Our Leadership Team

Jamie Lerner joined Quantum in July 2018 as Chief Executive Officer and President. Jamie is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the business while leading Quantum’s multi-pronged transformation initiatives to drive profitability, growth and innovation.

Jamie is a seasoned executive, with more than 25 years of experience developing innovative technology portfolios and leading large, high-performing organizations. Prior to Quantum, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Pivot3 a leader in hyper converged infrastructure. At Pivot3, Lerner was responsible for field sales, technical support, professional services, supply chain and operations. Before joining Pivot3, Lerner held the position of President, Cloud Systems and Solutions, at Seagate Technology, where he was responsible for Seagate’s growth initiatives in cloud computing. Prior to Seagate, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group at Cisco. He also was Founder, President, and CEO of CITTIO Inc., an enterprise system monitoring software company; Senior Software Architect and Product Manager at Platinum Technology (acquired by CA); and, a Senior Consultant at Andersen Consulting. Jamie holds a bachelor's degree in quantitative economics and decision sciences from the University of California, San Diego.

Ken Gianella joined Quantum in 2023 as Quantum’s Chief Financial Officer. With vast business expertise in technology, international finance, manufacturing, operations, and sales to government and other regulated industries, Ken plays a critical role on the company’s executive team.

Ken has more than 25 years of operations and finance experience in the tech industry working for both public and private multinational companies in roles including CFO, IRO, Treasurer, and Senior Vice President of Finance. Most recently he was at Itron with roles leading Investor Relations, Mergers, Divestitures, & Acquisitions, ESG Strategy, and as a Divisional CFO. Ken joined Itron after its acquisition of Silver Spring Networks (SSNI) where he held several senior finance roles, including serving as interim CFO. Prior to SSNI, Ken held multiple finance leadership positions at KLA-Tencor. Ken began his career in product management at various internet and telecommunication companies before becoming a General Manager at Allegheny Energy.

Ken holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Duquesne University and an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh’s Katz Graduate School of Business.

John Hurley joined Quantum in August 2021 as Chief Revenue Officer. John has over 25 years of experience as a high-performing sales leader building great sales organizations and creating value for customers and partners. He comes to Quantum from Cisco, where he led multiple customer segments, including Cisco’s largest commercial customers, as well as leading its Service Provider Business as Vice President of Sales. Before Cisco, John served as Dell Technologies’ Midwest area vice president, and he led several transformational early-stage software companies serving in leadership roles before being acquired by Microsoft and HP.

John is passionate about giving back and holds several Board positions, including Mott Children’s Hospital – Mott Golf Classic, Member of the America Heart Association in Dallas, as an ELT Member of their Cotes du Coeur premier event, and is heavily active in Cisco’s Detroit Community Efforts. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Pennsylvania State University.

Brian Pawlowski joined Quantum in December 2020 as Chief Development Officer. Brian is a distinguished technologist with over 35 years of experience in building technologies and leading teams at global technology companies, such as Sun Microsystems, NetApp, and Pure Storage. Brian previously served as vice president and chief architect at Pure Storage, where he focused on improving user experience for their all-flash storage platform. He also served as CTO at storage pioneer NetApp, where he joined as employee #18.

Brian began his career as a software engineer for several well-known technology companies, including Sun, where he drove technical analysis on alternate file system technologies. Brian served on the Board of Trustees for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and was a Board member at the Linux Foundation. Brian studied computer science at Arizona State University and studied physics at the University of Texas at Austin and MIT.

Brian joined Quantum in April 2021 and is the Chief Administrative Officer, responsible for both the legal and human resources functions for the company. A senior tech-industry executive from Silicon Valley, he brings over 25 years of legal, human resources, compliance, regulatory and finance experience to the organization. Brian recently served as Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the Northern California federal prosecutor’s office. Prior to that appointment, Brian was the Senior Vice President & General Counsel for NVIDIA, a Fortune 500 company, where he was responsible for legal, compliance, cybersecurity, physical security, and governmental and regulatory matters. With a background in hardware, software, and technology, he has held several notable positions at industry-leading companies, including Synopsys, Inc., Callidus Software, PeopleSoft, Netscape Communications and Silicon Graphics, bringing a breadth and depth of knowledge that supports Quantum’s future growth.

Brian has been a member of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute Advisory Committee as well as President of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley. He is a Senior Fellow with the American Leadership Forum – Silicon Valley and has been a guest lecturer at Stanford Law School and on the Dean’s Committee on Legal Education at USC Law. Brian holds both bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Southern California, a Diploma Superior from Universidad Javeriana in Colombia, as well as a Juris Doctorate from the USC Law School.

As Quantum’s Chief Customer Officer, Ross Fujii leads the global Services, Technical Support, Training, Customer Success and Enablement departments responsible for deploying, integrating, managing, and supporting Quantum’s end-to-end portfolio of solutions for customers and partners worldwide. Ross brings a fresh tech-forward approach to customer success based on service delivery platforms and automation, partnering with teams across Quantum to deliver measured, best-in-class customer experience. Ross joined Quantum in June 2021 as the General Manager of the Strategic Markets Business Unit and head of Product Marketing, where he drove and integrated the acquisitions of Pivot3 and EnCloudEn.

Ross has over 25 years of experience developing hybrid end-to-end solutions and leading enterprise customers through market transformations. Having held key leadership positions in both startups and large, established corporations, his breadth of experience spans strategy, service delivery, managed services, project management, engineering, architecture, and business development.

Before joining Quantum, Ross served as Vice President of Engineering and Alliances at SolarWinds where he managed the flagship Orion products and provided the enterprise market with customer-centric, modern IT management solutions in rapid growth to over $1 billion in revenues supporting a company IPO. He previously served in leadership roles at Cisco Systems, Seagate, Electronic Data Systems, and many Bay Area startup. Ross received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Laura Nash is Quantum’s Chief Accounting Officer and previously served as Quantum’s Controller since June 2019. Prior to that, Laura held various positions in Audit and Financial Accounting Advisory Services at Ernst & Young in both the US and the UK. Laura holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Aberdeen and a Certificate in Accounting from University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business. She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.

Natasha Beckley is the Chief Marketing Officer for Quantum. In this role, Natasha is directly responsible for Quantum’s brand and marketing strategy, partnering with teams across the organization to drive awareness, demand and growth.

Natasha has extensive experience in the industry, leading transformation with an emphasis on data-driven marketing, customer experience and integrated planning. Natasha joined Quantum in 2004, and previously held marketing roles at Sony, AppliedMicro, JNI Corp as well as agency-side positions serving Fortune 500 companies, such as Charles Schwab and Symantec, through to startups. Natasha holds an MBA from San Diego State University and a Bachelor of Science in Management from the University of Wales.

As Quantum’s Chief Information Officer, Willem leads the IT department responsible for building, maintaining and protecting Quantum’s internal IT infrastructure, and oversees the corporate program management office coordinating cross functional activities supporting the implementation of Quantum’s global strategy and vision, including new product introductions and M&A integrations. Willem joined Quantum in November 2018 as the Head of Internal Audit.

Prior to Quantum, Willem was the Head of Enterprise Risk Management and Compliance at eBay and implemented the channel compliance program at Juniper Networks. Willem started his career as an IT auditor/consultant with KPMG in the Netherlands followed by KPMG USA in San Francisco, CA.

Willem holds a master’s degree in Business Economics and Information Sciences from Tilburg University, The Netherlands. He also studied at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia.

Eric joined Quantum in November 2021 as Vice President of Supply Chain and Operations. Eric brings 25+ years of broad supply chain experience, managing everything from operations to developing strategic supplier technology engagements. Eric has deep experience with supply chains, factory operations, engineering, MBA business strategy and integration, and relationship management and has led large, highly cross-functional teams to execute strategic projects. Previously, Eric was with Seagate where he held multiple leadership roles managing global operations and the supply chain, in addition to developing strategic supplier technology agreements. Having managed operations in China and contract manufacturing facilities in Mexico, China, Singapore, and the U.S., Eric brings a global perspective and gratitude for every site and person in the worldwide supply chain. Eric holds a Bachelor's degree in Environmental Engineering from Michigan Technological University.

Jamie Lerner joined Quantum in July 2018 as Chief Executive Officer and President. Jamie is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the business while leading Quantum’s multi-pronged transformation initiatives to drive profitability, growth and innovation.

Jamie is a seasoned executive, with more than 25 years of experience developing innovative technology portfolios and leading large, high-performing organizations. Prior to Quantum, he served as the Chief Operating Officer of Pivot3 a leader in hyper converged infrastructure. At Pivot3, Lerner was responsible for field sales, technical support, professional services, supply chain and operations. Before joining Pivot3, Lerner held the position of President, Cloud Systems and Solutions, at Seagate Technology, where he was responsible for Seagate’s growth initiatives in cloud computing. Prior to Seagate, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Cloud and Systems Management Technology Group at Cisco. He also was Founder, President, and CEO of CITTIO Inc., an enterprise system monitoring software company; Senior Software Architect and Product Manager at Platinum Technology (acquired by CA); and, a Senior Consultant at Andersen Consulting. Jamie holds a bachelor's degree in quantitative economics and decision sciences from the University of California, San Diego.

Ms. Jacoby was Senior Vice President, Operations of Cisco Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in IT networking, until her retirement in January 2018. She was promoted to the role in July 2015 and was responsible for driving profitable growth and enabling operational excellence. Ms. Jacoby oversaw the supply chain, global business services, security and trust, and IT organizations. In her former role as Cisco’s CIO from 2006 to 2015, she made the Cisco IT organization a strategic business partner, producing significant business value for Cisco in the form of financial performance, customer satisfaction and loyalty, market share, and productivity. Since joining Cisco in 1995, Ms. Jacoby held a variety of leadership roles in operations, manufacturing and IT. Prior to joining Cisco, Ms. Jacoby held a range of planning and operations positions with other companies in Silicon Valley. Her extensive understanding of business operations, infrastructure and application deployments, as well as her knowledge of products, software and services helped her advance Cisco’s business through the use of Cisco technology. Ms. Jacoby served on the Board of Apptio, Inc., which provides cloud-based technology business management solutions to enterprises, from 2018 until its acquisition by Vista Equity Partners in January of 2019. Ms. Jacoby is a member of Quantum’s Leadership and Compensation Committee, as well as the Audit Committee.

Ms. Jacoby has served on the Board of the Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties and is a founding member of the Technology Business Management Council. Known for her strong track record of operational excellence, innovative problem solving and talent development, Ms. Jacoby was inducted into the CIO Hall of Fame by CIO magazine and was recognized by Forbes as a “Superstar CIO” in 2012.

Don Jaworski brings more than 40 years of delivering complex systems, scaling organizations and building new businesses. Currently, he is President and Chief Operating Officer of Lacuna Technologies, Inc., a leader in software that helps municipalities to operationalize digital infrastructure and manage transportation dynamically. At Lacuna, he leads execution and is focused on delivering value to Lacuna’s customers. Prior to joining Lacuna, Jaworski was CEO of SwiftStack, Inc., an open-source cloud data management company focused on large scale data applications, which was acquired by NVIDIA. He was SVP & GM of the core platform business at NetApp, where the team focused on the transition to scale-out systems. He has also held senior leadership roles at Brocade where he was the SVP of Product and at Nokia as the GM of the Enterprise Security business unit. Jaworski’s early career included management positions at Sun Microsystems and Amdahl Corporation.

Jaworski has been an advisor and board member for a number of early-stage companies. He received a B.S. in Computer Science from Bowling Green State University and an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Hugues Meyrath brings an extensive background in various leadership roles at global technology companies, most notably in the networking and data storage segments.

Most recently, he served as Chief Product Officer of ServiceChannel, acquired by Fortive in 2021. Before that, he was Vice President at Dell Technologies Capital where he was responsible for driving venture funding, mergers & acquisitions, and other advisory roles for a diverse set of portfolio companies. He also held the role of Vice President of Product Management and Business Development for EMC’s Backup & Recovery Services, which offers a wide portfolio of data protection and business continuity products. Meyrath’s experience also includes executive roles at Juniper Networks, Brocade Communications, SBS and Quantum.

Christopher D. Neumeyer is an executive vice president and portfolio manager at PIMCO, a global investment management firm that provides investment solutions to companies, educational institutions, foundations and endowments across the world. Since joining PIMCO in January 2010, Mr. Neumeyer has held multiple roles and is currently responsible for identifying, originating and structuring corporate investments across the capital structure in a variety of industries for various PIMCO-managed investment funds.

Previously, he held roles at Blackstone Group and Credit Suisse First Boston. Mr. Neumeyer earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business from Indiana University and is also a CFA® charterholder.

Mr. Marc E. Rothman is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BMC Software, Inc., a global leader in IT solutions for the autonomous digital enterprise, a role he has held since October 2020. From February 2013 until July 2020, Mr. Rothman was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at VeriFone Systems Inc., a leader in global payment services and solutions. Prior to VeriFone, Mr. Rothman served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Motorola Mobility Inc. He led Motorola Mobility’s spinoff from its former parent company, Motorola Solutions Inc., and its sale to Google in 2012. Mr. Rothman also served in finance leadership roles at Motorola Solutions Inc., General Instrument (GI), and Audit Advisory Services at Deloitte. Mr. Rothman is Chairman of Quantum’s Audit Committee and is a member of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee and the Leadership and Compensation Committee.

Ms. Emily White has served as Vice President of Enterprise Data and Analytics at NIKE, Inc. (NYSE: NKE), a company that manufactures and sells athletic apparel, since April 2020. Prior to NIKE, Inc., from February 2017 to April 2020, Ms. White served as Vice President of Enterprise Data Engineering at Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF), a consumer financial services company. From November 2013 to June 2015, Ms. White served in various capacities at General Electric Healthcare, a company that manufactures and distributes medical imaging modalities, including as Data Science Director and Global Commercial IT Director. Ms. White also previously served in various capacities at General Electric Transportation, a company that manufactures equipment for energy generation industries, including as Global Enterprise Resource Director and Senior Global Business Intelligence Program Manager, from May 2007 to October 2013.

Ms. White earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance from Shengyang Polytechnic University, a Master of Business Administration degree from Huron University, and a Master of Applied Mathematics degree in Computer Science at University of Central Oklahoma. Ms. White also holds a certificate in Health Economics & Outcomes Research from University of Washington. Ms. White’s extensive senior management experience, particularly in data science and analytics, brings valuable perspective to Quantum’s Board and to the oversight of these functions within Quantum.