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Steven D. Merrifield serves as Ciprico's President and Chief Executive Officer joining the company December 2006. Mr. Merrifield was previously Senior Vice President of Hitachi Storage Technologies (GST), a division of Hitachi, where he was also a member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors. As Senior Vice President, Merrifield was in charge of managing the operations and sales organizations of the division following the merger of the IBM Storage Technology Division and Hitachi Hard Drive Company.
From 1978 through the 2003 merger of the two units, Merrifield was a senior executive at IBM, where he served as Vice President of Global Sales of IBM's Technology Group. From 1999 through 2001, he was Vice President in charge of IBM's Dell Strategic Alliance. He also brings experience as IBM's Director of Worldwide Sales and Marketing of the OEM Software Group and the Director of Software and Services for IBM's SMB (Small & Medium Business) Market in Europe. | 