FalconStor Software, Inc. (FALC) Appoints Robert Zecha as Executive Vice President and Chief Product Officer

A market leader in disk-based data protection, FalconStor Software proclaimed that Robert Zecha is to join its team as executive vice president and chief product officer. Zecha will oversee program management, product management, product development, and quality assurance.

Zecha will execute product strategy, as well as oversee FalconStor’s suite of data protection products. With extensive engineering and business management experience, Zecha will drive new solutions to resolve growing industry data protection issues.

President and CEO of FalconStor, Jim McNiel stated, “The new position of chief product officer demonstrates our commitment to designing and bringing to market original solutions that solve today’s complex data protection challenges.” McNiel continued, “with his entrepreneurial spirit, executive business leadership and a proven ability to execute, Rob will further our mission to develop innovative technology and promote new best practices that will ensure FalconStor’s position as the industry’s most trusted data protection partner.”

Previously Zecha held the role of vice president of engineering and operations for Altior. He has also held the positions of vice president of business development, engineering, and marketing at SMSC and vice president of engineering as founder of Afide. Additionally Zecha founded and led NetVision Corporation to a successful acquisition by Network Peripherals. Robert Zecha is currently a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

“Today’s storage and data protection market is undergoing a major shift as legacy solutions prove inadequate in the face of unabated data growth, broad adoption of virtualization, cloud-based services and Big Data,” comments Zecha. “In addition, recent events have turned a spotlight on the need for continuous business operations and automated disaster recovery solutions that will eliminate costly downtime. Organizations need to migrate to new ways of managing and protecting critical business information and IT services – and FalconStor is uniquely qualified to meet that need and take advantage of a huge market opportunity.”

For more information, please visit www.falconstor.com

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