Following a 23-year career with IBM, Greg Enriquez, senior vice president, Field Operations, joined Stratus in March 2004. His previous experience made him uniquely qualified to take responsibility for Stratus' global sales and business development initiatives. At IBM, he had been vice president, Worldwide Industry Sales and Enablement, Software Group with responsibility for middleware products to meet market-specific needs of the 15 vertical-industry sales organizations. Among his other executive management assignments at IBM, he assumed leadership of the Tivoli Americas sales organization as vice president after IBM had acquired that company. He also held the position of vice president and business line executive in charge of HDD, Storage Technology Division, as well as a number of other management posts before that.