Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize and collaborate on files across all locations at scale. Nasuni Cloud File Services™, powered by the Nasuni UniFS® global file system, leverages cloud storage to modernize primary NAS and file server storage; archiving; backup; and disaster recovery, while offering transformational new capabilities for multi-site file sharing.


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Chip is a General Partner at [Flybridge](/org/flybridge) Capital Partners whose investment interests and experience span companies and technologies in the information technology sector. He currently represents [Flybridge](/org/flybridge) on the boards of 10gen, First Best Systems, [Goby](/org/goby), Infobright, Jingle Networks, [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), Placemark and Sciformix. Previously he was a director at Bowstreet (acquired by IBM), mValent (acquired by Oracle), Reveal Imaging (acquired by [SAIC](/org/saic)) and SupplyScape (acquired by [TraceLink](/org/tracelink)).

Before joining [Flybridge](/org/flybridge), Chip was a General Partner with [Greylock](/org/greylock) Partners, where he led or participated in numerous successful investments in the enterprise information technology field including Narrative Communications (acquired by @Home), Idiom Technologies (acquired by SDL), iPhrase Technologies (acquired by IBM), IBA (acquired by ServiceSoft/Kana), Storage Networks (IPO), Totality (acquired by MCI) and the Vincam Group (IPO in 1996, acquired by ADP).

Prior to [Greylock](/org/greylock), Chip was with Company Assistance Limited, an investment and consulting firm in Warsaw, Poland, and Bain and Company, an international management consulting firm. Chip received a BA with honors from [Stanford University](/org/stanford) and an MBA from [Harvard Business School](/org/harvard-business-school), where he was a Baker Scholar and a Ford Scholar.

Chip Hazard

Jason DePardo is responsible for global customer support and professional services at [Nasuni](/org/nasuni). He is charged with delivering world-class service and achieving top ratings in customer satisfaction as we add the world’s largest enterprises to our customer roster.

Jason has an extensive track record leading and growing successful customer service teams for mission-critical IT and cloud infrastructure vendors. After spending 9 years in Engineering and Customer Support at EMC, Jason became Director, Global Technical Support at Isilon Systems, where he helped grow the support organization by a factor of 10, expanding the team to 8 support centers and over 300 employees. When EMC acquired Isilon, Jason led the integration of the Isilon support team into the EMC support organization.

Jason next spent 4 years as Director, Global Customer Support at SimpliVity, where he was responsible for all aspects of customer support. During Jason’s tenure, SimpliVity grew from $10M in annual revenues to $125M, achieved a Net Promoter Score of 90, and maintained an industry-leading customer satisfaction rating of 94%, leading to the company’s acquisition by [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](/org/hewlett-packard-enterprise).

A married father of three boys, Jason has a BS in Computer Science from [Worcester Polytechnic Institute](/org/worcester-polytechnic-institute) (WPI) and an MBA from [Northeastern University](/org/northeastern-university).

Jason DePardo

Cheryle is vice president of marketing, responsible for elevating [Nasuni](/org/nasuni)’s brand, driving demand for its solutions worldwide, and ensuing a positive customer experience. She oversees corporate and product marketing, demand generation, corporate communications and marketing operations. Cheryle brings over 20 years of experience in developing corporate marketing strategies and executing integrated marketing programs that drive strong customer engagement via direct and indirect sales channels.

Prior to joining [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), Cheryle was Vice President at [Hospital IQ](/org/hospital-iq) and has held various marketing leadership roles in several successful young technology companies including Raptor Systems, Interliant, Seahorse BioScience, and most notably EqualLogic which was purchased by Dell in 2008 for $1.4B. At Dell, she then led the Global Storage Marketing team contributing to its growth of over $750M in just 3 years, as well as spent 3 years developing and executing global hardware and software campaigns across the full enterprise product portfolio.

Cushion earned a BS in business administration (marketing concentration) from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Cheryle Cushion

As President & CRO at Chainalysis, Thomas Stanley is responsible for the performance, strategy and alignment of revenue operations, including worldwide sales, partner sales, alliances, customer success, services and sales operations. In close partnership with Chainalysis’ Executive Leadership Team, Stanley’s primary focus is fueling the next stage global growth in private & public sector markets around the globe.

Stanley is a 32-year technology industry veteran with experience in both the private and public sectors. From 2019-2021 he was Chief Revenue Office at Tanium where he was responsible for go-to-market operations globally. Prior to Tanium, he served as senior vice president and general manager of the Americas for NetApp, where he was responsible for direct and indirect sales, engineering, professional services, business development, finance, operations and marketing across North America, South America, and U.S. Public Sector. During his 13-year tenure at NetApp, he also held positions as senior vice president of Global Partner Sales and Alliances, and was recognized externally as one of CRN’s most influential channel chiefs. Prior to NetApp, he held sales and technical roles at SGI and IBM.

Stanley is a passionate advocate for education, science and technology, youth advancement, leadership development and diversity and inclusion. He currently serves as a board director for The Foundation at North Carolina A&T State University, Sprout Social, Nasuni, and Boys Hope Girls Hope Network. He is also an active member in the Executive Leadership Council.

Stanley holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from North Carolina A&T State University and an MBA from the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota.

Thomas Stanley

David Grant is responsible for all field operations, which include sales, marketing, alliances, professional services, customer success and experience.

Dave is a veteran marketer with 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles at software companies – from startups to multibillion-dollar operations. He joined Nasuni from Veeam Software, where he was the senior vice president of global marketing. Prior to Veeam, he served as the vice president, marketing at VMware. Dave also served as the CMO at two startups. Desktone, acquired by VMware, and Watchfire, acquired by IBM.

Dave has a master’s in finance from Dalhousie University and a bachelor’s in marketing from Saint Mary’s University.

David Grant

Dean Breda

Eric Soffin leads sales for the North America Central Region at [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), working closely with our partners to help customers solve their enterprise file storage challenges and accelerate cloud and digital transformation.

Eric joined [Nasuni](/org/nasuni) in 2011, when many enterprises were still wary of leveraging the cloud for storage, data protection, and other file services. As public cloud storage platforms became more secure and [Nasuni](/org/nasuni) added support for on-premises object storage platforms, those concerns vanished, and Eric and his sales team signed numerous Fortune 500 enterprises across many industries, including architecture, engineering and construction; healthcare; manufacturing; retail and consumer goods; and pharmaceuticals.

Eric started his career as a sales representative for Compuserve Network Services. At [Pinnacle Data Systems](/org/pinnacle-data-systems-llc), he grew his region from $3M in annual sales to $20M. After a sales leadership role at I/O virtualization provider [Egenera](/org/egenera), Eric took over the U.S. Central region for IT management provider Akorri and rapidly grew its business until the company was acquired by [NetApp](/org/netapp).

Eric has a BA degree in Marketing from [Western Michigan University](/org/western-michigan-university).

Eric Soffin

Bob Davoli is a board member representing Sigma Partners’ investment in [Nasuni](/org/nasuni).

Bob’s ability to identify and motivate innovative founding teams has been an essential ingredient of his investment success. His other investments have included [Aprimo](/org/aprimo), [Azuki](/org/azuki), [Cerulean](/org/cerulean-advanced-fitness-and-wellness), Dazel, eDOCS, Initiate, m-Qube, Octane, Rave, StorageNetworks, Tradex, Vignette, and [Virtusa](/org/virtusa).

Prior to joining Sigma Partners, Bob was President & CEO of Epoch Systems, a leading vendor of client-server data management software, acquired by EMC. Previously, he was the Founder, President and CEO of SQL Solutions, a leading provider of services and tools for the relational database market acquired by Sybase.

In recent years, Bob has appeared five times on the Forbes’ Midas list, a ranking of top venture capitalists. He also appeared on the cover of Business Week in a features story describing how VCs thrive through good and tough times. He is also an avid musician.

Bob has a BA degree in History from Ricker College and studied computer science at [Northeastern University](/org/northeastern-university) for two years.

Robert E. Davoli

Russ Kennedy drives product innovation at [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), leading the company’s product management, planning, and roadmap efforts. He has a maniacal focus on ensuring [Nasuni](/org/nasuni) customers derive maximum benefit from our technology.

Russ is a well-known and highly regarded storage industry executive, with more than 25 years of experience developing software and hardware solutions to address exponential data growth. Before [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), Russ directed product strategy at private cloud object storage pioneer Cleversafe through its $1.3 billion acquisition by IBM. While Russ was helping transition the product to what is now IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS), he began working with IBM partner [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), and became convinced [Nasuni](/org/nasuni)’s cloud-native global file system is the only data management technology that truly exploits the strengths of object storage.

Earlier in his career, Russ served in a variety of product management and development roles, most notably at StorageTek (acquired by Sun Microsystems), where he brought several industry-leading products to market.

An avid cyclist and hiker, Russ resides in Boulder, Colorado with his family. He has a BS degree in Computer Science from [Colorado State University](/org/colorado-state-university) and an MBA degree from the University of Colorado.

Russ Kennedy

Nasuni Founder and CTO Andres Rodriguez brings passion and energy to his role refining and communicating [Nasuni](/org/nasuni)’s technology strategy.

Andres was previously Founder and CEO at Archivas, creator of the first enterprise-class cloud storage system. Acquired by [Hitachi](/org/hitachi) Data Systems, Archivas is now the basis for the [Hitachi](/org/hitachi) Content Platform (HCP). After supporting the worldwide rollout of HCP as [Hitachi](/org/hitachi)’s CTO of File Services and seeing the Archivas team and technology successfully integrated, Andres turned his attention to his next venture, [Nasuni](/org/nasuni) (NAS Unified). Delivering value-added enterprise file services on top of cloud object storage was the natural progression of Andres’ cloud storage vision.

Before founding Archivas, Andres was CTO at the New York Times, where his ideas for digital content storage, protection, and access were formed. He joined The Times through its acquisition of Abuzz, the pioneering social networking company Andres co-founded.

Andres has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a Master of Physics degree from [Boston University](/org/boston-university). He holds numerous patents and is an avid swimmer.

Andres Rodriguez

Mr. Joel D. Reich joined the Board of [Nasuni](/org/nasuni) in December of 2019. Prior to that he was has Executive Vice President of Product Operations at [NetApp](/org/netapp), Inc. from June 2015 until his retirement in August 0f 2019.

Mr. Reich was responsible for overseeing the strategy, development and manufacturing operations of the [NetApp](/org/netapp) product and solutions portfolio.

During his seventeen-year career at [NetApp](/org/netapp) he played an instrumental role in positioning [NetApp](/org/netapp) as a leader in the enterprise and cloud storage markets.

He also served as Senior Vice President of the E-Series Products Group (acquisition of Engenio from LSI Corp))  at [NetApp](/org/netapp) from April 2011 until May of 2015.

Prior to that Mr. Reich served as Vice President and General Manager  of the SAN/iSAN Business Unit at [NetApp](/org/netapp), Inc. Mr. Reich’s responsibilities at [NetApp](/org/netapp) included interaction and education with key market analysts, customers and the press, establishing him as a thought leader among the storage community. Prior to joining [NetApp](/org/netapp) in 2002, Mr. Reich was vice president of Marketing and Product Operations at HighGround Systems, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2001. He also held the position of Director of product management at Data General Corporation and EMC Corporation (CLARiiON Group) and was director of product for Conner Peripherals Storage Systems Group.

Over the past 30 years Mr. Reich has been integral to defining and introducing ‘industry firsts,’ including the world’s first 3.5-inch hard disk drive, the first disk array for open systems, the first end-to-end Fibre Channel RAID system and the first unified storage system. Mr. Reich holds a bachelor’s degree from [Lehigh University](/org/lehigh-university) in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Joel Reich

John Capello plays an instrumental role directing [Nasuni](/org/nasuni)’s product strategy, and can often be found working with customers and technology partners to understand their requirements and identify new use cases for [Nasuni](/org/nasuni)’s global file system.

Before joining [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), John was Vice President of Product at fast growing startups Abuzz (acquired by [The New York Times](/org/new-york-times)) and Tabblo (acquired by Hewlett-Packard). He also served as a general manager for [The New York Times](/org/new-york-times) Digital and as a consultant for McKinsey and Company.

Earlier in his career, John worked as an independent consultant for a leading pharmaceutical company, an innovative CAD developer, and a green energy monitoring startup, helping them make greater use of analytics in their respective businesses.

John earned his MBA degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he was the recipient of the McKinsey Award. He also graduated from [Harvard University](/org/harvard) with a BA degree in Social Studies and Music.

John Capello

David Campbell is Managing Director in the [Goldman Sachs](/org/goldman-sachs) Growth Equity Investing Group, focused on growth stage technology companies. He led [Nasuni](/org/nasuni)’s last round of financing and was a keynote speaker at [Nasuni](/org/nasuni) Summit 2017 discussing the state of data management and why [Goldman Sachs](/org/goldman-sachs) invested in [Nasuni](/org/nasuni).

Prior to joining the Investment Division, he served various roles within the [Goldman Sachs](/org/goldman-sachs) Technology Division, including Manager of Systems Infrastructure in Asia, Manager of Global Storage, and Manager of Global Infrastructure Architecture and Strategy, making him the rare technology investor with real IT operating experience.

David joined [Goldman Sachs](/org/goldman-sachs) in 1994 and was named technology fellow in 2002. Prior to joining [Goldman Sachs](/org/goldman-sachs), he worked in super computer research and development in Japan and operating system and real time system development in Australia.

In addition to [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), he serves as a Director at Terracotta, AppSense, [Applause](/org/applause), Surgient, SchemaLogic, [ScienceLogic](/org/sciencelogic), [MetricStream](/org/metricstream), Spiceworks, and serves on the boards of [AvePoint](/org/avepoint-public-sector-inc), BackOffice Associates, and [CyberArk](/org/cyberark).

David received a BS degree in Electrical Engineering and a BA degree in Japanese from Queensland University, Australia.

David Campbell

Barrie has been a tireless advocate for [Nasuni](/org/nasuni) customers since joining the company in 2011 as a Senior Technical Support Engineer. Her role has grown steadily, mirroring [Nasuni](/org/nasuni)’s growth, and she has taken on a variety of customer-facing positions including Manager, Technical Support; Director, Technical Relationship Management; and Vice President, Customer Success.

Barrie is known as a technically skilled, customer-focused executive with a track record of building support and technical relationship management teams that enhance customer success. Before [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), she built and launched the technical support programs at Idiom Technologies and several other early-stage companies. Barrie began her career as a software developer before realizing she loved working with and supporting customers more.

Barrie holds a BS degree in Computer Science from [Brandeis University](/org/brandeis-university).

Barrie Kuza

Kathleen Parrish leads all strategic HR functions in support of [Nasuni](/org/nasuni)’s aggressive growth and revenue goals.

Kathleen has 20 years of HR leadership experience in a diverse mix of industries and companies, from globally recognized brands such as Royal Caribbean to growth-driven technology startups. She has overseen employee relations, managed and supported large, complex organizations with employees distributed around the world, and guided companies through tremendous growth periods. Most recently at Demandware, Kathleen grew the company from 200 to more than 1,000 employees through its initial public offering, while also building a culture of engagement, agility, and innovation.

Kathleen is now building that same culture at [Nasuni](/org/nasuni). Working as a strategic partner to all key business functions, she assists with the planning and forecasting of the company’s needs, acquires and retains talent across all departments, and provides management training, leadership development and other key functions for our fast-growing company.

A dog-lover and avid traveler who has visited more than 50 countries, Kathleen has a BS degree in Business from [Northeastern University](/org/northeastern-university).

Kathleen Parrish

Paul Flanagan is responsible for all aspects of [Nasuni](/org/nasuni)’s global operations. He is focused on building a world-class team of innovators whose common goal is to leverage the cloud to reinvent enterprise file storage.

Paul has a wealth of experience building and leading high growth companies. As an operating executive, he has raised over a billion dollars of financing and has taken two companies from start-up to IPO with capitalizations over $1 billion. Paul has served as CEO at Rave Mobile Safety and StorageNetworks (IPO: Nasdaq), CFO at VistaPrint, now [Cimpress](/org/cimpress) (IPO: Nasdaq), and VP of Finance at Lasertron (Acquired: [Corning](/org/corning-inc)) and Vitol Gas and Electric (Acquired: Coral Energy).

Paul has also spent 12 years as co-founder and managing director at Sigma Prime Ventures and as a managing director at Sigma Partners, where he led investments in Wordstream (acquired: [Gannett](/org/gannett)), Bionx (acquired: Ottoboch), ReThink Robotics, [High Street Partners](/org/high-street-partners) (acquired: HG Capital/Nair), [Contently](/org/contently), and NS1. Paul is also a founding investor and board member for [Nasuni](/org/nasuni).

Paul started his career at Ernst & Young and is a graduate of [Bentley University](/org/bentley-university). He is Boston, through and through.

Paul Flanagan

Ray has more than 20 years of financial and operational leadership experience across multiple industries, with an emphasis on scaling emerging technology companies. Prior to rejoining Nasuni, Ray held the position of Chief Financial Officer at Clinc, Inc., a conversational artificial intelligence platform which enables enterprises to utilize natural language processing to power exceptional customer experiences. Prior to Clinc, Ray was Vice President of Finance at Nasuni for nearly five years.

Prior to Nasuni, Ray led the global finance team at Demandware, Inc., (IPO: NYSE) the category-defining leader of enterprise cloud commerce solutions, where he saw the number of employees grow from 150 to 800 and annual recurring revenue increase from $20 million to $230 million, whilst completing three successful acquisitions. Ray supported the initial public offering and follow-on offering, which raised approximately $300 million and resulted in a market capitalization of over $3 billion.

Ray holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Seton Hall University and a Master of Business Administration from Providence College.

Raymond Hale

Matt McDonald is responsible for product development, quality assurance, and release engineering at [Nasuni](/org/nasuni).

Matt is a data storage expert and owns a number of patents related to distributed object storage. Upon joining [Nasuni](/org/nasuni) in 2010 as part of the architecture team, he designed and developed the backbone of the [Nasuni](/org/nasuni) UniFS global file system. Before [Nasuni](/org/nasuni), he was a Lead Architect and Development Group Manager at Archivas through its acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems. Archivas is now the basis for the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP).

Matt began his career in Data General’s CLARiiON group, which was acquired by EMC. From the EMC CLARiiON group, he moved to the EMC Centera group, where he helped build one of the first large-scale distributed object storage systems, tackling various technical challenges related to storing large numbers of objects.

With an infant at home and a passion for delivering the next generation of file storage, Matt is still trying to find time for a round of golf. He has a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an MBA degree from [Babson College](/org/babson-college).

Matt McDonald

Jeff McCarthy is a [Nasuni](/org/nasuni) board member representing the investment in our company from North Bridge Venture Partners.

Jeff previously supported [Nasuni](/org/nasuni) Founder Andres Rodriguez in his previous venture, Archivas, which was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems. Jeff was also a lead investor in A123, an advanced battery maker that achieved a successful initial public offering.

Prior to becoming an investor, Jeff had a distinguished career in sales and operations. As President and CEO of New Oak Communications, a leading provider of extranet access switches, he oversaw all operations and shepherded the company through its acquisition by [Bay Networks](/org/bay-networks). Jeff stayed on after the acquisition as VP and General Manager of the Access Division.

Before New Oak, Jeff was VP of Sales and Business Development at Cadia Networks, a developer of ATM concentrator products for the service provider marketplace. Jeff also held various senior management positions earlier in his career, including VP of Carrier Operations at Wellfleet Communications/Bay Networks.

A magna cum laude graduate of Northeastern University, School of Management, Jeff received his MBA degree from Bentley College.

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