Bernard Westwood brings over 20 years of experience in operations and finance in IT technology companies, and is currently serving as VP of Operations at Hipskind. Prior to this, Bernard served as CFO of Syscom Technologies, where he founded and led the Storage and Virtualization practice in the company reaching over $30M in sales in 2013. He also selected as a member of the Partner Advisory Councils with Dell and Riverbed Technologies. During his career, Bernard has also held roles of COO/Director of Technical Services in CTS, MultiSoft, and at Direct Connect Systems / Datalink as one of the founding members who started one of the first Data Storage only Value Added Resellers (VARs) in the US. Earlier in his career, Bernard served as a Captain in the US Air Force where he was assigned to various Programs within the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO).
Bernard holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Ohio University.
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