 Management
Management Bios
Kevin Brown, Chief Executive Officer
Kevin is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive, with experience in the networking, storage, security, and virtualization sectors. Most recently, he served as President and CEO of Kidaro, a desktop virtualization software vendor, where he led the team to a leadership position in this emerging segment. Kidaro was acquired by Microsoft in May 2008 and incorporated as a key element of Windows virtualization.
Prior to joining Kidaro, Kevin served as a vice president on the original executive team of storage security vendor Decru, where he led worldwide marketing, business development, and product management. Following the acquisition of Decru by Network Appliance, Kevin stayed on as a vice president and helped the company achieve #1 market share and global adoption across the financial services, healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, and government sectors. As one of the leading experts on storage security, he served as an advisor to the U.S. Congress, Federal Trade Commission, and U.S. Department of Defense. Previously, Kevin was a key member of the founding team of Inktomi, a pioneering infrastructure software firm, where he served in a number of executive positions, including Vice President and General Manager of Inktomi's networking business. Kevin is as a Fellow at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business, Lester Center for Entrepreneurship, and earned his Bachelor's and MBA degrees at UC Berkeley, where he served as MBA class president.
Brantley Coile, Chief Technology Officer & Founder
Brantley brings over 30 years of technical and managerial experience with a range of technology companies and research institutions including Network Translation, Cisco Systems, Adaptive, Digital Transmission Systems, AT&T Bell Laboratories and the University of Georgia. He has an extensive background in designing communications protocols and operating systems for telephony applications and Internet infrastructure technologies.
In 1994, Brantley co-founded Network Translation, Inc. where he created the PIX Firewall appliance that created a new class of data communication firewalls utilizing stateful packet inspection. Cisco Systems acquired Network Translation and the Cisco PIX™ Firewall, generating multi-billion dollar sales since its launch, became the industry standard appliance firewall. Within a year of the release of the PIX™, Brantley and his team designed, developed and introduced the industry's first Server Load Balancer, the Cisco LocalDirector™, spawning a multi-vendor industry that continues to thrive.
Brantley left Cisco and in 2000 he co-founded CORAID to design and develop innovative network storage devices. At CORAID, he created the ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) open lightweight network storage protocol that is the basis of the EtherDrive family of SAN products. He is an alumnus of the Computer Science Department at the University of Georgia and a Commercial Pilot.
Carl Wright, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Carl is a seasoned entrepreneur and executive with experience in the security, storage, and software sectors. Carl previously served as Vice President of Sales and Corporate Strategy at Kidaro, where he helped lead the company to a successful early market position in the desktop virtualization sector, and acquisition by Microsoft. Prior to that, Carl served as Vice President of Federal Operations for Decru, which was acquired by Network Appliance, where he established Decru's storage security platform as the standard in the U.S. Department of Defense and intelligence community, and accelerated adoption throughout sectors including financial services, healthcare, and the F500. Before that, Carl held the role of Vice President of Federal Operations at Securify (acquired by Secure Computing).
Prior to his executive roles in infrastructure technology firms, Carl served as Chief Information Security Officer for the U.S. Marine Corps. As CISO, Carl was responsible for the day-to-day operation and global defense of the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN), which scaled to support over 120,000 users worldwide. In 1999, he was awarded the National Security Agency's Frank B. Rowlett Trophy for worldwide Information Security Professional of the year. Carl has a BS in Management from Augsburg College and a MS in Information Technology Management from the Naval Post Graduate School.
Alan Beltran, Vice President of Engineering
Alan is a seasoned technology executive, with over 17 years of management experience in engineering, manufacturing and support. He will be responsible for engineering and manufacturing operations at Coraid.
Most recently he was part of the original executive team of Decru, where he served as Vice President of Hardware Engineering, where he was responsible for hardware and software engineering teams, manufacturing and operations, technical support, technical publications, and IT. After the company’s acquisition by NetApp, he continued as a vice president and oversaw the successful integration of these various departments into NetApp. Prior to joining Decru, Alan was the principal engineer on the team that designed the Good Technology G100 wireless device. He also served as Director of Hardware at Electronics for Imaging, contributing to revenue growth from $20 million to over $500 million. He managed the teams responsible for all board development from high performance systems to large volume embedded products. Before that, Alan worked on various image processing projects for Loral's communication division. Alan received his BSEE from the University of California at Berkeley.
Jim Kemp, Vice President of Operations
Jim joined CORAID in 2003, where he helped lead the company’s organic growth and product strategy. He brings over 35 years of experience in business management and engineering product development with a range of technology companies including Rockwell International, MCI, Scientific-Atlanta, Digital Transmission Systems and Adaptive Broadband.
In addition to serving as a member of senior management at 5 high-tech companies, Mr. Kemp has founded several successful startup companies during his career. Jim was founder and president of Telematix Corp. a fabless semiconductor company that successfully developed and licensed a complete 802.11a/b/g MAC and PHY/Baseband silicon chip solution. He served as VP of R&D Engineering at Adaptive Broadband, Senior VP of Engineering at STM Wireless, and co-founder and CTO of Telecom International, an Atlanta-based satellite systems company subsequently acquired by STM Wireless. Mr. Kemp led R&D engineering teams at Scientific-Atlanta to develop the world’s first INMARSAT-M mobile satellite terminals and at Digital Transmission Systems to develop the world’s first 3/1 digital cross connect switch. He holds a BSEE degree from the University of Missouri and served a 4-year active tour of duty with the U.S. Air Force during the Vietnam War.
Josh Leslie, Vice President Channels and Business Development
Josh is a seasoned sales and business development executive with a proven track record in the virtualization and storage industries. Most recently he served as Sr. Director, Desktop Business Development for VMware’s Desktop Business Unit where he structured and signed key partnerships cementing VMware’s place as a leader in the desktop virtualization space. Previous to this role, Josh served in a variety of Sales and Sales Management roles at VMware where he was a key contributor helping the Company scale from $100M to $1.5B in less than five years. Before that, Josh was a field sales representative for CommVault Systems, Inc.
Previous to Josh’s operating roles, he served as an Associate for UBS Securities as a member of their Technology Investment Banking Group. In this role, Josh advised technology company executives on equity and debt financings, M&A, and corporate restructuring. Josh holds a B.A. from UC Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.
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