Team

Passionate external spokesperson on all things Nasuni.

Andres Rodriguez brings to Nasuni the energy and experience of a visionary entrepreneur with several successful companies behind him. He oversees sales, marketing and strategic partnership development—and is the face of Nasuni.

His previous company, Archivas, developed an enterprise-class cloud storage system and was acquired by Hitachi Data Systems in 2006. As founder, CTO and charismatic frontman at Archivas, Andres was a key force in sales, partner development and marketing and oversaw all technology initiatives. After the acquisition, Andres became Hitachi’s CTO of File Services, supporting the worldwide rollout of the Archivas-based Hitachi Content Archive Platform (HCAP). Having seen his team and product successfully integrated with its acquirer’s, Andres turned his attention to his next venture, which, with its goal of making the benefits of cloud storage more accessible to the enterprise, was a natural progression from his last.

Before founding Archivas, Andres was CTO of the New York Times, where he drove digital strategy at NYTimes and Boston.com, and worked extensively with their archives on digital content preservation. He came to the Times as the co-founder and VP of engineering for Abuzz, a pioneering social networking company the Times acquired in 1999.

Andres has a bachelor of science in engineering and a master’s in physics from Boston University. He holds several patents for system designs. 

Behind-the-scenes technical powerhouse and visionary.

Rob Mason has more than 20 years of operational, management and software development experience, all of it in storage. A meticulous builder and obsessive tester, with an eye for talented engineers, Rob produces rock-solid software, and, through his own example of hard work and ingenuity, inspires his teams to outdo themselves. His determination for thoroughness extends to financial and operational matters, and at Nasuni, he is a powerhouse behind the scenes, managing the company’s operations, in addition to its engineering team.

As the VP of Engineering at Archivas from 2004 to acquisition, Rob oversaw all development and quality assurance. After the Hitachi acquisition, he continued in his role, as VP of HCAP Engineering, managing the integration of his team with Hitachi’s and supporting the rollout of HCAP. Before joining Archivas, he was a senior manager at storage giant EMC, where he was responsible for the API, support applications and partner development for EMC’s content-addressed storage product, Centera. In a previous stint at EMC, he was Manager and Principal Design Engineer for the elite Symmetrix Group, where he improved the speed and reliability of EMC’s flagship enterprise storage disk array. Between Centera and Symmetrix, Rob was the co-founder and VP of engineering at I/O Integrity, a storage-based startup developing a high-performance caching appliance.

He has a bachelor of science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a master’s in business administration with honors from Rutgers University. Rob holds upwards of 30 patents. 

Strong front-line quarterback with a penchant for all things channel.

Bill Simpson brings more than 20 years of technology sales experience to Nasuni and has a strong track record of building highly productive channel and sales organizations for young, fast-growing technology companies. 

Immediately prior to joining Nasuni, Bill served as VP of Worldwide Sales at Akorri, a storage and virtualization management company that was acquired by NetApp in 2011. Before Akorri, Bill was VP of Global Channel sales and Strategy at Virtual Iron Software, a virtualization and virtual infrastructure management company that Oracle acquired in 2009. Bill has also held sales management positions at Pedestal Software (a security audit and compliance software company acquired by Altiris); Corechange (an enterprise portal company acquired by OpenText); Ardent (a data warehousing software company acquired by Informix); and Stratus Computer (a maker of fault-tolerant computers).

Bill’s outstanding work has twice earned him the honor of being named a CRN Channel Chief, and channel programs that Bill led in 2008, 2009 and 2010 each won the highest five-star certification rating from Everything Channel’s Partner Program Guides.

Bill holds a bachelor of science from Bridgewater State College. 

Financial strategy guru helping fuel Nasuni's rapid growth.

Andy Jones has more than 20 years of experience in financial management and strategy, much of it within the technology sector. As Nasuni’s CFO, Andy develops and oversees Nasuni’s financial strategy as the company continues its rapid growth.

Before joining Nasuni, Andy served as CFO at Integrity Interactive, a provider of global ethics and compliance programs to Global 2000 companies. At Integrity, Andy oversaw pricing strategies, expanded margins and successfully completed a sale to SAI Global for $170 million, more than five times Integrity’s revenue.

Andy also served as CFO at CCBN, an outsourced investor relations and business services provider that grew revenue three-fold during his tenure and was successfully sold to the Thomson Corporation. Andy also previously served as CFO of New River, a financial information software company, and TrueAdvantage, a provider of sales intelligence.

Andy received his bachelor’s degree in business from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and is a qualified Scottish Chartered Accountant. 

Veteran professional services team-builder and customer satisfaction maven.

John Gniadek brings more than 15 years of experience building and leading high performing service delivery teams.  John and his teams have delivered the highest levels of customer satisfaction in both small startup environments and also large, global technology organizations.  As the VP of Professional Services and Support, John will drive the entire post sales experience and customer satisfaction here at Nasuni.

Prior to joining Nasuni, John served as VP of WW Professional Services for Autonomy (an HP company).  John and his team were responsible for delivering implementations for both licensed and subscription based offerings of Autonomy's Backup, Recovery and Archiving solutions.  Prior to Autonomy, John led WW Professional Services at Iron Mountain Digital which was acquired by Autonomy in 2011.  John was also responsible for leading WW Technical Support at Iron Mountain Digital prior to his role in Professional Services.  

John has also held service delivery leadership positions at LiveVault (cloud based server backup and recovery which was acquired by Iron Mountain in 2005); Courion Corporation (a leader in identity and access management solutions); Rocket Software (a leading global software development firm with products that compliment and extend strategic IT infrastructure; and Lightbridge (a provider of technology services that managed customer transactions).

John hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management from Bryant University in Smithfield, RI.