Management Team
Patrick Clarke, Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Pat Clarke was appointed as CEO in January 2008. He has been Tandberg Data's Executive Vice President of Global Sales, Marketing and Service since May 2007. Clarke joined Tandberg Data in 2006 as Vice President Sales and Marketing EMEA. Before Joining Tandberg Data, Clarke was Vice President and General Manager for Pillar Data Systems. Prior to Pillar Data Systems he held similar positions for Bakbone Software and Overland storage. Having spent some years in the British Armed forces, Mr. Clarke moved into the IT industry working at Quantum and then IBM. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College in Ireland.
Erik Hansen, Chief Financial Officer (CFO)
Erik Hansen joined Tandberg Data in December 2007 as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Prior to joining Tandberg Data, Hansen managed his own independent corporate advisory firm. Hansen has leadership experience as Executive Vice President at Den norske Bank and Den norske Creditbank, Regional Director at SR-Bank, CFO at Bergenske/Kosmos Group and senior manager at PwC Consulting and Deloitte Consulting. Hansen has extensive experience in performance measurement, corporate finance, finance and restructuring.
Hansen holds a BSc in Management Studies from Warwick Business School and a MBA from INSEAD.
Kevin Devlin, Chief Operating Officer (COO)
Kevin Devlin was appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Tandberg Data in August 2007. Devlin has extensive experience in the storage industry, most recently he was General Manager of Pillar Data Systems (Ireland). Prior to joining Pillar Data Systems he was General Manager of Quantum's European Operations where he worked for 11 years. Preceding Quantum Devlin worked for Amdahl. He holds a PhD in Physics from Dublin City University (DCU).
Kjell Øyvind Aasene, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, APAC and Japan
Kjell Øyvind Aasene is Tandberg Data's Vice President of Sales and Marketing for APAC and Japan. Working with the sales and marketing teams and through close relationships with selected OEM and channel partners, Aasene has been responsible for consistently growing market share in APAC and Japan.
Aasene is a veteran of the storage industry with over 23 years with Tandberg Data. He started at Tandberg Data in 1984 as a Development Engineer, progressing through OEM Support and OEM Sales and then later to Product Management. He was in charge of the company's product management for 3 years. He has been responsible for taking many products to market, both in the tape and disk space. He has driven the development of the company's broad product range, spanning from entry level backup devices to mid range backup and archiving systems.
Kjell Øyvind Aasene holds a Degree in Electronic Engineering from Horten ingeniørhøgskole and Bedriftsøkonom from Norwegian School of Management.
Jean Charles Herpeux, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, EMEA
Jean-Charles Herpeux joined Tandberg Data as Senior Vice President, EMEA Sales and Marketing in August 2007. Working at the company's EMEA headquarters in Dortmund, Germany, he leads the channel and OEM sales and marketing teams for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Prior to joining Tandberg Data, Herpeux was the Founder and CEO of ACOL Technologies S.A.. ACOL, a hi-tech start-up, designs and manufactures High Brightness LED (Light Emitting Diodes) products for use in solid state lighting applications. Prior to starting up ACOL in 2002, Herpeux worked at Quantum Corporation for five years. After joining Quantum in 1994 as Director for Southern Europe, Herpeux was promoted to Sales Director for Europe in 1995 and VP EMEA in 1996. Before joining Quantum, Herpeux held various management positions at Seagate, Control Data and Citroën.
Jean Charles holds an MBA from HEC (Hautes Etudes Commerciales), Paris, a leading French Business School.
Scott Petersen, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Americas
Scott Petersen joined Tandberg Data in October 2007 as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for the Americas. Petersen is based at the Tandberg Data facility in Boulder, Colorado, where he leads the sales and marketing teams throughout all of North and South America.
Prior to joining Tandberg Data, Petersen held sales leadership roles at McData Corporation, as Vice President of Sales, Eastern US; and BakBone Software, Inc., as Vice President of Sales. Prior to these positions, he served in a variety of leadership functions for several other high-tech companies, including Actiopoint, Inc. in San Jose, California; and Sterling Software in Dallas, Texas.
Scott Petersen holds a Bachelors degree in Finance from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.
Bharat Kumar, Vice President of Marketing and Development
Bharat Kumar was appointed as Vice President, Marketing and Development for Tandberg Data in November 2007 with responsibility for overseeing global marketing and defining the future strategic direction of the company. Kumar joins Tandberg Data from Microsoft Corporation, where he held the position of Business and Marketing Director and oversaw the biggest product launches in Microsoft's history.
An established industry visionary, Kumar has extensive experience gained within storage, with previous global strategic positions and marketing roles at BakBone Software and DataCore Software. Prior to this, Kumar held senior marketing and business development roles at ViewSonic and Borland Software.
Kumar holds an MBA and an MSc in Information Technology, along with a BA in Business Studies.