Overland Storage Names Philippe Cazaubon Vice President of Sales
August 01 2006 - 8:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
International Sales Veteran Tapped to Drive Momentum of Tiered
Storage Solutions SAN DIEGO, Aug. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Overland Storage, Inc. (NASDAQ:OVRL) today announced the promotion
of Philippe Cazaubon as vice president of worldwide sales. In his
new capacity, Cazaubon will oversee Overland's global sales
efforts, further strengthen relationships with value added
resellers and OEM partners as well as drive revenue growth through
the company's tiered storage offerings. "We are pleased to promote
Philippe to his new position as the head of our worldwide sales
team," said Christopher Calisi, president and CEO of Overland
Storage. "Over the past five years he has established an impressive
track record, increasing our APAC revenue by more than 300 percent.
In his new role, Philippe will have the opportunity to leverage his
worldwide sales experience while providing leadership to our
results-driven sales team." Since 2000, Cazaubon has served as vice
president of Asia Pacific, which includes Australia, New Zealand,
China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia,
Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
During this time, he spearheaded the signing efforts of many
noteworthy deals. In addition, Cazaubon also led Overland's
initiative to secure key overseas OEM contracts with companies such
as NEC and Fujitsu. "In the past few years, I have seen Overland
evolve from a tape automation company to a company that provides
complete tiered storage solutions," Cazaubon said. "I am thrilled
to be given this opportunity and look forward to further expanding
into new and existing markets with Overland's simply protected
storage solutions." Cazaubon joined Overland in February 2000. He
previously served as international sales manager at HM Electronics,
a San Diego-based manufacturer of wireless communication systems.
Prior to HME, Cazaubon was chief engineer and sales manager at
Paris-based Frimeda. Since starting his international career in the
Congo in 1985, Cazaubon has worked and lived in Europe, the U.S.
and currently Singapore. He holds a Diplome Universitaire de
Technologie de Genie Civil from the Institut Universitaire de
Technologie at Bordeaux University in France. About Overland
Storage Now in its 25th year, Overland Storage is a market leader
and innovative provider of simply protected storage solutions --
smart data protection appliances and software modules designed to
work together, affordably, to ensure that information is
automatically safe, readily available and always there. Overland's
award-winning data protection solutions include the ULTAMUS
SERIES(TM) of protected primary storage appliances; the REO
SERIES(R) of disk-based backup and recovery appliances; and the NEO
SERIES(R) and ARCvault(TM) tape automation solutions. Overland
sells its products through leading OEMs, commercial distributors,
storage integrators and value-added resellers. For more
information, visit Overland's web site at
http://www.overlandstorage.com/. Except for the factual statements
made herein, the information contained in this news release
consists of forward-looking statements that involve risks,
uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Words
and expressions reflecting optimism and satisfaction with current
prospects, as well as words such as "believe," "intends,"
"expects," "plans," "anticipates" and variations thereof, identify
forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that a
statement is not forward looking. Such forward-looking statements
are not guarantees of performance and the company's actual results
could differ materially from those contained in such statements.
Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include
risks and uncertainties associated with the company's acquisition
of Zetta Systems, Inc., including possible integration difficulties
and successful execution of the business plan to make the
acquisition accretive to the company's operating results by the
first quarter of fiscal year 2007; possible delays in new product
introductions by the company including the new primary storage
appliance to be based on the Zetta software, the company's next
generation tape library platform and enhancements to its REO line;
market acceptance of the company's new product offerings; the
timing and market acceptance of new product introductions by
competitors; the speed at which HP transitions from the products it
currently buys from the company to its next-generation products to
be purchased from another vendor; delays, unbudgeted expenses,
inefficiencies and production problems that may result from the
transition of manufacturing to Sanmina-SCI; worldwide information
technology spending levels; unexpected shortages of critical
components; rescheduling or cancellation of customer orders; loss
of a major customer; the timing and amount of licensing royalties;
general competition and price pressures in the marketplace; the
company's ability to control costs and expenses; and general
economic conditions. Reference is also made to other factors set
forth in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission, including the "Risk Factors," "Management's Discussion
and Analysis" and other sections of the company's Form 10-K
currently on file with the SEC. These forward-looking statements
speak only as of the date of this release and the company
undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking
statements to reflect new information, events or circumstances
after the date of this release. Overland, Overland Storage, REO
SERIES and NEO SERIES are trademarks or registered trademarks of
Overland Storage, Inc. DATASOURCE: Overland Storage, Inc. CONTACT:
Melinda Hutcheon, PR Manager of Overland Storage, Inc.,
+1-858-495-4187, ; or Sue Hetzel of HetzelMeade Communications,
+1-760-434-9927, , for Overland Storage, Inc. Web site:
http://www.overlandstorage.com/
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