Leadership

Paul Flanagan is responsible for all aspects of Nasuni’s global operations. He is focused on building a world-class team of innovators whose common goal is to leverage the cloud to reinvent enterprise file storage.

Paul has a wealth of experience building and leading high growth companies. As an operating executive, he has raised over a billion dollars of financing and has taken two companies from start-up to IPO with capitalizations over $1 billion. Paul has served as CEO at Rave Mobile Safety and StorageNetworks (IPO: Nasdaq), CFO at VistaPrint, now Cimpress (IPO: Nasdaq), and VP of Finance at Lasertron (Acquired: Corning) and Vitol Gas and Electric (Acquired: Coral Energy).

Paul has also spent 12 years as co-founder and managing director at Sigma Prime Ventures and as a managing director at Sigma Partners, where he led investments in Wordstream (acquired: Gannett), Bionx (acquired: Ottoboch), ReThink Robotics, High Street Partners (acquired: HG Capital/Nair), Contently, and NS1. Paul is also a founding investor and board member for Nasuni.

Paul started his career at Ernst & Young and is a graduate of Bentley University. He is Boston, through and through.

David Grant is responsible for all field operations, which include sales, marketing, alliances, professional services, customer success and experience.

Dave is a veteran marketer with 20 years of experience in senior leadership roles at software companies – from startups to multibillion-dollar operations. He joined Nasuni from Veeam Software, where he was the senior vice president of global marketing. Prior to Veeam, he served as the vice president, marketing at VMware. Dave also served as the CMO at two startups. Desktone, acquired by VMware, and Watchfire, acquired by IBM.

Dave has a master’s in finance from Dalhousie University and a bachelor’s in marketing from Saint Mary’s University.

Nasuni Founder and CTO 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.

Pete is responsible for growing and scaling the revenue-generating organization for Nasuni including worldwide Sales and Solution Engineering, Channel Sales and Strategic Business Development.

Pete has a wealth of experience building and leading high-performing teams for organizations at all stages and sizes. Most recently, he was the Vice President of Enterprise Sales for Pure Storage, where he led a team that more than doubled the business to over $1B during his 4-year tenure. Prior, he was Chief Revenue Officer for LookingGlass Cyber, where he helped recapitalize the company, acquired and commercialized a threat intel platform, and grew the business over 50%. Earlier in his career, Pete spent a decade at Cisco Systems, leading the Global Financial sales teams in various sales and sales leadership roles and 7 years on Wall Street at AllianceBernstein, a leading global investment firm, as Managing Director for Middle Market Sales.

Pete lives just outside of NYC, is married and raising 4 kids. He holds a BA from Siena College and an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business.

Dean oversees Nasuni’s legal function, bringing over 25 years of general counsel experience in fast growing technology companies to the role. Prior to Nasuni, he most recently served as general counsel for HackerOne, a hacker-powered security platform.

Dean was also general counsel of both Veracode, until its sale to CA Technologies, and Zipcar, assisting in both the company’s IPO and its sale to Avis Budget Group. He has also served as general counsel for several other leading technology firms, including Demandware, VistaPrint and StorageNetworks.

Dean has a B.A in Management from University of Massachusetts-Amherst and J.D. from the University of Connecticut.

Cheryle is vice president of marketing, responsible for elevating Nasuni’s brand, driving demand for its solutions worldwide and ensuing a positive customer experience. She oversees corporate and product marketing, demand generation, corporate communications and sales development.

Cheryle brings over 30 years of experience in developing corporate marketing strategies and executing integrated marketing programs that drive strong customer engagement via direct and indirect sales channels.

Prior to joining Nasuni, Cheryle was the Vice President at Hospital IQ and has held various marketing leadership roles in several successful young technology companies including Raptor Systems, Interliant, Seahorse BioScience, and most notably EqualLogic which was purchased by Dell in 2008 for $1.4B. At Dell she spent 6 years continuing to support the growth of their global storage business to $1B+, as well as led their US software marketing team through acquisition integration and execution.

Cushion earned a BS in business administration (marketing concentration) from the University of Massachusetts Lowell.

Ray has more than 20 years of financial and operational leadership experience across multiple industries, with an emphasis on scaling emerging technology companies. Prior to rejoining Nasuni, Ray held the position of Chief Financial Officer at Clinc, Inc., a conversational artificial intelligence platform which enables enterprises to utilize natural language processing to power exceptional customer experiences. Prior to Clinc, Ray was Vice President of Finance at Nasuni for nearly five years.

Prior to Nasuni, Ray led the global finance team at Demandware, Inc., (IPO: NYSE) the category-defining leader of enterprise cloud commerce solutions, where he saw the number of employees grow from 150 to 800 and annual recurring revenue increase from $20 million to $230 million, whilst completing three successful acquisitions. Ray supported the initial public offering and follow-on offering, which raised approximately $300 million and resulted in a market capitalization of over $3 billion.

Ray holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Seton Hall University and a Master of Business Administration from Providence College.

Russ Kennedy drives product innovation at Nasuni, leading the company’s product management, planning, and roadmap efforts. He has a maniacal focus on ensuring Nasuni customers derive maximum benefit from our technology.

Russ is a well-known and highly regarded storage industry executive, with more than 25 years of experience developing software and hardware solutions to address exponential data growth. Before Nasuni, Russ directed product strategy at private cloud object storage pioneer Cleversafe through its $1.3 billion acquisition by IBM. While Russ was helping transition the product to what is now IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS), he began working with IBM partner Nasuni, and became convinced Nasuni’s cloud-native global file system is the only data management technology that truly exploits the strengths of object storage.

Earlier in his career, Russ served in a variety of product management and development roles, most notably at StorageTek (acquired by Sun Microsystems), where he brought several industry-leading products to market.

An avid cyclist and hiker, Russ resides in Boulder, Colorado with his family. He has a BS degree in Computer Science from Colorado State University and an MBA degree from the University of Colorado.

Barrie Kuza leads Nasuni’s Customer Experience team whose goal is to be the voice of the customer within Nasuni. We work cross functionally to make sure that every customer interaction with the product and people of Nasuni is great.

Barrie has been a tireless advocate for Nasuni customers since joining the company in 2011 as a Senior Technical Support Engineer. Her role has grown steadily, mirroring Nasuni’s growth, and she has taken on a variety of customer-facing positions including Manager, Technical Support; Senior Director, Technical Operations; Vice President, Customer Success; Vice President, Product Management; and Vice President, Customer Experience.

Barrie is known as a technically skilled, customer-focused executive with a track record of building support and technical relationship management teams that enhance customer success. Before Nasuni, she built and launched the technical support programs at Idiom Technologies and several other early-stage companies. Barrie began her career as a software developer before realizing she loved working with and supporting customers more.

An avid hiker and traveler, Barrie is also a mother of four. She holds a BS degree in Computer Science from Brandeis University.

Matt McDonald is responsible for product development, quality assurance, and release engineering at Nasuni.

Matt is a data storage expert and owns a number of patents related to distributed object storage. Upon joining Nasuni in 2010 as part of the architecture team, he designed and developed the backbone of the Nasuni UniFS global file system. Before Nasuni, he was a Lead Architect and Development Group Manager at Archivas through its acquisition by Hitachi Data Systems. Archivas is now the basis for the Hitachi Content Platform (HCP).

Matt began his career in Data General’s CLARiiON group, which was acquired by EMC. From the EMC CLARiiON group, he moved to the EMC Centera group, where he helped build one of the first large-scale distributed object storage systems, tackling various technical challenges related to storing large numbers of objects.

Matt has a BS degree in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and an MBA degree from Babson College.

Kathleen Parrish leads all strategic HR functions in support of Nasuni’s aggressive growth and revenue goals.

Kathleen has 20 years of HR leadership experience in a diverse mix of industries and companies, from globally recognized brands such as Royal Caribbean to growth-driven technology startups. She has overseen employee relations, managed and supported large, complex organizations with employees distributed around the world, and guided companies through tremendous growth periods. Most recently at Demandware, Kathleen grew the company from 200 to more than 1,000 employees through its initial public offering, while also building a culture of engagement, agility, and innovation.

Kathleen is now building that same culture at Nasuni. Working as a strategic partner to all key business functions, she assists with the planning and forecasting of the company’s needs, acquires and retains talent across all departments, and provides management training, leadership development and other key functions for our fast-growing company.

A dog-lover and avid traveler who has visited more than 50 countries, Kathleen has a BS degree in Business from Northeastern University.