COPAN Systems CEO and leadership

Over two decades of storage industry leadership experience at both the start-up and global enterprise levels Previously was Managing Partner at Ward Capital, LLC Former Vice President and General Manager of North American Sales at StorageTek, where he consistently delivered sequential revenue growth Former Managing Partner of Enterprise Storage Ventures, LLC, where he drove investment and managed a portfolio of storage start-ups Over 14 years of top management experience at EMC where, in his last position, he served as VP of Worldwide Marketing, Software, and Professional Services

Chris brings 18 years of storage system design experience from DEC, StorageTek and Compaq Computers. He has led engineering teams in architecting, development and delivery, beginning with diagnostics and controllers for 14- inch Winchester drives; then the first host-based RAID; the first controller based RAID product at DEC and comprehensive SAN management software. Under his leadership at DEC/Compaq he architected and delivered the industry's first external SAN management appliance, SANworks Management Appliance. At DEC, Chris was responsible for engineering solutions to meet OEM requirements. His efforts led to a new revenue stream for DEC Chris holds an MS in Computer Engineering from Colorado Technical University, and a BS in Computer Science from USC.

Mr. Eric A. Sumpter is a Chief Operating Officer at Copan Systems and is based in United States.