Geoff Barrall

Current

• Board Member at Nexsan Technologies
• CEO at Data Robotics Inc.

Past

• Board Member at Tacit Networks
• Principle and Founder at Barrall Consulting
• CTO, SVP Marketing and Founder at BlueArc

• CTO and Founder at BlueArc
• CTO, SVP Engineering and Founder at BlueArc
• Head of Services at Ultima Business Systems
• Founder and Partner at Network Alliance
• CEO and Founder at VCI Systems

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Education

• The University of Reading
• The University of Reading

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Hardware

Geoff Barrall’s Summary

Experienced executive having served as CEO, EVP, SVP Marketing, SVP Engineering and SVP Services over the years. Also currently serving on the boards and advisory boards of a number of startup companies in the storage space.

Geoff Barrall’s Specialties:

Product Strategy, Marketing Strategy, Technology Consulting

Geoff Barrall’s Experience

• Board Member

  Nexsan Technologies

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Member of the Board of Directors at Nexsan Technologies.

• CEO

  Data Robotics Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  April 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)

  CEO and Founder of Data Robotics Inc. (formally Trusted Data)

• Board Member

  Tacit Networks

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  July 2004 — September 2006 (2 years 3 months)

  Served on the board focused on helping with business development, product and marketing strategy. Tacit was sold to Packeteer in 2006.

• Principle and Founder

  Barrall Consulting

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2004 — April 2005 (9 months)

  Working with established companies such as Brocade on product strategy and several startup companies such Tacit Networks and Data Domain on product development and marketing strategies.

• CTO, SVP Marketing and Founder

  BlueArc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  May 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 4 months)

  During this period served as the company CTO and directed product strategy. Managed all aspects of marketing including Product Marketing, PR and Marcom. Grew lead generation from marketing activities by 400% and turned marketing into a profit rather than cost center in terms of lead generated revenue.

• CTO and Founder

  BlueArc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  May 2001 — May 2003 (2 years 1 month)

  Served as corporate CTO. During this period I presented on the CTO panel at most major storage events, wrote an industry commentary piece which had a readership of 60,000 at it's peak, directed company strategy and was rated #9 most key guy in the storage industry by Byte and Switch.

• CTO, SVP Engineering and Founder

  BlueArc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

  November 1998 — May 2001 (2 years 7 months)

  During this period I founded BlueArc and grew the core engineering team from zero to around eighty individuals. Developed and brought to market the worlds first SiliconServer.

• Head of Services

  Ultima Business Systems

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1997 — November 1998 (1 year 6 months)

  During this period I managed all technical operations for Ultima who were the number 2 and number 3 reseller for Digital and Compaq in the UK. I designed and managed the implementation of many international data center rollouts including customers such as General Motors, BMW and several international banks.

• Founder and Partner

  Network Alliance

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1996 — June 1997 (1 year 1 month)

  Founded and built a company specializing in the import and distribution into channel of new innovative US technology products into the UK channel from companies such as Packeteer and NetScout.

• CEO and Founder

  VCI Systems

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1994 — June 1996 (2 years 1 month)

  During this period created a company to outsource small business IT support for many UK based companies. Managed all aspects of IT including supply, installation and support.

Geoff Barrall’s Education

• The University of Reading

  Phd , Cybernetics , 1990 — 1993

  Specialties in systems, cellular computing, robotics and virtual reality

• The University of Reading

  Bsc 1st Class Honors , Cybernetics , 1987 — 1990

Additional Information

Geoff Barrall’s Groups:

•    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
•    Storage: SAN, NAS
•    High Performance & Super Computing
•    Churchill Club

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