Virtual Iron hires Ed Walsh as new CEO, John McCarthy as Vice President of Sales

Quoting from the Virtual Iron official announcements for Ed Walsh:

Virtual Iron Software, a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure software, today announced that former EMC and Avamar executive, Ed Walsh, has joined the company as president and chief executive officer. Walsh takes the reins at the fast-growing company from John C. Thibault who remains with the company as executive chairman focusing on the company’s strategic direction.

Most recently, Walsh was vice president and general manager of EMC’s Information Management Software Group. Prior to joining EMC, Walsh served as CEO at Avamar Technologies, Inc., a venture-backed software firm acquired by EMC in late 2006. At Avamar, Walsh established the company as the leader in the next generation data protection and data de-duplication software market and led it to 700% revenue growth over 18 months. Avamar’s data de-duplication product received, along with VMware, one of the first Morgan Stanley IT Innovation Awards, recognizing the most impactful technologies in the data center. Previously, Walsh was senior vice president of sales, marketing and alliances for CNT, a publicly-traded storage networking company. There he re-aligned the company’s channel and go-to-market strategy and led CNT to record growth and profitability. CNT was acquired by McData Corporation in 2005. Prior to CNT, Walsh co-founded Articulent, a systems integrator and channel reseller focused on data management solutions…

Quoting from the Virtual Iron official announcements for John McCarthy:

Virtual Iron Software, a provider of enterprise-class server virtualization and virtual infrastructure software, today announced the hiring of former EMC and McData sales executive John McCarthy to lead its worldwide sales, channel and field operations. As senior vice president of sales, McCarthy will report to new president and CEO, Ed Walsh at the fast-growing company.

Most recently, McCarthy ran his own consulting firm, JEMO LLC., assisting companies with their sales, channel and go-to-market strategies. Prior to that, he was with Computer Technology Network (CNT) where he helped increase sales by 20% and gross margins by over 50% in just six months before the company was acquired by McData Corporation in 2005. At McData, McCarthy helped create the new McData/CNT sales organization in North America, integrating two different direct and indirect sales teams. Before joining CNT, McCarthy was president and chief operating officer of StorageApps, a pioneering technology company in the fast growing data storage management market. While at StorageApps, John grew sales from $30 million to $50 million before the company was acquired by Hewlett Packard in 2001…