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Dario is a Global Senior Technology Executive with over 30 years of experience with CEO, General Manager, and Board Member roles. He is a transformation leader who brings to Pavilion a successful track record of creating value for shareholders in Fortune 100 companies, private-equity backed companies, and venture-capital backed startups.

Dario was most recently the CEO of Space Systems/Loral (SSL), a Maxar company. Prior to that, as an Operating Advisor to The Blackstone Group, he advised multiple technology companies and served on several of their Boards.

Earlier, Dario held leadership roles at Dell and Cisco. At Dell, he was the first Global Vice President & Worldwide General Manager of the Networking Division. He later established and ran Dell’s Enterprise Systems and Solutions business. At Cisco, Dario was the Vice President/General Manager of the Systems and Network Management business.

Earlier in his career, Dario held leadership roles in Silicon Valley technology companies.

Dario holds an MBA from INSEAD and a MSEE from The Polytechnic of Turin, Italy.

VR Satish is the Chief Technology Officer at Pavilion Data Systems and brings more than 20 years of experience in enterprise storage software products. Prior to joining Pavilion Data, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Artiman Ventures. Satish was an early employee of Veritas and later served as the Vice President and the Chief Technology Officer for the Information & Availability Group at Symantec Corporation prior to joining Artiman. His current areas of interest include distributed computing, information-centric storage architectures and virtualization. Satish holds multiple patents in storage management, and earned his Master’s degree in computer science from the University of Florida.

Co-Founder &
Chief Development Officer

Sundar Kanthadai

Sundar is the Co-founder of Pavilion Data Systems and brings more than 15 years of enterprise data center and software development expertise to the company. Prior to Pavilion Data, he was a founding engineer and Director of Engineering at SeaMicro (AMD) where he led the software development of the industry leading converged appliance products SM10000 and SM15000. Prior to SeaMicro, he held key engineering positions at successful startups Aruba Wireless Networks & ONI Systems.

Chief Marketing &
Product Officer

Shridar Subramanian

Shridar Subramanian joins Pavilion with more than 25 years of experience in marketing, demand generation, product management, and information technology. Subramanian, a seasoned marketing executive with broad experience in data storage technologies, will spearhead the company’s initiatives to further innovate in the big data storage and analytics marketplace. Subramanian comes to Pavilion from Arcserve, a backup and disaster recovery solutions provider, where he was Chief Marketing Officer and head of product management.

Shridar assumed his position at Arcserve after serving as CMO and Vice President of Product Management at StorageCraft Technology, which merged with Arcserve in 2021. Previously he was Chief Revenue and Marketing Officer at storage systems company Exablox, acquired by StorageCraft in 2017.

Other senior positions held by Subramanian include Vice President of Marketing and Product Management at Virident Systems, Director of Business Strategy and Alliances at MonoSphere, Inc., and Director of Strategic Alliances at Network Appliance. In 2005, Subramanian also co-founded Info-Insight, serving as Chief Executive Officer.

A graduate of the University of Mumbai, Subramanian earned a master’s degree in computer science from Pennsylvania State University in 1990. He later earned an MBA in Finance and Business Strategy from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business.

Chief Field Technology Officer

Costa Hasapopoulos

Costa is the Chief Field Technology Officer at Pavilion Data Systems and brings over 35 years of experience in IT hardware, software and solutions experience including over 20 years of experience in the storage industry. His experience ranges from executive leadership roles in sales, technical sales, services, field product marketing/solution development all focused on understanding the needs of customers and “solving real world problems with technologies”.

Prior to joining Pavilion, Costa has had many executive leadership roles in the storage/server industry. From the President of Equus Compute Solutions as a white box server manufacturer, to World Wide VP of Storage Sales at IBM, to 10 years as Americas CTO for Hitachi Data System, to World Wide Vice President of Services and Solutions for McData/Computer Network Technologies. In these roles he has sold and designed storage solutions for some of the largest enterprises in the world including: Google/YouTUBE, eBay, PayPal, Allstate Insurance, Walmart to several of the largest financial institutions in the world as well as the largest health insurance provider in the United States. Costa has been involved in the storage industry since the start of shared storage and SAN’s. In fact, Costa started his storage career as the General Manager of Imation's Storage Area Network testing and interoperability lab in 1999 when shared storage solutions were just coming to market.

Costa has also served on several as an advisory to several VC’s and Private Equity backed companies.

Costa holds a BS in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Senior Vice President Customer Success

Farzad Haghighi

Farzad is the Senior Vice President of Global Customer Support, with over 20 years of leadership experience across Enterprise, Government and IT Managed Services accounts worldwide. He is responsible for the vision, strategy, implementation, and execution of Pavilion Data Customer Experience and Support. Farzad comes to Pavilion Data from Vexata, where he was the VP of Support & Services. Prior to that he held several senior positions at Virident (acquired by Western Digital), Rainfinity (acquired by DellEMC), Persist Technologies (acquired by HPE) and BEA Systems (IPO 1997). Farzad holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Mathematics from San Jose State University.

David is Senior Vice President of Finance at Pavilion Data Systems and brings over 27 years of financial management experience. Prior to joining Pavilion, David was the Chief Financial Officer for Advantel Networks. His prior roles include the senior finance executive for GridIron Systems, Tribal Brands, Facetime Communications, and Consentry Networks where he built world class accounting, finance, legal, and human resource departments.

He has also served in senior financial roles at Fortinet, Extreme Networks, and BEA Systems, contributing to their successful IPOs while helping scale controls and processes during the companies' high growth phases.

David holds a BS in Finance from San Diego State University.

Lynn is Vice President of Marketing at Pavilion. She has over 20 years of experience in the networking and data storage industry, including both large companies and busy startups. Lynn started her career in higher education, teaching Technical Writing, Technical Editing, Career Writing, and English Literature and Composition at San Jose State University. She then transitioned to private industry, working at Cisco Systems for 12 years.

Most recently Lynn was Head of Marketing Content at WekaIO and Head of Marketing at Stellus Technologies. Before that she spent 6 years in Marketing leadership at Western Digital.

Lynn holds an MA in Composition, a BA in English, and an AA in Spanish from San Jose State University.

Chethan is Vice President of Operations, a Global Executive with over 20 years of leadership experience in the Electronics Manufacturing Services Industry worldwide. He is a proven leader who brings to Pavilion a successful track record of managing global operations, supply chain, and manufacturing. Chethan was recently at Jabil managing a Global Business account where he had the accountability for operational performance, business growth, and profitability for a leading networking customer. Chethan holds a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering and Management from the University of Texas at El Paso.

Regional Vice-President, Federal Sales

Michael Tanner

Mike Tanner is Regional Vice-President Federal Sales at Pavilion. He has over 25 years of sales leadership experience within the data management industry, including 10 years at Hitachi Vantara, where he was the founder, President and CEO of Hitachi Vantara Federal. Prior to that time, Tanner also served as the Director of Federal Storage sales at HPE among other roles during his 7 years at the company. He has also held sales leadership positions at Xerox and Tandem Computers.

Tanner holds a Masters in Systems Management degree from the University of Southern California, a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Science from East Carolina University.

Ton leads EMEA sales and operations team. He has a 20+ year track record of success in enterprise and channel sales leadership roles and has worked at several hyper-growth companies in the EMEA region, including Data Domain, EMC, Hitachi Data Systems and Pure Storage. Ton holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the Vrije University Amsterdam Netherlands.

Vice President and Managing Director - India

Sanjeev Jahagirdar

Sanjeev leads our India based Research and Development Operations. He carries 20+ year track record of success in Engineering leadership roles. He has worked with leading companies like, Sun Microsystems (Mt. View, CA) , Nortel Networks (Santa Clara, CA), Veritas (India) and Symantec (India).

Sanjeev holds under graduation in Electronics Engineering (India) and Masters in Business Administration from Univ. of Phoenix (San Jose campus, CA).

Experienced, Proven Leaders

Dario Zamarian

VR Satish

Sundar Kanthadai

Shridar Subramanian

Chris McBride

Costa Hasapopoulos

Farzad Haghighi

David Black

Lynn Orlando

Chethan Bachamada

Michael Tanner

Ton Welling

Sanjeev Jahagirdar

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