. in Computer Science from Arizona State University, and an M.S. Computer Science in Distributed Systems with focus on Distributed Databases from Stanford University.
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Joseph Wang
Vice President of Engineering
With over twenty-five years of Software Development experience in High Tech, Joseph has expertise in leading and delivering innovative products for mission critical systems and applications. Most recently, he was the Sr. Director of Development for Mendocino Software's InfiniView product suite for Data Protection, Recovery, and Replication based on leading edge continuous data protection technology. Prior to joining Mendocino, he served as Sr. Director of Engineering for AppManager, which accounted for over $100M in annual revenue for NetIQ. At NetIQ he drove a new Control Center Architecture, improving AppManager's scalability tenfold and delivering high performance cross-platform solutions in UNIX/Linux environments. He also held senior development roles for Cisco's IOS/VoIP/CAR product line, Bay Networks Optivity NMS, and Fujitsu's NetWalker NMS Platform. Joseph has a B.S. in Engineering from National Taiwan University and a M.S. of Engineering and Telecommunication Certificate from UC Berkeley.
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Michael Hughes
Vice President of Sales
Michael has been in the technology and software business for 18 years in various sales and management roles. Prior to joining Asempra, Michael was in a several sales management roles at McData including general manager, Northern Europe and vice president of strategic OEM partners. Before joining McDATA, he was director of sales and channels for Invio, a storage software developer that pioneered the automation segment. His experience also encompasses several executive positions at Marimba, including vice president of embedded products and director of business development. At Marimba he was responsible for building a new business segment in the embedded arena and developing channel and partner/distributor relationships. Prior to Marimba, Michael held direct sales and account management roles with IBI, Cincom and Pomeroy Computer Resources. Michael has experience in building and managing direct and partner sales teams in these roles and he is passionate about providing customers with real value. He holds a B.S. degree in business from Miami University and an MBA from the University of Michigan.
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Mike Morando
Vice President of Business Development
Mike joins the Asempra team with 20 years of Business Development, OEM Sales, and International Sales experience in the areas of storage, software, and networking. Most recently Mike was senior vice president of sales at Incipient Inc. where his team established strong partnerships with HP, IBM, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems, Brocade, and Cisco. Prior to Incipient, Mike was senior director of Software Alliances at Brocade (BRCD) responsible for establishing revenue and technology agreements. Prior to Brocade, Mike was director of sales at Rhapsody Networks (acquired by Brocade) where he established agreements with OEMs and International distribution channels. Mike began his storage networking career at Gadzoox Networks where he was senior director of OEM Sales. At Gadzoox, Mike and his team delivered 80% of Gadzoox’s revenues at the time of the IPO. Mike has also held sales and management roles at Fujikura America, ETOS, and AMP. He holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of San Francisco where he graduated cum laude.
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Jonathan Buckley
Vice President of Outbound Marketing
Jonathan Buckley has a decade-long history in ramp up, pre-positioning and turnaround technology ventures, both public and venture-backed. Most recently, Jonathan served as Chief Marketing Officer of Intel Capital-backed Nirvanix, from startup to its being recognized as the premier “cloud storage” provider in the enterprise storage space with an enviable list of Fortune 500 customers, global press and analyst coverage. Prior to Nirvanix, as VP of Marketing for Sequoia Capital-backed PowerFile, Inc., this Sony-branded optical electronics company was remade into an enterprise storage company and among other notable things “Startups to Watch.” As the VP of Marketing for the software, internetworking and blade switch businesses lines at the-then public company, McDATA Corporation, Buckley’s efforts resulted in a turnaround and 50% year-over-year growth of those business lines.Prior to McDATA, he was a founding team member and VP of Marketing and Business Development for Venrock Capital-backed NetBrowser Communications, an enterprise software company that delivered a unified management solution for mission-critical infrastructure of Fortune 500 companies worldwide and was purchased in 2003. Jonathan holds a B.A. in Economics from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
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Mark Bagby
Chief Financial Officer
Mark is responsible for financial operations and corporate infrastructure at Asempra, as well as legal and human resources. He has held CFO positions with various software, internet, and security companies. Some of these companies include Azuro, Skyfire Labs, netZentry, Sapphire Design, CardoNet, Cyberonix, ATrade, CornerHardware.com. Mark has specialized in numerous emerging stage / high growth companies through advisory and consulting roles. These companies include Exemplary, Simplex, Sequence, Noosh, NetFlix, APPower, InHale Therapeutics, NVIDIA, Radia Communications, CICC, Sibyte and others. With over 25 years of financial experience, Mark has coordinated over $300 million in venture capital/corporate capital financings. Mark holds an MBA from Santa Clara University, an MA in Economics from Tulane University, an MCS from NC Berkeley, and a BS in Economics & Business from Westmont College.
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