Zadara Appoints Shirley Braun Chief People Officer and Shiri Kerman VP of Engineering Amidst Accelerated Growth and Adoption of Cloud Services

New Leaders Tapped to Expand World-Class Organization Following Launch of AWS-Compatible, ‘as a Service’ Edge Cloud Solutions

Zadara, the edge cloud provider and leader in enterprise storage-as-a-service, announced the appointment of Shirley Braun and Shiri Kerman as chief people officer (CPO) and vice president of engineering, respectively. Braun and Kerman are experienced leaders recognized for their abilities in developing people functions and engineering teams for hyper growth organizations. These executives are in addition to the recent strategic hires in marketing and North America sales leadership teams.

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“These leaders are joining Zadara at a time of rapid growth and unlimited opportunity,” said Nelson Nahum, CEO, Zadara. “Their impressive track records and expertise will help us continue to best serve our rapidly growing network of partners, service providers, and enterprise customers with innovative edge cloud technologies and services. We couldn’t be more thrilled to welcome these top-notch executives to Zadara.”

Prior to joining Zadara, Braun served as CPO for Callisto Media, where she was instrumental in the growth of the company from 65 to nearly 400 people in just two years. At Zadara, Braun will lead the People function and its employee success initiatives, both of which are essential for effective growth. “Behind every successful company are its people,” said Braun. “I am excited to join Zadara during such a pivotal time for the business. I look forward to partnering with Zadara to continue to invest in employee success and talent while fostering the culture of innovation and change.”

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Kerman joins Zadara from Clarizen, where she was vice president of research & development, leading the development of Clarizen’s main product. Kerman also drove the development and deployment of a new SaaS service running in an AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure. While a Sr. Director at Dell, she was charged with their file storage product and successfully conducted an integration with leading storage products. In her new role as vice president of engineering, Kerman will oversee engineering with a focus on Zadara’s latest production-ready compute-as-a-service solutions, zCompute.

“Zadara is changing the way organizations access and secure their data with its fully managed edge cloud technologies and services,” said Kerman. “It’s an important time to be joining Zadara. I look forward to using my expertise in scaling and leading engineering teams capable of pioneering IT solutions that our customers and partners depend on, more so now than perhaps ever before.”

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