Technology >> CEO Interviews >> November 13, 2000
JOEL D. REICH, Vice President of Marketing, is HighGround's chief
business evangelist and company spokesperson. His responsibilities also
include market analysis, new business opportunity assessment and
incubation, and strategic planning. He joined HighGround in December
1999. Prior to HighGround, Mr. Reich was Director of Product Management
for the CLARiiON division of EMC Corporation. Mr. Reich has 15 years of
senior storage marketing management experience, including roles as
Director of Marketing for Conner Peripherals Storage Systems Group and
Vice President of Marketing for AIWA/Core International. He holds a BA
in Economics from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA. Profile
DENNIS GRANT is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer
of Creekpath Systems, Inc. Mr. Grant founded HighGround Systems
in 1995 and served as President and CEO. Sun Microsystems
acquired HighGround Systems in April 2001, at which time he was
placed in charge of Sun's software solutions for the storage
market. Mr. Grant started HighGround with a clear vision: to
provide software solutions that would manage the explosion in
network storage caused by emerging Internet, messaging, e-
business and data mining applications. Before founding
HighGround, he was Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations,
Marketing and Sales Support for StorageTek of Louisville,
Colorado, a manufacturer of enterprise storage systems. Before
joining StorageTek, Mr. Grant spent 12 years at DML, Ltd., a
consulting services and integration provider in Europe, where he
became President and CEO. Profile
Systems, Inc.?
Mr. Grant: HighGround was started about five years ago with the goal of
building tools to manage storage
