SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Violin Memory®, Inc., (NYSE:VMEM), a global pioneer of award-winning flash storage platform solutions for primary storage and active workloads, today announced Amy Love as the company’s new Chief Marketing Officer, reporting directly to Kevin DeNuccio, president and chief executive officer.
Amy Love brings more than 20 years of marketing strategy, brand, demand, and communications experiences from Fortune 500 and industry-leading privately-held and start-up technology companies. As CMO, she will leverage her unique ability to combine strategic marketing with brand development and demand generation to elevate market awareness and executive familiarity for Violin as the price and performance leader in all flash deployments that drive lasting customer investments. She is responsible for overseeing worldwide marketing strategy and activities.
“Amy’s proven experience driving compelling marketing strategies, partnerships and innovative programs for meaningful B2B and B2C brands is an invaluable addition to our team and growth opportunity,” said Kevin DeNuccio, President and CEO at Violin Memory. “The expertise and insight she brings will help to expand our global marketing reach and further strengthen Violin’s leadership position in the IT and flash storage market.”
“It’s a marketer’s dream to have a significant technology advantage and a fundamental market shift and disruption occurring at the same time,” said Amy Love, Chief Marketing Officer at Violin Memory. “I am honored to lead Violin’s strategy to bring global market and customer awareness to the company’s best-in-class all flash solutions that deliver superior performance, including scalability and reliability, at price points that allow customers to deploy next generation all flash data centers today.”
Before joining Violin Memory, Amy served as a partner for BizEthos, a consulting firm for Silicon Valley start-ups. Previously, she served as vice president of Global Brand and Demand Generation, acting CMO and vice president of Brand and Communications at NetApp, Inc., where she dramatically accelerated brand familiarity and sentiment. Amy holds dual BBA degrees from Texas Tech University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
About Violin Memory
Business in a Flash. Violin Memory, the industry pioneer in All Flash Arrays, is the agile innovator, transforming the speed of business with enterprise-grade data services software on its leadership Flash Storage Platforms™. Violin Concerto™ OS 7 delivers complete data protection and data reduction services and consistent high performance in a storage operating system fully integrated with Violin’s patented Flash Fabric Architecture™ for cloud, enterprise and virtualized business and mission-critical storage applications. Violin Flash Storage Platforms are designed for primary storage applications at costs below traditional hard disk arrays and accelerate breakthrough CAPEX and OPEX savings while helping customers build the next generation data center. Violin Flash Storage Platforms and All Flash Arrays enhance business agility while revolutionizing data center economics. Founded in 2005, Violin Memory is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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Violin Memory Forward-looking Statement
This public announcement contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding Ms. Love’s potential contributions to Violin Memory, Violin’s ability to expand its global marketing reach and further strengthen its leadership position in the IT and flash storage market, Violin’s ability to bring global market and customer awareness to its products, and Violin Memory’s business plans and strategy. There are a significant number of risks and uncertainties that could affect Violin Memory's business performance and financial results, including those set forth under the captions "Risk Factors" and "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations," in Violin Memory's Annual Report on Form 10-K for fiscal year 2015, which was filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and which is available on the Violin Memory's investor relations website at investor.violin-memory.com and on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov. All forward-looking statements in this public announcement are based on information available to Violin Memory as of the date hereof, and Violin Memory does not assume any obligation to update the forward-looking statements provided to reflect events that occur or circumstances that exist after the date on which they were made.
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