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Management

Bill Chambers, Founder and President/CEO

Bill Chambers has more than 20 years experience in high technology companies, specializing in new product introductions and market creation and development. During his career, Mr. Chambers has held key management positions in a number of high technology start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. As Founder, President, and CEO of LeftHand Networks, Mr. Chambers has led the company through successful venture financings, development of the storage industry's first IP-based Storage Area Network (IP SAN) solution, successful and active partnerships with Fortune 100 and emerging growth companies, and widespread acknowledgement of the company as the industry leader in the rapidly growing IP SAN market.

Mark Avery, VP of Enterprise Sales

Mark brings over 20 years of technology sales and management experience to LeftHand Networks. He started his career in the Disaster Recovery industry and co-founded Recovery Management, Inc. RMI was a pioneer in the business continuity software marketplace and its flagship product was a leader in the field. After selling his company to Comdisco, Mark served in a number of management roles including Senior Vice President and General Manager of Comdisco Storage Services. He was a pre-launch member of the Centera division of EMC where he worked in Sales, Channel Sales, Global Account Sales, Marketing and Product Management. Mark graduated from Colby College, Waterville, Maine with a BA in Mathematics and Business Administration.

David Bangs, VP of Sales

David serves as LeftHand Network's Vice President of Sales. David comes with extensive sales experience in the storage market. He joined Quantum Corporation, a leading provider of data protection and network storage systems, in 1994, and held a series of roles with increasing levels of responsibility. Most recently, Mr. Bangs served as Vice President of Americas Sales, building and leading an enterprise organization that secured wins with numerous Fortune 50 corporations. David has a BA in Business and International Marketing (with Honors) from South Bank University, London, England.

Raju Bopardikar, Chief Technology Officer

Raju Bopardikar has a strong background in distributed systems and virtualization software, with significant expertise in software development. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Raju is advancing LeftHand’s technology and contributing to the future vision, positioning and evolution of LeftHand’s successful portfolio of SAN solutions. A successful technologist and innovator, the products and solutions Raju developed are serving the needs of many of the world's leading supercomputing, entertainment and high performance networking organizations. For several years, Raju served as a consultant for IBM, Thinking Machines and AT&T Bell Labs where he holds many patents and developed technologies involving high speed networking, distributed file systems and clustering solutions. A successful entrepreneur, he also founded a number of companies, including Stone+Wire/Discreet Logic, Cereva Networks and TrueNorth Networks. Raju holds a Bachelor of Arts in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Columbia University

Board of Directors

Bill Chambers

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Tim Connor

Tim is a partner at Sequel Ventures. He has eleven years investment banking experience as a Managing Director in Lehman Brother's Technology Investment Banking Group. He provided financing and strategic advisory services to companies, raised over $10 billion in equity and debt financing and advised on $5 billion in strategic transactions.

Jack Cuthbert

Jack has more than 25 years of experience in the storage, computer, and software industries. Most recently he was an Executive Vice President at Brocade with responsibility for global sales, building annual revenues to $500M over his six-year tenure. Prior to Brocade, Jack was Vice President of Sales at Macromedia and held various sales management positions during 10 years with SGI.

Harry Blount

A leading Wall Street equity analyst at Lehman Brothers from 2000 to 2007, Harry spent 21 years on Wall Street conducting equity research in multiple consumer and enterprise technology disciplines including storage, servers, IT distribution, internet, wireless, PCs, hard drives, and telecommunications. Harry is a Chartered Financial Analyst and currently serves on the National Academy of Science Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technology.

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