Overland Storage Appoints Ravi Pendekanti Vice President of Marketing
22 April 2008 - 10:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
Industry Veteran from SGI and Sun Microsystems Joins Executive
Management Team to Spearhead Worldwide Marketing Efforts SAN DIEGO,
April 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc.
(NASDAQ:OVRL) today announced the appointment of Ravi Pendekanti as
vice president of marketing. In this position, Pendekanti will
leverage his extensive marketing and product management experience
as well as proven expertise in storage and server systems
management to lead the company's global marketing initiatives. "We
are extremely pleased to welcome Ravi to our executive team as the
head of global marketing," says Vern LoForti, president and chief
executive officer of Overland Storage. "His impressive
accomplishments and in-depth industry knowledge will prove
instrumental as Overland continues to develop strategic product
plans and innovative marketing programs that support our channel
partners while serving the needs of our growing base of worldwide
customers." Previously, Pendekanti managed the industry marketing
and solutions engineering teams associated with selling global
solutions at SGI. Prior to that, he held various leadership
positions within the intellectual property and reference
architectures marketing groups at Sun Microsystems. During his
tenure at Sun, Pendekanti earned the coveted Chairman's Award for
his innovative marketing efforts involving the storage and server
product lines, which became the foundation for the company's highly
successful solution sales approach. Pendekanti also served as vice
president of worldwide marketing at Intransa and held various
marketing positions at Compuware and HP. "I am thrilled to join
Vern and the rest of the Overland team and further reinforce the
company's tremendous brand recognition with high-impact marketing
programs and best-of-class products that solve real-world business
problems," says Pendekanti. "The best is yet to come for Overland
as the company's awesome talent pool, broad product line and
long-standing relationships with loyal channel partners serve as
essential ingredients for ground-breaking marketing programs that
produce high rates of success." Pendekanti holds a master's degree
in Computer Science from Florida Institute of Technology and a
bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Kakatiya
University. About Overland Storage Now in its 27th year, Overland
Storage is a market leader and innovative provider of smart,
affordable data protection appliances that help midrange and
distributed enterprises ensure business-critical data is constantly
protected, readily available and always there. Overland's
award-winning products include NEO SERIES(R) and ARCvault(TM) tape
libraries, REO SERIES(R) disk-based appliances with Virtual Tape
Library (VTL) capabilities and ULTAMUS(TM) RAID high-performance,
high-density storage. Overland sells its products through leading
OEMs, commercial distributors, storage integrators and value-added
resellers. For more information, visit Overland's web site at
http://www.overlandstorage.com/ Overland, Overland Storage, REO
Series, REO, NEO Series, NEO, ARCvault Series, ARCvault and ULTAMUS
are trademarks of Overland Storage, Inc. DATASOURCE: Overland
Storage, Inc. CONTACT: Sue Hetzel of HetzelMeade Communications,
+1-760-434-9927, for Overland Storage, Inc. Web site:
http://www.overlandstorage.com/
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