Intransa Appoints Thomas Alexander as President & CEO
SAN JOSE, California - July 11, 2005
Intransa, the global leader in network-centric, enterprise IP-storage systems, today announced the appointment of Thomas Alexander as president and CEO. A seasoned technology executive, Alexander will set the pace for Intransa's next level of growth and build the company's position as a worldwide marketing leader for IP storage area networking (SAN) solutions.
Alexander brings to Intransa nearly two decades of executive experience in the technology sector where he led innovative teams with privately-held startups, mid-range, and large enterprises. Alexander comes to Intransa from U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) where he served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence. Prior to that he served as president and co-founder of LuxN, a leader in the optical metro networking market, where he led the merger of LuxN with Sorrento Networks.
“As the only IP startup with a global presence, Intransa is on the fast-track to becoming the leader in the IP SAN market and I look forward to taking the company to the next level with new partnerships and an expanded customer base,” said Alexander. “Intransa's unique and leading edge IP SAN solutions provide the benefits of networked storage to a much broader range of customers, and with the support of the board, investors, and employees, I anticipate rapid growth and expansion into new markets in the coming year.”
“Under Thomas Alexander's leadership, along with our product growth and global market leadership, I anticipate that the company will accelerate its course in building a strong strategic business utilizing Intransa's network-centric IP SAN technology,” said Stuart Phillips, general partner at USVP and member of the board of directors for Intransa.
“We are grateful for Avi Katz's entrepreneurial leadership in establishing Intransa as a leading player in the emerging IP SAN space,” said Eric Benhamou, chairman of the board of Intransa. “Global market reach, superior technology, and solid customers constitute a sound foundation to build from and I am confident that Thomas Alexander will build upon this success,” Benhamou concluded.
Alexander holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Harvard, a Master of Science (MS) from Rutgers University, and a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering from Guindy Engineering College, Madras, India.
About Intransa
Intransa, Inc. is the leading innovator of shared, scalable and simple external IP storage solutions for video and IT storage. A single DVR can benefit from Intransa storage, increasing reliability and retention while reducing video surveillance cost.
Based in San Jose, CA, Intransa offers scalable, high performance security-grade storage with outstanding availability and price/performance, with built in Set-and-Forget Management for proven ease of use. The company's Video Storage Administrator toolkit is the first in the industry to configure external storage for use in video surveillance and other physical security applications without requiring extensive IT storage knowledge for maximum benefit. Instead, the VSA is configured and administered using familiar frame rate, resolution, retention period and other physical security terms.
Beginning as a 3Com spin-off, Intransa has been shipping shared IP network storage solutions since 2003. Intransa IP storage is available worldwide through authorized StorPartner security and systems integrators. Intransa is an Axis Communications Applications Development Partner, Cisco Ecosystem Provider, Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, and VMware Technology Alliance Partner along with many other industry partnerships through our StorAlliance Technology Partner program.
Intransa believes and supports industry standards, and is a member of the Security Industry Association, the Storage Networking Industry Association and its green storage initiative, and The Green Grid organization for green IT. Intransa employees are also members and supporters of ASIS International and the ASIS Physical Security Council.
For more information about Intransa and our industry-leading sharable, scalable and simple external IP storage solutions, to locate a StorPartner security and systems integrator, or to join the StorAlliance Technology Partner program, please visit us at www.intransa.com.
Intransa, StarterBlock, Intransa Sharable Security Platform, Intransa ISSP, EdgeBlock, BuildingBlock, PerformanceBlock, Security-Grade IP Video Storage, DynaStac, StorStac OS, StorManager, StorStac Snapshot, StorAR, StorCluster, the 3Rs for Video, the 3Ss of IP Storage, Set-and-Forget Management, StorSupport, StorWarranty, StorAlliance and StorPartner are registered names and trademarks of Intransa, Inc. All others are the property of their respective holders.
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