“Our DataDomain unit has significantly reduced our backup and restore burden. Tape usage, which previously required weekly manual intervention, is now reduced to an occasional rotation for off-site storage. Even with our wide variety of data, including everything from e-mail to already compressed data sets, we are seeing an aggregate 10x compression ratio. The increased capacity and flexibility our DataDomain unit provides allows us more backup options for our departmental users and has made backups and restores an order of magnitude faster.” — Scott Karlin
Manager, Computing Facilities, Department of Computer Science, Princeton University

Management

Frank Slootman

President and Chief Executive Officer

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Frank Slootman has served as a member of our board of directors and as our President and Chief Executive Officer since July 2003. Prior to joining us, Mr. Slootman served as an executive at Borland Software Corporation from June 2000 to June 2003, most recently as Senior Vice President of Products. From March 1993 to June 2000, Mr. Slootman held management positions for two enterprise software divisions of Compuware Corporation.

Mr. Slootman earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

Michael P. Scarpelli

Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

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Michael Scarpelli is the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Data Domain. From January 2006 to September 2006, Mr. Scarpelli served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Lexar Media, Inc., a flash memory manufacturer which was acquired by Micron Technology, Inc. in 2006. From January 2002 to January 2006, Mr. Scarpelli held senior positions at HPL Technologies, Inc., a provider of yield management software and test chip solutions, most recently as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Scarpelli began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP from May 1989 to December 2001.

Mr. Scarpelli holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario.

Brian Biles

Vice President of Product Management

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Brian Biles co-founded our company in October 2001 and has served as our Vice President of Product Management since January 2006. From our inception to January 2006, Mr. Biles served as our Vice President of Marketing. From March 1999 to April 2001, Mr. Biles served as Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at VA Linux Systems, Inc., a provider of Linux and open source systems and services.

Mr. Biles holds a B.A. in Information and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Kai Li, Ph.D.

Chief Scientist

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Kai Li co-founded our company in October 2001. Dr. Li has been consulting as Chief Scientist for us since September 2002. In addition, Dr. Li served as our Chief Technology Officer from October 2001 to August 2002 and as President and Chief Executive Officer from November 2001 to February 2002. Dr. Li has also served as a member of our board of directors since the company’s inception. Since September 1986, Dr. Li has also been a professor of Computer Science at Princeton University. He was elected as ACM Fellow in 1998 and served as a board member of the Intel Microcomputer Research Lab Advisory council.

Dr. Li holds a B.S. in computer science from Jilin University, an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University.

Daniel R. McGee

Senior Vice President of Engineering

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Daniel McGee is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at Data Domain. From March 2004 to February 2006, Mr. McGee was the Vice President of Engineering for Aventail Corporation, a provider of secure remote access products. From August 1999 to March 2004, Mr. McGee held various senior management positions at Pinnacle Systems, Inc., a provider of video editing solutions, TV tuners for personal computers and digital media adapters.

Mr. McGee holds a M.S. in Engineering Management from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from Oregon State University.

Hugo Patterson, Ph.D.

Chief Architect

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Hugo Patterson joined us in March 2002 and has served as our Chief Architect since May 2002. From November 1999 to March 2002, Dr. Patterson was the lead architect for data availability and management at Network Appliance Inc., a provider of storage and data management solutions.

Dr. Patterson holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Pete Rukavina

Senior Vice President of Operations

Pete Rukavina

Pete Rukavina joined Data Domain in March 2008. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rukavina served as Vice President, Business Operations, for Cisco Systems, Inc. from 2005 to 2008.  Prior to that, Mr. Rukavina served as General Manager of the Cisco Content Networking Business Unit with Cisco Systems.  Mr. Rukavina has also held various executive positions within Cisco Systems’ manufacturing and operations, including Director of Operations for both the Access/Multi-service Edge Routing Business and the Internet Switching and Services Group.  Prior to joining Cisco Systems in 1991, Mr. Rukavina held management positions with Corning Glass and Conoco.

Mr. Rukavina holds a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

David Sangster

Vice President of Operations

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David Sangster has served as our Vice President of Operations since September 2004. From January 2000 to September 2004, Mr. Sangster held various executive positions, including Director of New Product Introduction, at McDATA Corporation, a provider of data access solutions (recently acquired by Brocade Communication Systems, Inc.), and Director of Manufacturing at Nishan Systems, Inc., a supplier of IP storage solutions (later acquired by McDATA Corporation).

Mr. Sangster holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Manufacturing Systems Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University.

David L. Schneider

Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales

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David Schneider is the Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Data Domain. From January 2003 to December 2003, Mr. Schneider served as Vice President of Alliances, Channel and OEM sales for Borland Software Corporation. From May 2002 to January 2003, Mr. Schneider served as Vice President of Western United States Sales for TogetherSoft Corporation (later acquired by Borland Software Corporation). From January 1999 to May 2002, Mr. Schneider was Western Regional Manager at Iona Technologies, Inc.

Mr. Schneider holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Beth L. White

Vice President of Marketing

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Beth White has served as our Vice President of Marketing since February 2006. From May 2004 to January 2006, Ms. White was Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Aarohi Communications, Inc., an intelligent storage component provider (later acquired by Emulex Corporation). From December 2000 to November 2003, Ms. White was Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Vixel Corporation, a storage switch company (later acquired by Emulex Corporation).

Ms. White holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Northern Arizona University.

Ming Benjamin Zhu

Chief Research Officer

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Benjamin Zhu co-founded our company in October 2001 and has served as our Chief Research Officer since February 2007. From January 2001 to September 2001, Mr. Zhu served as Entrepreneur in Residence at U.S. Venture Partners, a venture capital firm.

Mr. Zhu holds a B.S. in Computer Science & Applied Mathematics from the University of Rochester and an M.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.