Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 10, 2002

David Scott – 3pardata Inc

DAVID SCOTT joined 3PARdata in January 2001 as President and CEO, bringing 17 years of experience in the enterprise storage, software and server market. He was previously the General Manager of Hewlett- Packard's XP enterprise storage business in the Network Storage Solutions Organization that successfully grew from first introduction in May 1999 to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue 2000, leading HP to move from sixth to third place in the external storage market as reported by IDC. Prior to his last role, Mr. Scott was the Marketing Manager for HP's overall Enterprise Storage Business Unit and previously he was responsible for Business Strategy for HP's Enterprise Systems Group. He started with Hewlett-Packard in its UK field operation in 1983 in systems engineering and sales positions in the Financial Services markets in London. In 1991 he moved to the HP 9000 Enterprise Server business headquartered in Cupertino, California, holding various positions in product marketing management for the HP-UX operating environment and the 5nines:5minutes mission critical program. Mr. Scott holds a Bachelor's Degree with Honors in Computer Science and Mathematics from Bristol University in the UK. Profile
TWST: Would you start with a brief overview of the history and evolution

of 3PARdata?

Mr. Scott: 3PARdata was founded back in May 1999. We are building a new

class of utility storage server