Russell P Reeder
Chief Executive Officer
Russ is a 25+ year tech, sales, product and branding executive. His hi-tech background ranges from start-up ventures to Fortune 500 giants like Oracle and his first programming job at Mobil Oil. Russ has managed high-growth global organizations that have transformed industries and consistently drives customer-centric performance and product innovation at scale. Leveraging his technical background combined with his successful sales and cloud industry knowledge, Russ has the unique ability to drive global growth while maintaining a diverse, fun, and strong work culture.
Prior to Infrascale, Russ led OVHcloud’s growth into the US. OVHcloud US successfully launched in the US, acquired vCloud Air from VMware and built two additional data centers to bring the total to 30 data centers globally. Russ also led the premium cloud hosting company, MediaTemple (mt), where he was responsible for the company’s global sales growth, brand, strategic direction, culture, and operational execution. Russ helped lead the sale of MediaTemple (mt) to GoDaddy where he stayed on the GoDaddy executive team to help transform GoDaddy and prepare for their IPO.
Throughout his career and his life beyond business, Russ has been an attentive student of innovative that drives change. He continues to hone and apply a leadership philosophy first inspired by his grandfather and then his professional mentors.
Russ holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems, Computer Decision Support Systems from James Madison University’s College of Business, and has completed the HBS President’s Program in Leadership (PPL) from Harvard Business School.
Erica Hansen
Senior VP of Accounting & Finance
Erica Hansen serves as Senior VP – Accounting & Finance at Infrascale. With over 22 years of successful financial leadership demonstrated in companies ranging from established Fortune 25 market leaders to small and medium, high growth enterprises. She has worked in a variety of different industries, including Government Contracting, MRO, Technology & SaaS, Restaurant, Land Development, and Publishing. Most recent company experience includes Boeing and Optimal Blue. Erica specializes in accounting transformation including reorganization of accounting departments and systems and building high performance teams.
Erica holds a Bachelor of Science from Southeastern Louisiana University.
Tom Paone
Senior VP of Sales
Tom Paone joined in July 2016 and brings more than 20 years of experience and data protection industry knowledge to Infrascale. As Senior Vice President of Sales, Tom is responsible for the company’s channel, field and inside sales groups, as well as Infrascale’s pre-sales technical and implementation services teams.
Prior to Infrascale, Tom was Director of Channel Sales for Unitrends focused on delivering appliance and cloud-based data recovery solutions through a national network of partners. Tom has also served in multiple sales and sales leadership roles with industry leaders including Symantec, VERITAS and Seagate Software.
As an industry veteran and experienced sales leader, Tom excels at building and developing high-performance sales teams that drive consistent and predictable revenue growth.
Tom leads the global sales team and is based in our Orlando, FL sales office.
Davide De Vellis
Senior VP of Marketing
Bringing over 20 years experience creating, growing and managing Internet and Technology businesses across global markets, Davide oversees global marketing operations at Infrascale.
Davide has been a key, early-stage member of multiple successful startups, having responsibilities including sales and business development, marketing and communications, and operations management. He was VP of Sales and Marketing with Australian Headquartered Internet Security company PC Tools, established and ran the US operations before it was acquired by Symantec, and then became responsible for Global Customer Acquisition for the PC Tools business unit. Immediately prior to joining Infrascale, Davide co-founded his own technology start up, which was later successfully acquired by Corel Corporation.
Davide has a Post Graduate Degree in Marketing from The University of Melbourne’s, Melbourne Business School.
Brian Wagner
Senior VP of Engineering
With his first commercial software titles released while still in high school, Brian started his commercial software development career at a very young age. As he grew up in a young industry that was just on the cusp of becoming mainstream, he was largely self-taught, and acquired most of his skills through discipline, hard work and true love of the “art” that is software development. Brian’s first employer, the US Government’s Naval Research Laboratory, was a springboard into the professional workforce. In the decades that followed, he continued to “climb the ladder.” After a long stint of work on 3D modelling/rendering applications (the popular Bryce product being a highlight), he landed at a small company called ExpertCity in Santa Barbara, CA. ExpertCity gave birth to the GoTo line of products (GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, etc), and Brian was at the forefront of developing these products as a key lead engineer. From there, he returned to his 3D roots as Director of R&D at DAZ 3D in Draper, UT. This management experience, combined with his extensive development resume, led him to Revinetix in mid-2006. Here, Brian became a key engineering contributor to the all-disk, appliance data protection solution that was the company’s flagship product.
As Revinetix grew, Brian took on more leadership roles, such as leading an offshore development team in India. He also continued to contribute to critical product functionality such as VMware and SQL backup support. When Revinetix changed its name to Eversync Solutions, Brian helped architect and engineer the product’s move to the Cloud. He contributed a key component in the Cloud solution, the provisioning & management service, that is still relied on today. Infrascale acquired Everysync Solutions in 2014, and Brian quickly adapted, taking his place in the new organization by becoming ScrumMaster for the Salt Lake City Engineering team. Shortly thereafter, he moved up into another Director role as he helped manage the Salt Lake engineering resources during a transitionary period brought on by the departure of Max Ackerman, then the VP of Appliance Development.
Now, as Infrascale’s VP of Engineering, Brian can leverage his solid resume of professional achievements and natural talent for mentoring & management. He is uniquely qualified to lead Infrascale’s Engineering department into the future, meeting all the demands required to ensure the highest standards of quality and reliability.
Doug Olson
VP of Customer Success
Doug Olson is the Vice President of Customer Success, leading the company’s worldwide Technical Support, Implementation, Training and Renewal Teams.
Prior to Infrascale, Doug held a variety of leadership positions in enterprise software and infrastructure companies spanning over thirty years, all in the Customer Success / Technical Support areas. Most recently, Doug was the Sr. Director of Technical Support at Perforce Software, a software version management and collaboration platform.
Doug led the Customer Care team in the role of Vice President at Astute Solutions, which provides customer service software, self-service, and social-media management. Doug was responsible for the Technical Support, Training, Professional Services and Data Center Operations.
He also supported over 25,000 customers at Sterling Commerce, an AT&T company. Doug was the Vice President, Global Support, leading over 300 Technical Support Professionals working from 16 different locations in 11 different countries.
His background covers a wide variety of industries, including: high tech infrastructure, consumer retail, call center communications, database, semi-conductor manufacturing/yield management and automotive parts inventory control / retail sales.
In all his roles, Doug has built world-class, customer-centric teams that leverage metrics to iteratively improve the customer experience.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Electronic Engineering from DeVry as well as an MBA from the University of Redlands.
Alexey Turchanikov
VP Product Management
Alexey Turchanikov is an experienced engineering leader with deep expertise in agile development methodology, large-scale distributed software system design and secure cloud storage systems. Alexey is responsible for the technical development and architecture of Infrascale’s platform – and leadership of Infrascale’s development organization. Alexey joined the company in 2010 as Lead Architect for SOS Online Backup. His ability to extract performance from and create product ownership within our Development and Operations teams has been key to his past and current success.
Prior to Infrascale, Alexey had leadership roles at several large software development houses, focusing on Telecom Industry and Government Institutions.
Alexey graduated from National Technical University of Ukraine and holds degrees in both Management and Mathematics.
John Solomon
Country Manager India
John Solomon joined Infrascale in 2007 and has grown his way into leading the entire India Operations. He assumed the role of General Manager in 2009 and has been directly managing lead generation and sales teams. He also indirectly manages back office operations that include billing and collection, infrastructure and customer service. John is based in Chennai office in India but also travels to Bangalore sales office.
John has over 10 years of experience in inbound and outbound marketing. Prior to Infrascale, he led global marketing and communication in ZSL, Inc. and Corporate Asia Technologies.
John earned his Master in Business Administration with concentration in Marketing and Human Resources. John and his wife, Revathy, have two lovely daughters.