Experienced Executive Brings More Than 20 Years of Enterprise Sales Experience to ScaleOut
BELLEVUE, Wash., August 1, 2013 – ScaleOut Software, a leading provider of in-memory data grids (IMDGs), today announced that Juan Menendez has been appointed as its vice president of sales, effective immediately. Menendez will oversee all of the company’s global sales operations and lead the expansion of the sales force to meet the growing demand for IMDGs as a platform for operational business intelligence.
“ScaleOut has leveraged its leadership and expertise in the IMDG market to solve real-time analysis problems in traditional applications and in the rapidly evolving Hadoop world.” said Juan Menendez, vice president of sales for ScaleOut Software. “The company already has an impressive customer base and strong products. I’m thrilled to be joining at such an exciting juncture in its growth. I look forward to working with the team to further expand the use of ScaleOut’s products, especially as the explosion in big data drives the need for real-time analytics.”
Prior to joining ScaleOut Software, Menendez served as sales director for the Emerging Products Division of VMware, where he led dramatic sales expansion into new territories. He joined VMware via the company’s acquisition of Gemstone Systems, where he was senior vice president of global sales and business development, and was a key member of the executive team that led Gemstone from start up to acquisition. Menendez has also held senior sales roles at Aligo, Inc., EDS and IBM. He received a B.S. in economics from Allegheny College.
“Juan has an impressive track record helping some of the most demanding customers world-wide transform their aging data management systems,” said William Bain, CEO for ScaleOut Software. “Simply put, he’s the ideal person for this position. He has knowledge of the industry, an understanding of the value of data transformation, and sees the power of ScaleOut’s IMDG and analytics technologies. I look forward to working closely with Juan going forward.”
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About ScaleOut Software, Inc.
ScaleOut Software develops software products that provide scalable, highly available memory-based storage and analysis for workload data in server farms and compute grids. It has offices in Bellevue, Washington and Beaverton, Oregon. The company was founded by Dr. William L. Bain, whose previous company, Valence Research, developed and distributed Web load-balancing software that was acquired by Microsoft Corporation and is now called Network Load Balancing within the Windows Server operating system.
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