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Leadership Team

  • Geoff Barrall
    Board Member

    Geoff Barrall has brought his tremendous insight and storage industry experience to the Nexsan board. Geoff currently serves as CEO of Data Robotics, maker of the world's first storage robot, a company he founded in 2005. Geoff has founded five companies including BlueArc Corporation, a supplier of enterprise Network Attached Storage (NAS), as well as several IT and consulting services firms. With more than a dozen storage-related patents to his credit, Geoff brings rich technology expertise and deep hands-on executive-level operational experience to Nexsan. In addition to his roles at Data Robotics and BlueArc, he served on the board of directors of Tacit Networks and was an executive consultant to the senior team at Brocade Communications. His storage experience also includes sitting on the boards of advisors for Data Domain and NeoPath.

  • Philip Black
    Board Member

    Storage and telecom industry veteran Philip Black brings more than 30 years of experience as a CEO and board member to Nexsan. Prior to Nexsan, Philip was President and CEO of LightSand Communications, a market leader in the development of SAN connectivity products. Prior to that, he was a Managing Partner at IN_Fusion, a storage industry consulting firm. He has also served as CEO of Box Hill / Dot Hill (NYSE HIL), a storage systems manufacturer he took public in '97, and founder and CEO of Tekelec (NASDQ TKLC), a telecom equipment provider he took public in '86.

  • William J. Harding
    Board Member

    William J. Harding has served as a director of Nexsan since April 2009. Mr. Harding has served as a Managing Director of VantagePoint Capital Partners, a venture capital firm, since October 2007. Prior to joining VantagePoint, Mr. Harding was a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley & Co., President of Morgan Stanley Venture Partners and a Managing Member of several venture capital funds affiliated with Morgan Stanley, where he was employed from 1994 through 2007. Mr. Harding also served as an officer in the Military Intelligence Branch of the U.S. Army Reserve. In the previous five years, Mr. Harding has served as a director for InterNap Network Services Corporation and Aviza Technology Inc. Mr. Harding brings to the board his substantial prior experience as an investor in technology companies, as well as his prior experience serving on the boards of directors of technology companies. Mr. Harding is one of the designees of VantagePoint Capital Partners.

  • Philip B. Livingston
    Board Member

    Philip Livingston has brought his remarkably diverse leadership background to Nexsan's board. He is Chief Executive Office of LexisNexis Marketing & Business Solutions, a division of Reed Elsevier. Philip has previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of TouchTunes Music Corp., a leading provider of touch screen digital jukeboxes. Before that, Philip served as Chief Financial Officer of Duff & Phelps LLP, a leading provider of independent financial advisory and valuation services and as Vice Chairman of Approva Corporation, a leading provider of enterprise controls management software. Philip was Chief Financial Officer and board member of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc., a media and entertainment company. He was also the President of Financial Executives International, the leading professional organization for CFOs and Controllers. In that role he had a significant role in the formulation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. He has served on nine public company boards and held numerous private company directorships. He is a certified public accountant.

  • Richard McGinn
    Co-Chairman of the Board

    Richard McGinn adds his many years of entrepreneurial experience to Nexsan's board of directors. He is a General Partner of M R Investment Partners, an information tech private equity firm. He has been a General Partner for RRE Ventures, a leading investment advisory and venture capital firm, since 2001. He also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lucent Technologies. He previously held several executive positions at AT&T including, AT&T Data Systems President and AT&T Network Systems CEO. Richard also serves as a director of the American Express Company, Via Systems, Inc and Verifone Systems Inc.

  • Arthur L. Money
    Board Member

    Arthur Money has served as a director of Nexsan since 2007. He currently serves as President of ALM Consulting. He has also served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (ASD (C31)) and as the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer. Arthur currently serves as a board member for Intelli-Check, Inc., a leading provider of identity management solutions, and Terremark Worldwide, Inc., a leading provider of information technology infrastructure services.

  • Geoff Mott
    Board Member

    Geoff Mott has added his broad leadership and market experience to Nexsan's board of directors since 2003. He is a Managing Director of VantagePoint Venture Partners, a leading venture capital firm focusing on technology companies. Prior to joining VantagePoint, Geoff was Managing Partner of The McKenna Group, a global strategy consulting firm, and earlier in his career built a business strategy practice for technology firms at Lochridge & Co.

  • Michael F. Price
    Board Member

    Michael F. Price earned his bachelor's degree in 1973 from the University of Oklahoma. In 1999 the University of Oklahoma honored him with a Doctor of Humane Letter. Michael F. Price was Chairman of the Board of Franklin Mutual Advisers and Franklin Mutual Series Fund. He had been associated with both entities and their predecessor organizations since 1975. At that time the adviser was known as Heine Securities Corp and the fund was Mutual Shares Fund. Michael was Vice President of the fund from 1975 until 1986. From 1986 until November 1, 1998 he was CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of the adviser and the fund, which came to be known as Mutual Series Fund. Presently, Michael is the President of The Price Family Foundation, Inc.; Managing Partner of MFP Investors LLC and Director of Liquidnet Holdings. He also serves on Boards for The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Johns Hopkins Medicine

  • George Weiss
    Co-Chairman of the Board

    George Weiss has served as a member and Chairman of Nexsan's board since 2001. George founded Beechtree Capital LLC, a private venture capital and business advisory firm, in 1993 and is currently its chairman and chief executive officer. George previously served as a senior partner at the law firm Rubin Baum, LLP.