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Catbird Presents (Impressive) Advisory Board

June 20, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Catbird, provider of security and compliance solutions for virtual, cloud and physical networks, today announced that the company has constituted an Advisory Board and named the first five members.

The board includes industry experts, innovators and specialists in the fields of virtualization, cloud computing and security:

– Richard C. Schaeffer, Jr., a former Senior Executive with the National Security Agency (NSA)

– Pravin Kothari, Founder and CEO at CipherCloud, which uses revolutionary technology to provide cloud data protection solutions

– Shaw Chuang, former CTO and VP of Emerging Technologies at PGP Corporation, and, as a Director of Engineering for VMware, a key contributor to the ESX 3.2 release.

– David Bernstein, Managing Director of Cloud Strategy Partners and former VP and GM of Cloud Computing at Cisco

– Sunny Azadeh, President and CEO of Acctuall

After Embotics, Stephen Pollack Joins Enomaly’s Advisory Board

December 15, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

After joining the Advisory Board for Embotics, which we just reported raised a $4 million Series B round of funding, Stephen Pollack is also joining the Advisory Board of Enomaly.

Stephen Pollack is a recognized leader in the virtualization industry who founded PlateSpin (acquired by Novell earlier this year). With the addition of Pollack, the Advisory Board will continue to help guide Embotics’ direction, organization and strategy for product and company growth.

See Reuven Cohen’s blog post on the addition of Pollack.

Industry Moves: Stephen Pollack Joins Embotics Advisory Board

November 19, 2008 by Robin Wauters 2 Comments

Embotics today announced the appointment of Stephen Pollack to its Advisory Board. Stephen Pollack is a recognized leader in the virtualization industry who founded PlateSpin (acquired by Novell earlier this year). With the addition of Pollack, the Advisory Board will continue to help guide Embotics’ direction, organization and strategy for product and company growth.

With over 25 years of relevant experience, Stephen is a seasoned entrepreneur and proclaimed expert in virtualization who will assist the Embotics Advisory Board with product planning, organizational strategy and investor relations. He founded PlateSpin in 2003 and grew the company from a startup until its industry-renowned acquisition by Novell.

Prior to PlateSpin, Stephen held a variety of technology leadership roles across sales, marketing, services, support and product management. He has been instrumental in the growth of successful global ventures, including his roles as Director of Product Marketing and Customer Services at Fulcrum Technologies, Business Unit Director of IT Asset Management Solutions at NCR and most recently, VP of Product Management at FloNetwork.