• Chris brings 18 years of storage system design experience from DEC, StorageTek and Compaq Computers.
• He has led engineering teams in architecting, development and delivery, beginning with diagnostics and controllers for 14- inch Winchester drives; then the first host-based RAID; the first controller based RAID product at DEC and comprehensive SAN management software.
• Under his leadership at DEC/Compaq he architected and delivered the industry's first external SAN management appliance, SANworks Management Appliance. At DEC, Chris was responsible for engineering solutions to meet OEM requirements. His efforts led to a new revenue stream for DEC
• Chris holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Colorado Technical University, and a BS in Computer Science from USC.
  

• Will Layton manages all aspects of COPAN's Federal Division which has recognized a 700 percent increase under his management.
• He brings over 20 years of technology industry experience leveraging his deep technical background as programmer, network engineer, VP of Technology, and CTO to his current sales management role.
• He co-founded COPAN Systems in 2002 while assisting Austin Ventures as an entrepreneur in residence with the incubation of server, storage and networking focused technology companies.
• Prior to joining COPAN, he was an “outsourced” Chief Technology Officer for several highly-successful web companies including Opentable.com, Healthallies.com and Pivia.com, and was a patent infringement consultant for Nortel. Previously, he was Vice President of Information and Internet Systems at Ticketmaster-Citysearch. He also worked with Concentric Network (now XO Communications), MBNA (now Bank of America), and Texas Instruments.

• David Dew is responsible for all hardware and software components related to the persistent data products as well as executing the forward looking direction for future products related to the MAID platform.
• Brings to bear over 20 years of real world experience in the storage industry.
• His background includes prior roles such as Director of Technology at Sun Microsystems, CTO of ILM at Storagetek, CTO of StorageNetworks, CTO of WinStorage, Director of Engineering for BMC Software and Boole and Babbage.
  

• Twenty-five years of technology industry experience, from ownership in a regionally based integration business to successful preparation and launch of a corporate public equity offering
• His experience includes individual, regional, international and global sales responsibility. He has a track record of sales, relationship, and management success
• In over seven years of employment at McDATA Corporation, he held the positions of Vice President of Southeastern and World-wide Federal Sales and Vice President of OEM Sales and Channel Development. At Brocade Communications, Inc. he held the position of Vice President of OEM Sales and Channel Development and Vice President of Strategic Alliances.
• His responsibilities included the successful production of total revenue for two public companies, enhancing shareholder value throughout his tenure.
• He holds a BA degree from St. Anslem's College, Manchester, N.H. He attended the University of Southern Mississippi in post graduate studies and was a graduate assistant at Yale University School of Medicine
• He was an instructor pilot and "Top Gun" Captain in the US Air Force.

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