Press Release
June 2, 2008
Pliant Technology names Greg Goelz Vice President of Marketing
Goelz to Lead Strategic Initiatives to Bring New Enterprise Flash Drives to Market Later This Year
Milpitas, Calif. – June 2, 2008 – Pliant Technology, developer of a new class of solid state storage devices for enterprise computing, today announced the appointment of Greg Goelz as vice president of marketing. In this new position, Goelz will lead Pliant’s marketing programs as the company moves toward market availability of its Enterprise Flash Drive (EFD) storage devices later this year. Pliant’s EFDs will deliver dramatically higher levels of performance while meeting the growing need for increased energy efficiency and reliability in enterprise computing environments.
Goelz will be responsible for establishing Pliant’s position as a leader in the growing market for EFDs, and for OEM marketing partnerships and industry alliance programs. He will also drive the marketing of Pliant’s EFD devices, manage marketing communications and play a key role in sales program strategies. He will report directly to Amyl Ahola, Pliant’s CEO.
“Greg’s extensive experience in leading marketing initiatives, his focused approach to building bottom line-focused marketing programs, and his impressive industry acumen are significant additions to the Pliant management team at a very important and exciting time in the company’s history,” said Ahola. “Greg will be hitting the ground running as we’re about to begin beta testing our EFDs with first customer shipments planned for the end of this year.”
Goelz has more than 25 years of experience as a sales and marketing executive and has a proven track record in growing revenue, expanding market share, reaching new customers, and developing and implementing strategic marketing communications. Prior to joining Pliant, he was the vice president of marketing at UPEK where he helped establish the company in a leadership position in the PC market for trusted fingerprint biometric solutions. Goelz was also with SGI (formerly Silicon Graphics Inc.), as Vice President and General Manager of Workstations and Intel based Servers, Mr. Goelz has also held senior global marketing and sales management positions at several leading companies including Iomega Corporation, and Conner Peripherals. Goelz has a Bachelor of Science in industrial engineering from Lehigh University and a Masters in business administration from the University of San Diego.
About Pliant Technology
Pliant Technology is developing Enterprise Flash Drives (EFD’s), a new class of solid state storage devices, that integrate seamlessly into enterprise information systems and dramatically improve performance, reliability, energy efficiency, and TCO. The company was founded by a team of successful storage executives and engineers from Fujitsu, Maxtor, Quantum, and Seagate. Pliant is based in Milpitas, Calif., and is available on the Web at www.plianttechnology.com
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