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"Server virtualization is a ‘killer app’ for iSCSI"
Praveen Asthana
Director of Storage and Networking Dell
"For 90% of the people who want to buy SANs, the right answer is iSCSI."
Joel Snyder
NetworkWorld
January 2008
 
Board of Directors
 
Director
Dan Munro
 
Mr. Munro brings over 20 years of senior technology business experience to 4Blox combining Bachelor degrees in Communications and Computer Science.  Dan started his software career as an engineer at SAIC where he worked on the first commercial release of DFDSS on AIX for IBM.  DFDSS was the de-facto software standard for both tape and disk data management on IBM mainframe computers.  He then worked on a full datacenter migration from St. Louis, MO to Woodland Hills, CA for Foodmaker, Inc – which had just completed an LBO from Ralston Purina – prior to completing its own successful IPO. 

Mr. Munro was also the Vice President of Business Development for Aerocast – which was incubated at Motorola as a joint venture with Liberty Satellite LLC and Soros Fund Management ($24M Series A).  At Aerocast, Mr. Munro was instrumental in securing the companies first – and only recurring revenue through a custom technology Licensing Agreement with LimeLight Networks (LLNW). 

Additionally, Mr. Munro helped to accelerate the successful exit of two other ISV’s.  One was in the Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) software vertical – and the other was an ISV in the healthcare vertical that was acquired by WebMD for $65M (April, 2004).
 
Director
George Symons – CEO, EvoStor, Inc.
 

George Symons serves as CEO of EvoStor.  EvoStor is a venture funded storage company currently developing their first product.

Mr. Symons was previously the CEO of Yosemite Technologies - where he led the successful acquisition by Barracuda Networks in late 2008. Before this, George was with EMC, where he served as Chief Technology Officer for Information Management, responsible for defining EMC's product and technical strategy. He also played key roles in the integration of Legato enterprise backup and recovery products and Documentum content management software into EMC.

Prior to EMC, Mr. Symons held positions within Legato including CTO, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing, and Vice President of Development and Product Management.  Prior to that he was Vice President of Engineering at FullTime Software, VP of Marketing at Software Research and PROCASE Corporation, and also held product marketing and product management positions at Sun Microsystems. Symons has B.A. degrees in Computer Science and Management Science from University of California, San Diego, and an M.B.A from University of California, Los Angeles.

 
Director
Scott Caruso – General Partner, Flywheel Ventures
 

Mr. Caruso has over twenty years of software, networking, and Internet industry experience as an angel investor, entrepreneur, and engineering professional. Since 2000, he has been an active mentor and angel investor in ten technology ventures.  

During his career, Scott has also been a founder and executive of two successful start-up companies. Prior to joining Flywheel, Scott founded his second venture, HotSpare, an IT systems business based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Prior to HotSpare, he co-founded Compute Intensive (now NTT/Verio) with former colleagues from SUN Microsystems. Verio, a national ISP based in Denver, Colorado, acquired the company for stock in 1997.

Prior to these successful ventures, Scott spent 5 years as a systems engineer and sales support engineer at SUN Microsystems from 1989-1994, and participated in the dramatic growth of that company along with the growth of the entire computer networking industry. Scott holds a BS and a minor in Computer Science from New Mexico State University.

 
 
 
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