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Russ has more than 20 years experience in the storage industry, and is responsible for product management, product marketing and establishing key technical and go-to market alliances. Prior to joining Cleversafe, Russ was the Senior Director for Product Marketing and Strategy at Pillar Data Systems, a San Jose-based storage solutions provider. Russ also spent 19 years at StorageTek. During his career at StorageTek, Russ also led the StorageTek Software Development organization and was responsible for delivering many world class software solutions, including StorageTek's flagship VSM product. He also was the Chief Technology Officer for the Information Lifecycle Management Solutions Business Unit in Sun's Data Management Group. In that position, he was responsible for a portfolio of solutions designed to help customers address their storage and compliance challenges though ILM. Russ has an MBA from the University of Colorado at Denver and a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Colorado State University. | 