Panasas adds two executives to leadership team

News 2010-03-10 14:18
Panasas has appointed Bob Schoettle as chief marketing officer and Anthony Yeates as vice president of sales for

Storage firm Panasas has appointed Bob Schoettle as chief marketing officer and Anthony Yeates as vice president of sales for EMEA.

Schoettle recently spent five years as interim chief marketing officer/vice president of marketing for a series of venture funded private companies including SenSage, Innopath, Qumu and Kelkea, securing venture capital investments and driving successful exits.  Previously, Schoettle served as vice president of marketing for iPass and Intraspect and also held key marketing management positions with ROLM/IBM.

Prior to joining Panasas, Yeates served as vice president of sales for Spectra Logic in EMEA, where he built a successful channel ecosystem of distributors, VARs, and system integrators, resulting in a more than 200 percent CAGR (compound annual growth rate) in revenues during his nine-year tenure. At Overland Storage, he spearheaded sales in Northern Europe, where he developed new distributors and a large base of storage resellers to expand the company’s market presence and application footprint.

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