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.
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.
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.
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 Internet Security company PC Tools for Australian Headquartered PC Tools and 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.