EMEA Management Team

Christopher Jones
Vice President of Sales, EMEA
Chris has spent the past 12 years of his career working in the enterprise storage hardware and software industry. Prior to joining Pillar, he served in business management positions for EMC, most recently running a sales and technical team responsible for taking EMC's ILM proposition to the UK Commercial market. Previously, Chris held various management positions at Sun Microsystems, most recently being responsible for the Storage and Data Management Group across Europe, Middle East & Africa, based from the European HQ in Geneva.

Alan  Lawless
Director of Business Operations EMEA
Alan is based in the Pillar Data Systems EMEA Headquarters in Drogheda, Co. Louth, Ireland. Starting his technology career over 10 years ago in Digital Equipment Corporation, Alan worked in their Multi-Vendor Customer Service division. Following on from his time at DEC, Alan was then one of the early staff members of Baltimore Technologies, the once class-leading Internet Security firm headquartered out of Dublin, Ireland. Here he had responsibility for Inside Sales and later Sales Operations for the Strategic Business Development Team. After Baltimore Technologies, Alan worked for eSpatial, an Irish Web-GIS software developer whose iSMART solution adds advanced spatial intelligence to the Oracle 10g environment. Here Alan had broad responsibility for Sales and Marketing Operations. Alan has been a member of the Pillar management team since 2005 and is currently responsible for Business Operations within EMEA.

Adrian  Groeneveld
Marketing Director, EMEA
Adrian has worked in the storage industry for over twelve years, with experience spanning both the hardware and software markets. At Pillar Data Systems Adrian was Director of Product Marketing, EMEA, before taking over as Marketing Director for the EMEA business. Prior to this Adrian held various senior product and solution focused roles with Symantec and VERITAS Software, regularly acting as a spokesperson at conferences and in the press and analyst community for their backup technologies, disaster recovery solutions and also to their SMB market.

Billy Mulcahy
Financial Controller EMEA
Billy is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He qualified in 1988 having served in practice with Touche Ross & Co. He was Financial Controller of Celerity Fluid Systems Ireland Ltd based in Ballycoolin Business Park in Dublin 15 since 1993.Celerity Fluid Systems is a manufacturer of mass flow controllers for the semiconductor industry and an outsource manufacturer of gas delivery systems for the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining Celerity he held financial accounting positions with Minitel Communications Ltd., Javelin Young & Rubicam and Aer Rianta cpt.