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Tech industry veteran to help company manage its rapid growth
Ron Nash named CEO of Pivot3
Video surveillance storage solutions provider Pivot3 announced on Thursday that company investor and board chairman Ron Nash will become its new CEO. Nash, who has an extensive background as a technology industry executive, succeeds Richard Bravman who unexpectedly left the company earlier this spring.
Nash has experience leading small companies such as ExoLink, Advanced Telemarketing and Rubicon, as well as large IT firms like Perot Systems (now Dell Services) and EDS (now HP Enterprise Services).
"I've taken companies from five (employees) and no revenue up to over a billion. It's an appreciation of knowing what you do at what particular size, but how much process to put in without choking the company." said Nash. "You want people to have freedom and creativity so they can jump out there and be aggressive, but you've got to have more and more process and apply it appropriately as the company is growing."
Additionally, Nash believes that the company is at an inflection point for higher growth, the majority of which will come from the video surveillance market in terms of revenue generation over the next several years. Although the core of Pivot3's business remains developing products for video surveillance storage, Nash said that the company's foray into virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), which is expected to outperform video on a percentage growth basis, has added some increased "complexity" into...