Louis Cole
Mr. Cole was President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Legato Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in enterprise storage management software. Mr. Cole served at Legato from July 1989 through October 2000. During this 11-year period, he saw the company through its initial public offering, and grew annual revenue to $251 million. He serves on the boards of a number of high technology and storage companies.

Kent Smith
Mr. Smith is Senior Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for Wily Technology.  Previously he served as Chief Operating Officer at Legato systems where he was responsible for the company's worldwide sales, marketing, support, development and product management departments. Mr. Smith also brings 19 years of experience from IBM where he served in the sales organization of the Data Processing and National Accounts Division culminating with his role as San Francisco regional manager. Additionally, Kent served as General Manager, IBM China where he was responsible for all IBM operations in China.

Mark Diamond
Mark Diamond was one of the early pioneers in the storage services industry. Mark founded Contoural, and under his leadership the company has grown to be the industry leader in data consulting services. Previously Mark was co-founder of the Professional Services group at Veritas (OpenVision), and subsequently founded and built the worldwide professional services and education organizations for Legato Systems. He was also Vice President of Worldwide Professional Services at RightWorks. Mark was one of the industry leaders in applying the life-cycle services approach to storage, and has been a management consultant to numerous storage vendors. He is a frequent industry speaker on compliance, data policy, storage strategy and archiving. Mark is also President of the Alumni Association for the University of California San Diego.

Kevin Laughlin
Mr. Laughlin is a Venture Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures. Previously, Kevin was CEO of All Covered, one of the largest providers of technology consulting and managed services to small businesses in the U.S. From 1993 to 2000, Kevin was the Director of Finance and then CFO of International Network Services (INS), a network consulting and network management software company. Kevin was the leader of the finance organization and a member of the executive team throughout INS' growth from a $3.5M private company with 45 employees to a $440M public company with 2,300 employees worldwide. Kevin played a central role in raising venture capital to fund INS through its early stage, taking the company public in September on 1996, acquiring Vitals Signs and selling to Lucent for $3.7 Billion.

 

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