Technology >> CEO Interviews >> January 7, 2003

Peter Dougherty – Mcdata Corporation (mcdt)

PETER DOUGHERTY is Vice President of Business Development and Strategic Alliances at McDATA Corporation. He has more than 17 years' experience designing and marketing storage, input/output, and storage networking technologies. Prior to being promoted to his current position, Mr. Dougherty was responsible for managing McDATA's software solutions, consisting of McDATA's storage area network (SAN) management applications and embedded software products. Prior to joining McDATA, Mr. Dougherty held various marketing, management and engineering positions at Western Digital Corp. and Unisys Corp. Mr. Dougherty holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the College of New Jersey, conducted graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently on the Board of Directors for the Fibre Channel Industry Association. Profile
TWST: Would you give us a brief history as well as a present

overview of McDATA Corporation?

Mr. Dougherty: McDATA is a 20-year-old company that's been

involved in storage and data networking.