STEC Expands Marketing Team to Drive New Go-to-Market Strategy
March 26 2013 - 10:30AM
STEC, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEC), a leading global provider of solid-state
storage solutions, today announced two additions to its marketing
organization: Judy Fujii-Hwang, vice president of corporate
marketing and communications; and Zack Mihalis, vice president of
product management and marketing. The two bring to STEC their
nearly four decades of collective experience in high-technology
marketing and product management at a strategic time, as the
company expands its reach with STEC™ enterprise-class solid-state
storage solutions through a multi-faceted go-to-market strategy.
Fujii-Hwang's background spans a variety of high-technology
industry segments, with an emphasis on enterprise systems. She
comes to STEC from Cloudmark, Inc., where she was vice president of
marketing for the telecommunications security provider responsible
for global market penetration into the world's largest
communications' networks. Before that, Fujii-Hwang was
director of marketing at QLogic, responsible for product
positioning and promotional planning for the network switches
division. Previously, she was a consultant executive with
3Leaf Systems, a provider of server virtualization solutions for
enterprise data centers, after having held senior marketing roles
at NeoPath Networks (acquired by Cisco Systems), PortAuthority
Technologies (acquired by Websense) and Data
Domain. Fujii-Hwang holds a bachelor's of science degree in
business administration, with an emphasis in international
business, from San Jose State University.
Mihalis's background is in the storage networking and security
industry. Most recently, he was vice president of business
development for the data communications and storage business unit
at Exar, responsible for spearheading business development efforts
in flash-based storage, "big data" and cloud-based
applications. Prior to Exar, Mihalis was senior director of
marketing and business development at Brocade, responsible for OEM
and channel marketing for the server connectivity business unit.
Previously, he held senior marketing positions at
Hewlett-Packard, Broadcom, and Adaptec, Inc. Mihalis holds a
bachelor's of science degree in electrical engineering from the
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a master's degree in
business administration from Santa Clara University.
Fujii-Hwang and Mihalis report to Ali Zadeh, STEC senior vice
president, general manager and chief marketing officer.
"Executing on a revamped go-to-market strategy doesn't happen on
its own; we need a highly experienced marketing organization in
place," said Zadeh. "Judy and Zack, individually and
collectively, bring to STEC that essential experience in enterprise
systems, along with a unique understanding of global marketing and
business development."
About STEC, Inc.
STEC, Inc. is a leading global provider of enterprise-class
solid-state storage solutions designed for the ever-growing
performance, reliability and endurance requirements of today's
advanced data centers. The industry's first company to deploy
solid-state drives (SSDs) into large-scale enterprise environments,
STEC offers the industry's widest range of solid-state storage
solutions, which protect critical information for major business
and government organizations worldwide. Headquartered in Santa
Ana, California, STEC also serves the embedded and
military/aerospace markets with SSDs for industrial and rugged
environments. For more information, visit
www.stec-inc.com.
STEC and the STEC logo are either registered trademarks or
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Litigation Reform Act of 1995. This release contains
forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties,
including those statements concerning the direction of STEC's
go-to-market strategy; the evolving enterprise storage and server
markets; and the expected benefit and growth of STEC's sales of
STEC's enterprise class solid-state storage solutions as a result
of hiring Judy Fujii-Hwang and Zack Mihalis. Such forward-looking
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CONTACT: Jerry Steach
Director, Public Relations
STEC, Inc.
(415) 222-9996
jsteach@stec-inc.com
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