— Qumulo, the Seattle enterprise data storage startup that raised $40 million in February, today appointed Mark Bennetts as the company’s new Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Bennetts, a sales veteran of companies like Juniper, Cisco, HP, and others, will head up Qumulo’s sales operations as it attract new customers that need help managing their data.
“Customers are really excited about Qumulo’s ability to provide real-time visibility into data and performance at scale,” Bennetts said in a statement. “I am thrilled to be joining such an exceptional team and to have the rare opportunity to build a company that fundamentally changes the storage industry.”
— Former Nike CIO Anthony Watson, who reportedly quit his job in December because Portland was too boring, has joined a bitcoin startup called Bitreserve as the president and COO.
Fortune has the details of Watson’s move to Bitreserve, a six-month-old company that’s a “a next-generation money service built on top of bitcoin.”
— Seattle startup Zumobi this week named Tim Ritchie as its new VP of Sales. Ritchie previously held the same position at BigDoor, another Seattle startup, and has more than 15 years of sales experience.
Ritchie will be responsible for growing the reach of Zumobi’s products, which help customers drive mobile engagement.
“Ritchie is a solution-oriented sales leader, bringing deep expertise in the SaaS market and a wealth of success driving sales with noteworthy enterprise clients,” Ken Willner, CEO of Zumobi, said in a statement. “He brings the ideal combination of digital smarts and sales strategy, and is a perfect compliment to the Zumobi team.”
— Speaking of Seattle startups hiring sales leaders, LiquidPlanner has appointed Josh Lowry as its new VP of Sales. Lowry is a Microsoft veteran, having spent 12 years at the Redmond company as a director of sales in the enterprise cloud industry. He left Microsoft in 2012 and spent the past two years helping smaller companies sell complex cloud projects.
In his new role, Lowry will help LiquidPlanner sell its project management software.
“I’m thrilled to have Josh on the executive team because he’s proven his ability to build and scale high performance sales teams” Liz Pearce, CEO of LiquidPlanner, said in a statement. “His experience and leadership will be invaluable in helping us to hit our aggressive growth targets and to continue to increase our presence within large enterprise and IT organizations.”
— After spending the last two-and-a-half years at T-Mobile, Lynn Reilly is returning to Seattle-based Lighthouse eDiscovery as the director of Hosted Solutions. Reilly, a veteran attorney, will help Lighthouse strategize and implement the company’s proprietary processes.
“Lynn is an extremely knowledgeable eDiscovery professional with over 20 years of experience as an attorney,” Beau Holt, vice president of Service Delivery at Lighthouse, said in a statement. “We are thrilled to have Lynn back at Lighthouse and confident that her first-hand perspective of client experience will enable our Hosted Solutions team to focus on what is most important to our clientele − cost predictability and containment around review and hosted spaces.”
While at T-Mobile, Reilly was the senior corporate counsel for eDiscovery. Before that, the former K&L Gates lawyer was at Lighthouse as its director of client services.
— Another longtime Microsoft employee Neil Fishman is leaving the corporate world for UIEvolution, a Seattle company that builds software for the automotive, cruise, and hotel industries. Fishman, who spent 22 years at Microsoft, is now the Vice President of Connected Products Engineering for UIEvolution.
“Having been in the tech space for decades, I truly understand UIEvolution’s focus on both delivering a positive impact for the end-user and staying on the cusp of change,” Fishman said in a statement. “And I look forward to helping the company remain on the bleeding edge of technology, furthering their engineering discipline for great success.”
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