As Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales, network storage industry veteran Jim Dawson is aggressively driving the company's worldwide sales expansion in application-centric enterprise storage.

Mr. Dawson brings more than 20 years of senior direct and indirect sales experience in the storage industry, including his last five years at 3PAR, the industry's leading utility storage provider. There, he helped lead the company from its early stages to initial public offering and oversaw the build out of the company's worldwide sales organization, which includes a direct sales force in the U.S., U.K. and Germany; and indirect channel resellers in the balance of EMEA and Asia Pacific. Among his accomplishments at 3PAR, Mr. Dawson established and executed a sales strategy that provided 80 percent compounded annual revenue growth over his five-year tenure.

Mr. Dawson's background includes a 13-year tenure at Data General, where he was a part of the start-up group that became the CLARiiON business unit. When Data General was acquired by EMC in 1999, Mr. Dawson was then Vice President of International Sales with responsibility for the storage business outside of the U.S. Mr. Dawson has also worked at a series of start-ups, leading the worldwide sales teams at Scale Eight, Neoscale and most recently 3PAR.

During his career in the storage industry, Mr. Dawson has lived and worked in the U.S., Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong and London. Mr. Dawson and his wife, Dana, presently live in Orinda, Calif., with their four children.