Overland Storage Appoints Jillian Mansolf Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing
July 22 2009 - 7:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
SAN DIEGO, July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Overland Storage, Inc.
(NASDAQ:OVRL) today announced the appointment of Jillian Mansolf as
vice president of worldwide sales and marketing. In this position,
Mansolf will leverage her extensive sales and channel marketing
experience to lead the company's global sales and marketing teams.
"We are extremely pleased to welcome Jillian to our executive team
as the head of worldwide sales and marketing," said Eric Kelly,
chief executive officer of Overland Storage. "Jillian is a storage
industry veteran with a strong track record of success, including
her tenure as an officer and executive at Snap Appliance. Her
unique industry perspective as well as significant sales and
marketing expertise will prove instrumental in leading the Overland
sales organization while broadening our strategic marketing efforts
worldwide." Previously, Mansolf served as senior vice president of
sales and marketing at Data Robotics, where she spearheaded the
company's global sales and marketing initiatives. Prior to that,
she held various executive positions at Motion Computing, Maxtor
and Dell. At Snap Appliance, Mansolf played a pivotal role in
doubling sales and establishing the company as the worldwide NAS
volume market leader. Ravi Pendekanti will take on a new role as
vice president of business development and solutions. This
executive position, which reports to Kelly, reflects the importance
of integrated solutions as a major growth driver in Overland's
business. "Our strengthened executive team is well positioned to
accelerate growth across all major lines of business and geographic
areas," added Kelly. "This will ensure Overland continually
delivers compelling end-to-end solutions that effectively meet our
customers' requirements." Overland also reported that it granted
inducement stock options to Mansolf who can purchase up to 120,000
shares of its common stock. Additionally, 75,000 shares have been
granted to Andy Walsky, who joined the company recently as vice
president of EMEA sales. The options were granted as inducements
material to employment in accordance with NASDAQ Listing Rule
5635(c)(4). About Overland Storage Overland Storage provides
affordable end-to-end data protection solutions that are engineered
to store smarter, protect faster and extend anywhere--across
networked storage, media types, and multi-site environments.
Overland Storage products include award-winning NEO SERIES and
ARCvault tape libraries, REO SERIES disk-based backup and recovery
appliances with VTL capabilities, Snap Server NAS appliances, and
ULTAMUS RAID high-performance, high-density storage. 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/ Overland,
Overland Storage, REO Series, REO, NEO Series, NEO, ARCvault,
ULTAMUS and Snap Server are trademarks of Overland Storage, Inc.
DATASOURCE: Overland Storage, Inc. CONTACT: Sue Hetzel of
HetzelMeade Communications, +1-760-434-9927, , for Overland
Storage, Inc. Web Site: http://www.overlandstorage.com/
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