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Dell AppAssure Management Team

Naj Husain

Najaf Husain – Chief Executive Officer, President

Najaf has over 20 years experience developing and managing software companies, particularly in the Windows environment. He founded Dell AppAssure Software to address the need to protect mission-critical applications, starting with e-mail, that run on the Microsoft Windows Server Platform. Prior to Dell AppAssure Software, Najaf was a Senior Executive and Vice President of the Microsoft Windows Strategy for Veritas Software (VRTS). Previously, he served as President and General Manager of Precise SRM, the Windows division of Precise Software Solutions. As President and General Manager of Precise SRM, Najaf grew the business by over 80% in 18 months, prior to the Company’s sale to Veritas in June 2003.

Najaf was the co-founder and CEO of WQuinn Associates; the leading provider of Windows based SRM solutions. The products were widely adopted with over 5,000 customers and hundreds of thousands of copies sold prior to its sale to Precise Software (PRSE). The WQuinn technology was licensed by Microsoft for inclusion in its NAS appliance and as an OEM for inclusion in the Longhorn operating system.

Najaf graduated from the University of Maryland with a B.S. in Computer Science. He participates in multiple charitable organizations and enjoys sports and spending time with his family.

Todd Fredrick

Todd Fredrick – Chief Operating Officer

Todd Fredrick has over 15 years of experience in managing sales, channels, and technical organizations, specializing in Windows storage and Exchange-based messaging solutions. As COO, Todd is responsible for all aspects of Dell AppAssure’s daily operations.

Prior to Dell AppAssure, Todd served as Sales VP for Symantec Inc, focusing on the market leading email archiving product Enterprise Vault and driving its 100% annual growth rate. Todd also served as a Sales VP at Veritas, focusing on developing Windows sales programs and strategies for both channels and enterprise sales. Before that Todd also served as Precise-SRM’s Sr. Vice President, where he oversaw all aspects of the SRM division’s world wide sales and marketing activities including the direct sales force in North America, EMEA, distribution channels, and strategic OEM relationships. These partnerships included building relationships with Microsoft, Dell, EDS, Techdata, and Ingram Micro.

Todd was also a Principal and SVP of Worldwide Sales of W. Quinn Associates, the leader in the Windows SRM Space.

Todd holds a M.S. in Information Management from Marymount University and a B.S. in Marketing from Virginia Tech.

Srinidhi Varadarajan

Dr. Srinidhi Varadarajan – Chief Technology Officer

Dr. Varadarajan has over 15 years of experience architecting and building advanced high performance computing environments, scalable file systems and storage subsystems. Srinidhi is responsible for the architecture behind Dell AppAssure’s patent-pending and award-winning storage software that delivers scalable global deduplication, storage retention algorithms and encryption technologies. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the State University of New York, Stony Brook in 2000, and is currently the Director of the Center for High-End Computing Systems at Virginia Tech and an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science. Dr. Varadarajan received the ComputerWorld Honors Award in the Science Category 2004, the CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, the New Century Technology Council Technology Innovation Award and a Faculty Fellow award from the College of Engineering, Virginia Tech. In 2004, he was honored by MIT Technology Review as one of the top 100 (TR100) young innovators transforming technology. Dr. Varadarajan is the architect of System X, the 2200 processor System X supercomputer located at Virginia Tech.

Dan Kyler

Dan Kyler – Chief Architect

Prior to founding Dell AppAssure Software, Dan was a Senior Windows Kernel Engineer for Veritas Software. Previously, he was Chief Kernel Architect for PreciseSRM, the Windows division of Precise Software Solutions, and helped expand its market for the award- winning StorageCentral product line prior to its sale to Veritas Software in June 2003.

Dan was one of the early employees of W. Quinn Associates, and he was Chief Kernel Architect for its top selling lines, QuotaAdvisor and StorageCentral prior to its sale to Precise Software in September of 2001. Dan holds a patent for Windows based kernel driver implementations. Earlier Dan was a Principal Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation and developed multiple kernel-level drivers for the data protection market.

Dan graduated with a B.S. in Computer Science from Kent State University and a M.S. in Software Engineering from Colorado Technical College.

Jack Codde

Jack Codde – Senior Vice President of Sales

Jack Codde brings nearly 30 years of experience in building and managing sales, channel, OEM and technical organizations in commercial, government and international marketplaces. As the SVP of Sales, Jack is responsible for driving revenue growth and creating high customer satisfaction for Dell AppAssure. Jack has a keen ability to understanding the true value of the client-customer relationship by understanding each client’s unique pain points and specifically helping organizations run their systems in a smarter manner.

Prior to Dell AppAssure, Jack served as a sales executive for several high growth organizations including Veritas, Andataco, Sybase and KnowledgeWare, where he was instrumental in growing market share, profit and customer satisfaction. Jack also brings to Dell AppAssure his experience in building high-producing teams that scale to support the dynamics of growing markets, vertical market development, and technology integration within existing production frameworks.

Jack currently resides in Northern Virginia and is a graduate of the University of California, Irvine with a degree in Economics.

Zorian Rotenberg

Zorian Rotenberg – Chief Marketing Officer

Zorian Rotenberg joined Dell AppAssure from Veeam Software where he was a Vice President on the management team responsible for starting and running the global Internet / Inbound Marketing Group focused on demand generation and global online marketing. Prior to Veeam, he was CEO of StarWind Software where he ran an international software company and grew sales in North America by 143% and 73% globally. Previously Zorian was on the management team as Vice President at Acronis Software where he worked for the CEO when the company grew over a period of a three years from less than $20 million to nearly $100 million worldwide. Zorian started his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. in Investment Banking focusing on mergers & acquisitions and financing transactions, worked at NeoCarta Ventures focusing on investing in technology companies and at IBM in the software sales division. Zorian graduated from Lehigh University with a degree in Finance and with minors in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Christopher Rott

Christopher Rott – VP, Human Resources

Chris brings 20 years of Human Resources generalist experience to Dell AppAssure Software. He career spans all facets of human resources including performance management, employee relations, organization development, strategic partnering, Oracle HRIS, recruitment & selection, compensation & benefits, union negotiations, employee communications, employee training & development, and employment law.

Chris is also a professor of Human Resources at University of Maryland University College. He teaches classes ranging from Organizational Development, Human Resources, and Labor Relations to Employment Law. He was involved in the development of the first web-based classroom technology used at UMUC.

Chris earned a B.S. in Psychology from Flagler College as well as a M.S. in Human Resources from Nova Southeastern University. Chris also holds the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) designation from the Society of Human Resources Management.



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