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.

Mike Dodson was named Chief Financial Officer in May 2018. Prior to Quantum, he served as CFO of Greenwave Systems, a global software and managed services company for Internet of Things (IoT) solutions. Before joining Greenwave, Dodson was Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Mattson Technology, Inc., an international semiconductor process equipment manufacturer, from 2012 – 2017. Prior to his tenure at Mattson, Dodson served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at DDi Corp., a provider of printed circuit board engineering and manufacturing services. Before joining DDi, Dodson served as the CFO for three global public technology companies and Chief Accounting Officer for an S&P 500 company. Dodson started his career with Ernst & Young.

Elizabeth “Liz” King joined Quantum in March 2019 as Chief Revenue Officer. Liz has more than 25 years of experience in global sales and leadership spanning enterprise, public sector and telecom industries in over 30 countries. She is a veteran in the information technology market and has held key executive leadership roles in sales, general management, services, product management, marketing, alliances, supply chain and operations. Her expertise includes datacenter infrastructure & software, systems integration services, high performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and complex public sector projects, all on a broad, international scale.

Prior to Quantum, Liz was Vice President, Go-to-Market & Enablement, HPC & AI at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). Liz joined HPE as part of HPE’s acquisition of Silicon Graphics International (SGI), where she led worldwide sales and continued that role through the full integration of the company into HPE. Prior to SGI, she was vice president of strategic alliances for IBM and global systems integrators at Juniper Networks. Prior to Juniper, she was vice president & general manager of the Hitachi Server Group of Hitachi Data Systems where she was responsible for sales, marketing, operations and customer delivery of Hitachi servers and converged solutions. Liz also held key senior sales, business development and operations roles at Nokia (formerly Alcatel-Lucent), Oracle (formerly Sun Microsystems), Raytheon, and Texas Instruments.

Liz has a MBA with honors from the University of Dallas and a Bachelor’s of Science in mechanical engineering from Lehigh University.

John McKillop joined Quantum in August 2006, upon Quantum’s acquisition of ADIC. McKillop assumed the SVP of Global Sales role in October 2018. Prior roles at Quantum included SVP of Americas Sales, VP of Scale-out Storage and Federal Sales, Area Vice President of Sales in addition to various sales leadership positions in the past 14 years. Prior to Quantum, McKillop held various sales positions at companies in the data storage and data protection industry. McKillop is an entrepreneurial, results oriented and customer centric sales leader with a proven track record of exceeding sales quotas, building high-energy sales teams, creating sales cultures that respect all stakeholders, and developing mutually beneficial relationships with end-users, value-add resellers and complementary vendors.

Don Martella joined Quantum as Vice President, Automation Engineering in August 2006, upon Quantum’s acquisition of ADIC. In June 2010, he was promoted to Senior Vice President, Platform Engineering, and in April 2011 assumed his current role. Before joining Quantum, Martella served as a Vice President of Engineering and Quality at ADIC, where he spent five years in various leadership positions. Previously, he held engineering positions in the storage and process control industries.

Joining Quantum in 2001, Yves has held different increasing responsibilities across the company related to operations, manufacturing, quality, customer experience and global services. Yves is currently responsible for all activities related to global services, quality and customer experience at Quantum.

Yves is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of quality and customer experience responsibilities across different industries and product lines. Prior to Quantum, Yves worked for ADIC, a data storage solution provider, and led a manufacturing and quality team to adopt lean manufacturing principles to consistently deliver customer expectations just in time. Prior to that Yves worked at OEA Inc with high reliability automotive safety products (airbags) and was responsible for the worldwide quality approach in a rapidly evolving market. It included the creation and implementation of quality systems, customer and supplier management, new product introduction along with manufacturing process development and reliability programs. Yves holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering and statistics from the Universite de technologie de Compiegne, France.

As Quantum’s Chief of Staff, Jeff is responsible for the promotion and implementation of Quantum’s global strategy and organizational vision. Joining Quantum as Senior Director of Program Management and Product Test in 2006, upon Quantum’s acquisition of ADIC, he brings over 20 years of experience in systems integration, quality assurance and program management. Recently, he drove Quantum’s new product introduction and served as Chief Transformation Officer in early 2018 before being promoted to Chief of Staff.

Prior to joining Quantum, Jeff managed Program and QA functions at ADIC, where he spent three years in various leadership positions. Previously, he held systems integration and development positions in the telecommunications industry.

Jamie Girouard is an energetic and passionate industry thought leader focused on implementing innovative ideas to elevate the employee experience at Quantum. As Chief Human Resources Officer, Jamie is responsible for setting the company’s global human capital strategy and identifying new methodologies that drive cultural transformation and enhance team and company performance.

Jamie joined Quantum in 2015 and has more than 15 years of Human Resources experience. Jamie’s areas of expertise include total rewards, executive and international compensation, employee wellness, organizational effectiveness, data analytics, leadership development and change management.

Jamie has held positions as both an external consultant and as an internal advisor for privately and publicly traded companies. Prior to Quantum, she spent much of her career at TransUnion LLC, and Arrow Electronics.

Jamie has a Master’s degree in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the Chicago School of Professional Psychology and a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Colorado State University.

Outside the office, Jamie is the Executive Director for an all-volunteer non-profit organization that helps transition retiring thoroughbred racehorses into new careers. Jamie is a passionate equestrian herself who trains and competes in the sport of Eventing.

Natasha Beckley is the Senior Director of Marketing 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.

Eric Bassier leads product and technical marketing at Quantum, he and his team are responsible for driving Quantum’s product and go-to-market strategy globally.

Eric has over 18 years of experience designing, managing, and marketing enterprise storage products, and his writing has appeared in Wired, Business Solutions, Data Center Post, Data Center Knowledge, and more. Follow him at @ericbassier.

Appaji is a seasoned product-management executive with more than two decades of experience in high-tech markets with expertise in storage, networking, and cloud technologies. He is responsible for Quantum’s corporate strategy, and product and services management. Prior to Quantum, he worked in product roles at Seagate, Cisco, and HPE. He holds an MBA from University of California at Berkeley, and a Masters in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Shahid Khan joined Quantum in November 2018. He leads the Global IT organization for Quantum and is responsible for its strategy & vision.

Shahid has over two decades of experience transforming IT teams and deploying enterprise solutions around the globe. He has extensive experience working with international teams dispersed in multiple locations and enterprise solutions for ERP, logistics, manufacturing and warehousing. Prior to Quantum, Shahid served as CIO for Mattson Technology, where he was instrumental in successfully transforming the global infrastructure and redeploying the SAP ERP solution. Before Mattson, Shahid served as Global Head of IT for a software developer Lohika Systems (now part of Altran). At Lohika Shahid re-built the global IT organization in Eastern Europe and USA and deployed solutions to align IT with the business to achieve the highest levels of customer satisfaction and productivity. Shahid was also Founder and CTO of Intalect, a manufacturing execution control systems startup; Head of world-wide IT for Telegent; Senior Director of IT Asia Pacific and US West & Mexico for Celestica; and Head of IT for IMS. Shahid Studied Computer Science at Oregon State University.

Jim Vaughan is a Vice-President of service at Quantum, responsible for a large part of the Quantum services portfolio. Jim is strategic leader for Quantum’s service go-to-market strategies, service transformation and service delivery with key responsibilities for all product deployments in the America’s, Global Strategic Partner Management, Service Sales, Training & Documentation and Service Business Systems.

Jim is a seasoned executive with significant international experience and has been with Quantum and its predecessor companies for over 20 years. He has held a variety of leadership roles within the organization including VP Finance & Administration, VP Operations, VP of International Service and VP Service & Operations EMEA. Among his varied experience at Quantum Jim spent over five years in Europe leading the Operations and Service teams. During this time, he established Quantum’s EMEA call center and product repair depots in Europe. Jim was instrumental in scaling the Quantum service team during a time of significant growth. He also established the Quantum service team footprint in Asia by creating call centers and a field support network across Asia allowing Quantum to scale globally. Prior to joining Quantum, Jim held various leadership positions with other international companies, including Controller and VP Finance & Administration with Nakamichi Corporation Japan a leading supplier of high-end audio equipment, General Manager of Mass Optical Storage (MOST) an optical disk component supplier and an Emerging Business Services Consultant at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells. Jim holds a Bachelor of Sciences degree in Business/Accounting from California State University, Long Beach.

Scott Venhaus joined Quantum in October 2018 as Vice President of Supply Chain. Scott is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations while leading Quantum’s global supply chain transformation initiatives to deliver end to end solutions while driving profitability, growth and innovation.

Scott is a proven operational transformation leader with over 20 years of experience defining, leading and executing customer centric solutions in the electronics industry. Prior to Quantum, Scott had held operations, supply chain, compliance and sales leadership roles in manufacturing, integration and distribution at Arrow Electronics, Encore Repair Services and General Electric. Scott’s experience includes successful business launches in Asia and Latin America, organization turn-around and restructures globally, including acquisition due diligence and post-acquisition integration.

Scott began his career serving seven years in the US Navy as an aviation supply chain and operations instructor, earning the Master Training Specialist designation.

Scott is a thought leader in manufacturing, electronics and electronic recovery industries. He serves on the board of directors of the Recycling Industry Operating Standard (RIOS), is a steering committee member for the World Recycling Forum in Asia and the International Electronics Recycling Congress in Europe.

Gilles has been the vice president EMEA sales at Quantum since April 2013. He joined Quantum in 2006 when they acquired his previous employer ADIC. In his time with the company he has been an integral part of the EMEA management structure, covering positions including director of strategic accounts, sales director for France for enterprise and midmarket and most recently country manager for France and Benelux.

He began his career at CPIS SSI, where he quickly progressed to sales manager for France and Luxembourg. During his time there, he switched the business focus to storage, resulting in them becoming a premium partner of Veritas Software and Sun. Then in 1998 Gilles moved to Veritas Software as major accounts manager, before joining ADIC Europe in 2000.

Gilles has built a successful and trustful relationship with global 2000 leading companies across EMEA and the US.

Neil Bannister joined Quantum in December 2009 as a first-level Development Engineering Manager. He is responsible for Development, Quality and Sustainment for the StorNext family of products, and also leads the global StorNext team.

Neil has held key leadership roles for more than 25 years and has been in the business of moving and managing data for 35+ years. Previously, he was a kernel device and systems programmer. During his college career, he authored a thesis on heterogenous data movement.

Neil also spent 26 years at Cray Research & SGI, with over half that time spent on HSM and Shared File-Systems. While managing SGI’s shared file-system CXFS, he spent a lot of his time with many of our current customers.

Bruno Hald has been with Quantum for over 25 years. He leads the engineering teams for tape automation, DXi and platform development.

Bruno is a seasoned engineering leader, with more than 25 years of experience in the data storage industry. He has been part of three different storage companies that have gone through a series of acquisitions to finally in 2006 integrate into Quantum. He has helped develop and launch many successful storage platforms throughout his career that generated significant revenues for the companies he worked for. Bruno holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and a master’s degree in Business Administration.

Greg Wade joined Quantum in August of 2011 with the acquisition of Pancetera Software. Greg and his team are responsible for incubating new product ideas and bringing them to market. Their charter is to increase market share and develop new market opportunities through innovation.

Greg is an experienced executive with more than 30 years of experience in data storage and storage startups. Prior to joining Quantum, he was founder and VP of Engineering of Pancetera Software a storage startup focused on Virtual Machine backup. He was an early employee of both Legato Systems and Datadomain where he held various engineering and leadership positions. He holds a BSCS degree from San Jose State University and a Master’s degree in Engineering Management and Leadership from Santa Clara University.