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Nelson comes to the board of Gear6 with over 30 years of industry experience including positions as vice president of worldwide sales for grid storage vendor Spinnaker Networks which was acquired by Network Appliance in 2004 for $319 million, and most recently as president and CEO of secure storage vendor MaXXan Systems. Earlier in his career, Nelson held the role of GM and senior vice president for HAL Computer Systems and Amdahl Corporation, both Fujitsu business units, and was a founding member and the first sales employee of Convex Computer Corporation, later to become vice president and GM of western operations. Nelson also held senior sales management positions at Data General and Control Data. Nelson received a BS in Business from Indiana University. | 