Ken Shaw
Founder/CEO
Ken Shaw Jr. serves as CEO and CTO of Infrascale. Mr. Shaw is an experienced engineer and entrepreneur in the cloud storage and online backup industry. His expertise in storage oriented cloud computing and offshore software development has led him to be a thought leader in the cloud storage industry.
For the past 12 years Mr. Shaw has founded and operated several software companies focused on building massively scalable cloud storage systems for backup, archiving and collaboration. Mr. Shaw originally founded SOS Online Backup with two employees and has grown it into Infrascale, with 100 employees world-wide.
Since its inception, Infrascale has protected millions of end-points and today has more than 1,000 integration and distribution partners around the world across its product portfolio. Hundreds of thousands of businesses and companies around the world use Infrascale’s technology to protect, share manage and archive their data in the cloud.
Prior to founding Infrascale and SOS Online Backup, Mr. Shaw consulted for the US Government on offshore technology trade policy, prior to which, he ran Safe Offsite Pty Ltd, and JNS Technology, two related businesses in Australia, that focused on custom private cloud backup, storage and content management solutions for SMBs.
Bill Falk
Chief Revenue Officer
Bill Falk is the Chief Revenue Officer, leading the company’s worldwide Sales, Channel, Business Development, and Customer Care operations.
Prior to Infrascale, Bill held a variety of leadership positions in high technology companies for over thirty years. Most recently Bill was the Chief Revenue Officer for Datto, a provider of backup, disaster recovery and intelligent business continuity.
Bill also served as EVP, Global Sales for Kaseya, (acquired by Insight Venture Partners), a leading provider of IT service management software, where he was their fifth employee overall and instrumental in designing the company’s original go-to-market strategy that saw revenues increase from zero to $90 million.
His dynamic background includes time spent in the enterprise application software, desktop software, and systems integration space. He has extensive experience working in start-up firms, assisting in their growth and building value.
Earlier in his career Bill helped run several companies, specializing in sales, marketing and business development areas. He has extensive experience building and managing sales teams responsible for selling technology to some of the world’s largest companies. His experience also includes the building of several large reseller channels responsible for significant revenue contribution and market share growth. Bill has participated in many new product launches and has a deep understanding of early adopter sales strategies and processes. Finally, Bill has a broad understanding of business relationships and how they can be structured to improve a company’s position in the marketplace.
Reagan Y. Sakai
Chief Financial Officer
Reagan Sakai is the Chief Financial Officer of Infrascale. Reagan has 25+ years of experience managing growth and turnaround environments for private and public companies. He has been Chief Financial Officer at public companies Lantronix and Crossroads Systems, which he took public in 1999. As Chief Financial Officer at private companies (HyPerformix Corporation, VIEO, BlueCava), he successfully raised venture capital and debt financing on multiple occasions from multiple sources. He has M&A experience from both acquisition and divestiture points of view.
Reagan’s primary responsibility is to direct the overall finance, accounting, operational and administrative activities for Infrascale including reporting, planning, analysis & forecasting, treasury & funds management, procurement and capital investments, corporate governance and human resources. He is also responsible for overseeing systems and processes including operations of offices overseas.
Reagan started his career at data-storage companies: StorageTek, McDATA, Maxtor, and Exabyte before becoming CFO. In addition to data storage, he has CFO-level experience in data networking, storage area networking, software/SaaS, and digital marketing companies. He has also served as interim CEO at both public and private companies in addition to his CFO responsibilities.
He has served on the boards of Peak2Peak Charter School (Boulder), University of Texas Federal Credit Union (Austin), and WebWiseKids (Costa Mesa). He received both his Bachelor of Science in Finance and MBA from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu.
Chris Sterbenc
Senior VP of Sales / Channel Chief
A seasoned sales and business development executive with more than 25 years of direct and indirect sales experience in information and communications technology, Sterbenc is well known in the channel community for his leadership and expertise with managed service providers (MSP’s) and resellers.
Most recently, he led FreedomVoice through three years of accelerated revenue growth, resulting in its successful acquisition by GoDaddy in 2016. Before joining FreedomVoice, Sterbenc was vice president of sales at Silicon Valley startups Axcient, Inc., and Untangle Inc. where he launched and developed successful channel programs that grew to include hundreds of MSP and reseller partners. Prior to engaging in the MSP community, he was the general manager for content-management solutions at Microsoft following Microsoft’s acquisition of NCompass Labs Inc., where he had been vice president of sales. At Rainmaker Systems, one of the earliest sales and marketing outsource firms in the Silicon Valley, he led the sales effort from zero to $48M annual revenue in four years.
Early in his career, Sterbenc held sales and sales management roles at Edify Corporation and IBM.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in computer and informational sciences from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
An avid golfer and avowed sports nut, Sterbenc says he has a fondness for red wines and cheeses.
Dean Nicolls
VP of Marketing
Dean Nicolls has over twenty years of B2B marketing leadership experience working with some of the largest and fastest growing cloud companies, including Starbucks, Microsoft, and a number of early stage tech start ups
Prior to joining Infrascale, Dean was the VP of Marketing for TeleSign, the leading cloud-based, solution for phone-based two-factor authentication, and VP of Marketing for LiveOffice, a cloud-based email archiving company that was acquired by Symantec for $115 million in 2012. He has considerable experience in B2B demand generation, channel marketing, social marketing, public/analyst relations, sales/partner enablement, and brand development.
Dean received a BS in Business from Pepperdine University and his MBA from the University of Washington.
Stephane Fymat
VP of Product Management &
Product Marketing
Stephane Fymat has over 20 years of experience in leading technology and product management teams at both tech start-ups and large software companies. Prior to joining Infrascale, he led efforts to make Passlogix, an industry leader in the enterprise security space, to be recognized by Gartner and purchased by Oracle. He is fluent in French and Spanish and received a BS in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from UCLA and an MBA from Columbia University. He is passionate about aeronautics and holds a personal pilot’s license.
Alexey Turchanikov
Country Manager Ukraine
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.