| 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.
Adam Sharp
Senior Director of Marketing, EMEA
Adam Sharp started his technology career with IBM's Software Business but then switched to a career in Storage. Previous companies include Brocade and Quantum where as Marketing Director EMEA, based in Switzerland he was responsible for supporting a $1.6bn revenue stream and launching new products into the then emerging field of network attached storage and consumer based storage products. Prior to joining Pillar he was Group Marketing Director Europe for Iron Mountain. Adam has a degree in Applied Psychology and a DipBA and MBA having studied at both UK and US business schools. He is married with 3 children.
Donald Stewart
Director of Sales, Southern Europe
Donald has more than 20 years international sales and marketing experience including roles in corporate end user, distribution and OEM sales with companies like Rank Xerox, Memec Group and Quantum where he successfully lead EMEA Channel Sales for more than 8 years. He joined Pillar from optoelectronics start-up, Acol Technologies SA, where as a founder member, he had responsibility for worldwide sales and marketing.
Chris Greenwood
Director of Sales Northern Europe
Chris has spent the past 11 years working within the Enterprise IT industry. Prior to joining Pillar he worked in business management positions for Sun Microsystems, most recently running the Server Systems business including both Sparc and AMD based platforms. Previously Chris was responsible for new business sales within the Financial Services division for Syntegra, the Systems Integration arm of British Telecom. Prior to building a career in IT, Chris completed a BA Hons degree and served as an Officer in the Royal Navy.
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 for two years and is currently responsible for Business Operations within EMEA.
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.
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