Contributors
John Gavin
Chief Operating Officer, Akorri
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John Gavin is responsible for operations, finance, HR and administration for the company. He brings more than 25 years of financial and operations experience from leading technology organizations. Prior to Joining Akorri, John served as COO and Interim General Manager for SMaL Camera Technologies which was acquired by Cypress Semiconductors. He also served as Vice President and CFO of Pirus, where he was instrumental in developing business strategies and optimizing planning processes that were critical to the company’s successful acquisition by Sun Microsystems. Prior to joining Pirus, John was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for C-Port Corporation, where he was one of the chief architects of the $430 million merger of C-Port and Motorola. Previously, he held senior financial management positions at Compaq and Digital Equipment Corp., including Vice President of Finance, Sales and Marketing for North America.
Rich Corley
Chief Technical Officer and Founder, Akorri
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Rich brings more than 20 years of experience leading and contributing to technology based companies. Before founding Akorri, Rich was the founder and Executive Vice President at Pirus Networks, where he was responsible for the company’s overall leadership, technical strategy, and product architecture leading up to its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in 2002. Previously, Rich was Director of Advanced Technology at Nortel. Earlier in his career, Rich held founding and engineering management positions at Aptis, Arris, Chipcom, Data General, and Concord Data Systems. Rich holds an MSEE from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a BSET from Northeastern University. Rich is an active member of the College of Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at Northeastern and was awarded the College of Engineering Outstanding Alumni Award in 2004.
Lisa Crewe
Director of Product Marketing, Akorri
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Lisa runs marketing for Akorri. She has more than 15 years of experience in product marketing, channel marketing and marketing communications for high tech companies. Before joining Akorri, Lisa held director of marketing positions at enterprise networking company Converged Access and telecommunications equipment provider Reef Point Systems. Prior to that, she was senior manager, product marketing at Lucent Technologies where she was responsible for worldwide marketing of wide area network telecommunications equipment.
Rob Strechay
Regional Vice President, East
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Rob runs sales and technology for the East portion of North America. Before joining Akorri, he served as director of storage and disaster recovery for a global 200 financial services company, where he was responsible for their strategic and tactical architecture for storage infrastructure and disaster recovery planning. Rob has also held positions with Fortune 500 organizations in the areas of storage services, disaster recovery planning, networks and infrastructure operations.
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