Karl possesses more than 25 years of experience in IT Technology strategy and business management. He specializes in distributed systems, storage, enterprise software and virtualization. He has successfully built and sold two entreprenuerial start-up businesses including LeftHand Networks, which was acquired by HP for $360M in November, 2008 and NuView ManageX, which was acquired in 1997.

He has executive management experience in strategy development, business development, marketing, channels, sales management. Karl' s skills include P&L and business unit management, fund-raising, OEM licensing, and mergers & acquisition. His former roles include VP of Bus Dev & Marketing at LeftHand Networks, VP of Marketing at BMC Software, VP of Bus Dev & Marketing at NuView Inc., and senior management positions at Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, and Digital Equipment Corp. He has developed strategic partnerships and negotiated licensing deals industry leaders including Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, Intel, HP, IBM, Dell, Cisco & Citrix Systems and many other world-class enterprise computing companies.

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