Voltaire Appoints Patrick Guay Executive Vice President Global Sales and General Manager, US Operations
BILLERICA, Mass. and HERZELIYA, Israel – April 8, 2008 – Voltaire Ltd. (NASDAQ: VOLT), a leading provider of grid backbone solutions for the data center, today announced that Patrick Guay, the Company's Senior Vice President of Marketing, has been appointed to the position of Executive Vice President of Global Sales, and General Manager of US-based Voltaire, Inc., replacing Mark Favreau who is retiring.
Guay brings over 20 years of industry experience to his new role as Voltaire's Executive Vice President, Global Sales, and General Manager of Voltaire, Inc. His extensive background includes ten years at 3Com Corporation where he served as Vice President, Worldwide Marketing and Vice President and General Manager, LAN Infrastructure Division. While at 3Com, Guay managed the company's largest business unit, with over 450 employees and $700 million in annual sales, and was responsible for marketing, product management, and engineering of data switching, security, and wireless solutions.
“Since joining Voltaire, Patrick has been responsible for developing and successfully executing the company’s marketing, product and partnership strategies, which are aligned with Voltaire's leadership and growth objectives," said Ronnie Kenneth, Chairman and CEO of Voltaire. "As the Executive Vice President of Global Sales, and head of our US operations, he will have the opportunity to further leverage his broad industry experience to drive company growth and organization structure."
“Over the past four years, Mark has been instrumental in developing the company's strategy and positioning Voltaire as one of the world's leading providers of InfiniBand-based high-performance computing solutions,” added Kenneth. “On behalf of Voltaire, I would like to thank Mark for his contribution to the company and wish him continued success.”
About Voltaire
Voltaire (NASDAQ: VOLT) designs and develops server and storage
switching and software solutions that enable high-performance
grid computing within the data center. Voltaire refers to its
server and storage switching and software solutions as the
Voltaire Grid Backbone™. Voltaire’s products
leverage InfiniBand technology and include director-class
switches, multi-service switches, fixed-port configuration
switches, Ethernet and Fibre Channel routers and standards-based
driver and management software. Voltaire’s solutions have
been sold to a wide range of end customers including
governmental, research, and educational organizations, as well
as enterprises in the manufacturing, oil and gas, entertainment,
life sciences, and financial services industries.
Founded in 1997, Voltaire Ltd. is headquartered in Herzeliya, Israel, and has its U.S. headquarters in Billerica, Massachusetts. More information about Voltaire is available at www.voltaire.com or by calling 1-800-865-8247.
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