Barry A. Rudolph

Barry A. Rudolph began his career in January 1978. He has held numerous senior level positions with IBM in a variety of functional areas, including operations, engineering, product development, test and assurance, program management, field support and direct manufacturing until his retirement in November 2010. Most recently he was Vice President, System Networking, with responsibility for delivering overall networking product strategy, portfolio management and profit and loss management over each of the products in the group. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Rudolph was Vice President, Strategy and Stack Integration for IBM Storage, responsible for establishing the overall strategy, driving all decisions on portfolio investments for the storage business and integrating with other areas within IBM including IBM’s Global Services and Software organizations. Prior positions Mr. Rudolph held include Vice President for IBM’s Disk, SAN & NAS Storage Systems where he was responsible for all aspects of the Disk, SAN and NAS storage business within IBM, including profit and loss, product portfolio investments, go-to-market strategy and execution and customer support. He has also held an identical role with responsibility for IBM’s tape business. For 3 Years, Mr. Rudolph served as an independent director, member of the compensation committee and governance and nominating committee for Dot Hill Systems. In July 2014, Mr. Rudolph was named CEO of VelociData, Inc., a firm that specializes in high-performance data transformation and process offload in large corporations. He is also a current independent director for Spectra Logic, a provider of innovative solutions for archival and deep storage to enable data for analytics. Mr. Rudolph holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.