Ashok Krishnamurthi
Vice Chairman and Founder

Ashok Krishnamurthi is a co-founder of Xsigo Systems and serves as Executive Chairman. Mr. Krishnamurthi has over 20 years of experience in management and engineering. Prior to Xsigo, he held the positions of Vice President and General Manager of the Infrastructure Product Line at Juniper Networks. Mr. Krishnamurthi has also held engineering and management positions at Sun Microsystems, Philips, Xerox PARC, and AT&T Bell Labs. He has a Master’s degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, and a BS from Manipal, India.

Lloyd Carney
CEO

Lloyd Carney’s 25-year career encompasses a proven track record of leading and growing technology companies. Prior to joining Xsigo, Mr. Carney was general manager of IBM's Netcool Division, which acquired Micromuse where Carney had been chairman and CEO. IBM's Netcool Division provides IT and telecom infrastructure management tools to a variety of customers in enterprise computing, transportation, and wireless networking. Prior to Micromuse, Carney was COO at Juniper Networks, where he oversaw the sales, marketing, engineering, manufacturing, and customer service organizations. He also has headed up three divisions at Nortel Networks, including the Core IP Division, the Wireless Internet Division and the Enterprise Data Division. Mr. Carney currently sits on the Board of Directors at Cypress Semiconductor and at BigBand Networks.

Karen Willem
CFO

As Chief Financial Officer, Karen Willem oversees Xsigo's finance, human resources, legal and facilities operations. Ms. Willem is a veteran of the technology industry, with more than 25 years experience in finance, sales, and general management. Prior to Xsigo, she was CFO and EVP of Openwave Systems, a publicly traded software company in the mobile and messaging space. Before that, Ms. Willem served as executive vice president and CFO of Cassatt Corporation, a utility computing software start-up she co-founded. She was CFO and senior vice president of Brio Software (now Oracle), where she led a highly successful IPO and subsequent merger with Sqribe Technologies. Her other leadership roles include president and CEO of Viewcentral, and executive sales and finance positions at Network General Corp., Gupta Inc., Avantek, Inc. (now Agilent), and Ford Motor Company. Ms. Willem holds a BS degree from Bucknell University and an MBA from University of Pittsburgh.

Kirk Fjeldheim
CIO

As Chief Information Officer, Kirk Fjeldheim brings over 20 years of IT experience to Xsigo. Prior to Xsigo, Kirk was VP of IT and Deployment Technologies Groups for Openwave Systems. Before that, he was CIO and VP of Product Marketing for Cassatt Corporation, a utility cloud software start-up. Kirk started the IT organization for Siebel Systems (now Oracle) where he went through the IPO, high growth expansion of Siebel and the establishment of a global billion dollar company. Kirk also ran the IT organization for Network General and took them through the IPO and startup phase, plus he has done IT forensic consulting for several Law firms in the bay area.

Ariel Cohen
CTO

Prior to joining Xsigo Systems, Dr. Cohen was Principal Scientist and Architect at Topspin Communications. He focused on RDMA-based solutions for virtual I/O, high-performance computing, and databases. Before that, he was the Director of Network Software Research at Bell Labs where he focused on web caching, layer 4-7 switching and load balancing.

Dr. Cohen holds a BS in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and both an MS and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of research papers in the areas of storage systems for multimedia, web switching, and RDMA-based protocols, and holds several patents in these areas.

Glenn Cross
Senior VP of Worldwide Sales and Service

As SVP of worldwide sales and service, Glenn Cross brings over 25 years of global sales leadership in executive roles at enterprise IT companies. Prior to joining Xsigo, Mr. Cross served as VP of sales and service at Meru Networks, a wireless networking firm where he was responsible for leading the worldwide sales and service strategy as well as driving overall revenue growth. Before that he was the SVP of sales at Secure Computing (now McAfee), a security firm. Prior to that he served as EVP Sales at SurfControl (now Websense) where he managed its global sales force and drove substantial growth. Mr. Cross has also held senior roles at firms including Palm, Adobe, Lotus/IBM, Nuance Communications, and at Sun JavaSoft where he took the technology from inception to market dominance in just two years. Mr. Cross holds a B.S. in Economics and Marketing from Florida Southern College.

Cheng Tang
VP Engineering

Cheng Tang is a founding member of Xsigo Systems, and oversees its R&D organization. Mr. Tang has over 18 years experience in engineering and management. He has held positions as principal engineer, engineering manager, and director at Xsigo Systems. Prior to Xsigo, Mr. Tang was senior engineering staff at RedBack Networks leading the microcode development for its routing and subscriber management products. Mr. Tang also served for 3 years at Cisco as senior engineer developing its Ethernet Switch Product, and worked at Hewlett-Packard as UNIX kernel developer.

Mr. Tang holds both BS and MS in Geophysics from Yunnan University and Chinese Academy of Science. He also has MS in Earth Science and Computer Engineering, both from University of California, Santa Cruz.

Jon Toor
VP Marketing

As Vice President of Marketing, Mr. Toor brings over 20 years of storage experience to Xsigo. Prior to Xsigo, he served at ONStor as Vice President of Marketing. Before ONStor, Mr. Toor was Senior Director of Marketing at Maxtor, leading the marketing department of the company's Network Systems Group, a startup NAS vendor. Prior to that, Mr. Toor served for two years as Vice President of Marketing for Micropolis, a developer of hard disk drives. He also worked at Quantum as Director of Marketing, managing the strategic direction of the company's enterprise storage products, and at Seagate, where he served as an engineering manager. Mr. Toor holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, a B.A. in Economics, and an MBA, all from Stanford University.

S. K. Vinod
VP Business Development and Co-founder

S.K. Vinod is a co-founder of Xsigo Systems, and leads its business development efforts. He has over 12 years of experience in marketing and product management of servers, microprocessors, and ASICs. He was previously at Sun Microsystems, where he was responsible for the Blade Server and Entry Server product lines. Prior to Sun, S.K was at Xerox PARC.

Mr. Vinod has an MBA from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia and has completed additional coursework at the University of California, Irvine. . Mr. Vinod served over 12 years in the Merchant Marine.

Bruce Fingles
VP of Product Management, Alliances, and Customer Service

Bruce Fingles is responsible for the Technical Alliances, Product Management and Training functions at Xsigo and brings over 25 years of Information Technology experience. Prior to Xsigo, he was the CIO and head of customer services for Micromuse, which was acquired by IBM. Prior to Micromuse Mr. Fingles ran the infrastructure and customer support functions at numerous software and hardware companies including Oblix, an identity management software company, Recourse Technologies, a security software company, and at Ridge Technologies and Crag Technologies.

Richard Fabiano
VP Finance

Richard Fabiano has served as Vice President of Finance at Xsigo since May, 2006. Prior to Xsigo, Mr. Fabiano was co-founder and Vice President of Finance for NETGEAR Inc., which he joined as a startup through their successful IPO and secondary offering. Mr. Fabiano also held Director of Finance positions with Bay Networks and Tandem Computers where he was Controller for Worldwide Manufacturing Operations. He began his career with IBM Corp., holding finance and accounting positions in Boca Raton, Fla. and Santa Clara, Ca. Mr. Fabiano received a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an M.A. degree in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Richard serves on the Board of Directors for the Keypoint Credit Union, an $800M financial institution in Santa Clara, Ca.

Tony Englese
VP Operations

Tony Englese is responsible for the manufacturing operations at Xsigo and brings over 20 years of manufacturing experience. Prior to Xsigo, he was the Director of Operations Engineering at Atrica where he successfully outsourced volume manufacturing to the Far East, and managed a global group of manufacturing and test engineers. Before Atrica, Mr. Englese was the Director of Operations Engineering at Entrisphere, which was acquired by Ericsson, leading the manufacturing group of a last mile optical access product line. Prior to that, Mr. Englese ran the technical operations group for several hardware companies including Calient Networks, an optical switch vendor and at Tollbridge Technologies, a voice over IP vendor. Mr. Englese holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering Technology, from DeVry University.