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SanDisk is an American manufacturer of flash memory products, including memory cards and readers, USB flash drives, and solid state drives.

My passion is developing and executing partner go-to-market (GTM) strategies to achieve rapid revenue growth and market leadership. During my career with large (Cisco) and startup (Topspin, Chaparral, Breece Hill) firms, I have developed four principles to delivering partner GTM innovation and success: build a differentiated and sustainable strategy; assemble a great team and fanatically execute against clear objectives; adapt to change; and relentlessly listen to our customers. The highlights of my capabilities and accomplishments include: - Global partner go-to-market expertise in: virtualization and cloud; mobility; multi-vendor solutions such as Flexpod and Big Data; line of business solutions such as customer experience; high performance computing systems; data storage - Leadership of global partner sales teams: grew solutions from $0 to $1B+ run-rate in 5 years; built startup sales teams and achieved marketshare leadership, resulting in successful corporate exits. - Relationships with partner market makers, including resellers, distributors, systems integrators and vendors (Cloudera, Citrix, Dell, EMC, HP, HDS, IBM, Informatica, Intel, Microsoft, MapR, NetApp, Nimble, Redhat, SAP, VMware). - Designated corporate speaker and press spokesperson - Global operational and program expertise across multiple partner business models.