Steve Georgis
President and CEO

Steve Georgis has 29 years of experience in data storage and telecom. He was a founding member of Exabyte and Founder/CEO of Network Photonics, raising $117M in venture capital. He has more than two decades of data storage/tape backup industry experience in product development, marketing and business development at Exabyte, StorageTek and Data General. He holds 17 U.S. Patents awarded in data storage and optical networking technologies. Executive Bio

Merle McCreery
CFO, VP of Finance and Administration

Merle McCreery has 25 years of executive-level financial management, administration and operations experience at Exabyte, StorageTek, Network Photonics, Vixel, US Wireless Data and Int'l Language Engineering. He was formerly VP of Finance at Network Photonics, CFO at ILE, Corporate Controller at Exabyte, Vixel and US Wireless. He has experience in numerous equity and debt financings, one IPO and several acquisitions. Executive Bio

Chris Alaimo
VP of Engineering

Chris Alaimo has 16 years product development and management experience in data storage and telecom equipment industries at Quantum, Exabyte, Network Photonics and Carrier Access. Executive Bio

Bill Lewis
VP of Sales

Bill joins ProStor with more than 20 years of sales and management experience with leading technology companies. Most recently, he led the North American Sales team at Brocade Communications as Director of Channel Sales. Prior to Brocade, he ran the North American Distribution Sales division at Silicon Graphics. He also achieved a successful track record at several early phase high-tech companies where he was responsible for worldwide sales and distribution. Bill began his sales career at IBM as a team leader on the Rockwell International account. Executive Bio

Peter Fitzgerald
Director of Operations

Peter has more than 25 years of strategic operational experience, including procurement, logistics and supply chain management. Prior to ProStor Systems, Peter was the Director of Supply Chain Management for Cognitive Solutions. He was formerly the Director of Materials for Carrier Access and, before that, spent 10 years leading global procurement at Exabyte Corp. During his tenure there, he directed the migration of the company's largest volume product lines to an offshore manufacturing supply chain, reducing costs by almost 20 percent annually. Executive Bio

Buzz Walker
VP of Product Management and Marketing

Buzz Walker has more than 25 years of experience in systems, software and technology ventures. Prior to ProStor Systems, he was the vice president of marketing and business development for Arkivio, Inc., a file system archiving solution provider, leading all marketing, product management, Marcom, branding, strategy and alliance activities. Before that, he spent 19 years at Hewlett-Packard where he focused on sales, marketing and strategies in Storage, OpenView software and Office Automation businesses. Executive Bio

Randy Kerns
Chief Technology Officer

Randy is a respected storage technology strategist with more than 30 years of computer industry experience. Prior to ProStor Systems, Randy served as an industry analyst covering data storage, including SAN and NAS analysis. His experience includes executive and management positions with Sun Microsystems, IBM, StorageTek, Fujitsu and Tandem Computers. Randy is the author of Planning a Storage Strategy, a book that provides step-by-step guidance on how to build an information storage strategy as part of a larger business process. Executive Bio