Bringing fluidity to legacy data infrastructure

Sam King

CEO

Sam King is a pioneering technology executive and cybersecurity leader with a strong track record of scaling companies and driving transformation. As CEO of Veracode (2019–2024), she evolved the company into an AI-driven application security platform through strategic M&A and innovation. Under her leadership, Veracode expanded internationally, entered the federal sector, and achieved market-leading growth, exceeding the SaaS rule of 40 benchmark. A founding member of Veracode in 2006, she later led the company through multiple ownership transitions and a multi-billion dollar exit. Sam currently serves on boards including Progress Software (NYSE: PRGS) and the Aspen US Cybersecurity Council, and was recognized as EY Entrepreneur of the Year and Executive of the Year by the Executive Women’s Forum.

Andres Rodriguez

Founder

Nasuni Founder Andres Rodriguez brings passion and energy to his role refining and communicating Nasuni’s technology strategy.

Andres was previously Founder and CEO at Archivas, creator of the first enterprise-class cloud storage system. Acquired by Hitachi Data Systems, Archivas is now the basis for the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP). After supporting the worldwide rollout of HCP as Hitachi’s CTO of File Services and seeing the Archivas team and technology successfully integrated, Andres turned his attention to his next venture, Nasuni (NAS Unified). Delivering value-added enterprise file services on top of cloud object storage was the natural progression of Andres’ cloud storage vision.

Before founding Archivas, Andres was CTO at the New York Times, where his ideas for digital content storage, protection, and access were formed. He joined The Times through its acquisition of Abuzz, the pioneering social networking company Andres co-founded.

Andres has a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering and a Master of Physics degree from Boston University. He holds numerous patents and is an avid swimmer.

Alison Bayiates

Chief People Officer

Alison Bayiates is a strategic People leader with experience in both high growth and transforming companies, building and preparing organizations to scale. With over 20 years of experience, Alison brings a unique blend of operational acumen and human-centered leadership to her role. Her career has been marked by transformative initiatives that have elevated team performance, streamlined processes, and fostered inclusive workplace cultures.

Prior to joining Nasuni, Alison led the People Teams at Veracode and RSA, guiding the organizations through multiple acquisition and transitions, including integration into large-scale enterprises and private equity portfolios.

Nick Burling

Chief Product Officer

Nick Burling is the Chief Product Officer at Nasuni where he is responsible for defining and executing on the roadmap for Nasuni’s portfolio of innovative hybrid cloud storage offerings, and for developing an ecosystem around those offerings to maximize Nasuni’s value for our customers.

Nick is an accomplished entrepreneur and IT product executive with experience in managing all phases of the product lifecycle. He has a proven track record in identifying new market opportunities, defining strategic vision, and executing on that vision to capture market share. Nick’s background includes broad experience building and leading winning product teams with Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft and IBM, and in leading startups from launch to successful exit.

Jerry Carter

Chief Technology Officer

Jerry Carter is an accomplished engineering leader with a strong track record of driving enterprise software transformation. His early career in open-source development and systems architecture—most notably through engineering roles at VA Linux and Hewlett-Packard—built a foundation of technical rigor and community-driven innovation. At Likewise Software, he rose from engineer to CTO, guiding multiple product pivots and helping position the company for its successful acquisition by EMC. During his 13 years at Dell Technologies, Carter led engineering for major product lines, implemented large-scale Agile transformation, and oversaw global teams while significantly accelerating release cycles and improving product quality. At Nasuni, Carter will bring a people-first, innovation-driven leadership approach to organizations seeking to scale technology, culture, and customer trust simultaneously.

David Castignola

Chief Revenue Officer

David Castignola joins Nasuni as a seasoned executive with over two decades of experience accelerating global growth and delivering exceptional customer outcomes. He has a proven track record of building and scaling high-performing teams and robust channel ecosystems.

During his 20-year career at RSA, David orchestrated the customer response program following the RSA SecurID breach. As the first CRO at Optiv, he accelerated growth by building successful go-to-market partnerships with leading security vendors. His leadership journey continued as COO at BlackBerry Cylance and CRO at Bugcrowd. Most recently, as CRO at Delinea, he was instrumental in accelerating the company’s growth following its merger, successfully integrating the go-to-market teams to drive record-breaking results.

At Nasuni, David will focus on scaling the go-to-market teams and further strengthening the company’s channel partner program, ensuring customers have the support and reach needed to confidently execute their AI strategies.

Ross Grainger

Chief Financial Officer

Ross Grainger is an experienced financial executive with a strong track record for scaling B2B SaaS companies globally. His early career in public accounting at RSM built a strong foundation of financial success. At WebPT, Grainger built the FP&A team from scratch, reduced controllable churn through better leading analytics, and led the company through multiple acquisitions.

Most recently as CFO at Paradox, he helped revenue grow 25x in 6 years while expanding the team across the globe and completing five acquisitions, ultimately selling the company to Workday. At Nasuni, Grainger serves as a strategic partner to the leadership team, ensuring capital is invested in the right growth opportunities to scale the platform and support customers’ AI and data intelligence strategies.

Elyse Gunn

Chief Information Security Officer

Elyse Gunn is the Chief Information Security Officer at Nasuni where she defines and leads the global security and compliance strategy for the Nasuni portfolio of offerings and operations.

Elyse is an accomplished security and compliance leader with experience assessing, developing, and implementing enterprise security programs across a diverse field o entities, including highly regulated financial institutions, health care providers, government entities and medium & large technology organizations. Elyse has a proven track record of developing and implementing best-in-class product security, AI governance and regulatory compliance strategies.

Elyse currently serves as the at-large cybersecurity audit committee member for the Girl Scouts Council of Colorado.

Barrie Kuza

Vice President, Strategic Programs

As Vice President of Strategic Programs at Nasuni, Barrie Kuza leads cross-functional initiatives that drive growth, streamline operations, and advance the company’s most strategic priorities. She works closely with Nasuni’s executive leadership and Board of Directors to align efforts across the business.

Since joining Nasuni in 2011 as a Senior Technical Support Engineer, Barrie’s role has grown steadily, mirroring Nasuni’s growth. Barrie has held leadership roles spanning Technical Support, Customer Success, Product Management, and Customer Experience, contributing directly to the company’s evolution and scale. She is recognized for her technical expertise, customer-first mindset, and ability to build high-performing teams that deliver results.

Prior to Nasuni, Barrie developed and led support programs at Idiom Technologies and other early-stage companies. Barrie began her career as a software developer before discovering her passion for working with and supporting customers. Even in her current role, you’ll still find Barrie occasionally jumping in to help resolve a customer issue!

Barrie holds a BA in Computer Science from Brandeis University. Outside of work, she enjoys hiking, traveling, and spending time with her four children.

James Lemonias

Senior Vice President of Customer Success

James Lemonias is SVP of Customer Success at Nasuni, leading the Customer Success, Services and Support, and Customer Operations teams. Prior to Nasuni, James led Customer Success and Support at Bottomline Technologies for their high-growth product line, as they grew to $700M in revenue. Prior to that, James spent 6 years at Carbonite, a leading cloud backup and data protection company. He built their first Customer Success and Account Management teams and integrated multiple teams from acquisitions as Carbonite grew from $100M to $500M in revenue.

Anthony Miller

Chief Marketing Officer

Anthony Miller is a senior executive with extensive C-suite experience helping global B2B SaaS companies deliver measurable business value to their customers while driving high-growth transformations. His leadership has helped scale organizations from early growth to market leadership, including growing PowerSchool from 500 to nearly 3,000 employees, while consistently aligning go-to-market strategies with customer success outcomes. At PowerSchool, he led a marketing organization recognized as the 2019 CODiE Marketing Team of the Year for delivering customer-centric campaigns that drove adoption, loyalty, and measurable ROI.

Anthony’s career spans marketing, sales, business development, and general management, with leadership roles at PowerSchool, Lanyon, and Active Network. At Nasuni, Anthony leads global marketing, helping to ensure the company’s vision, solutions, and expertise are clearly aligned to customer needs.

Dalan Winbush

Chief Information Officer

Dalan Winbush is an accomplished technology leader with over 25 years of experience driving digital transformation across enterprise IT, cybersecurity, data, and AI. He joined Nasuni as Chief Information Officer in 2025, where he leads global IT operations, enterprise systems, and infrastructure, enabling business growth through innovation, automation, and operational scale.

Prior to Nasuni, Dalan served as CIO at Quickbase, where he built and scaled a global Center of Excellence, implemented AI and GenAI to streamline operations, and established a unified data strategy that drove significant gains in customer acquisition and retention. He also held divisional CIO responsibilities at Comcast, overseeing a $300M portfolio and leading strategic initiatives in infrastructure, analytics, and digital experience.

Dalan holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Regis University and serves as a board member at VonVision and First Tee. He is also a CIO Advisor at SecureX and part of the CIS Advisory Council at the University of Colorado.