COSTA MESA, Calif., Dec. 8, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced the appointment of Steve Daheb to the role of company chief marketing officer (CMO). In this position, Daheb will lead the company's unified global marketing initiatives, including product and solution marketing, corporate business development, strategic alliances and routes to market. Daheb reports directly to Emulex chief operations officer (COO), Jeff Benck.
"Emulex is focusing on efficient execution, growth, diversification and market leadership and it's great to have Steve Daheb join the team to help us accomplish these objectives. As CMO, Steve will drive the company's strategic vision and coordinate its marketing initiatives on a global basis in order to meet these goals," said Jeff Benck, COO, Emulex. "Steve Daheb is recognized as a marketing leader by our customers and partners. He has a successful track record for developing winning marketing, business development, partnership and solutions strategies that will help us fully realize the growth opportunities in front of us."
"I look forward to working with the Emulex team to achieve our growth plans for existing and emerging markets by leveraging our current product portfolio and leading the way in new market trends, such as network convergence," said Steve Daheb. "This is a transitional time in the industry and we have an opportunity to play a leadership role as the market begins its migration to a fully converged network infrastructure to support data center consolidation, virtualization and the emergence of cloud computing."
Daheb brings a wealth of sales, marketing and business development experience to the company with his years at BlueArc, Tasman Networks, Brocade and Lucent/Ascend. In his previous position as senior vice president of marketing and business development at BlueArc, Daheb helped the company expand its position as a leading supplier of high performance NAS systems, including a tripling of its revenues over the most-recently completed two fiscal years, expansion of the company's vertical market focus and the addition of key OEM partners. Daheb has experience in Network Attached Storage (NAS), Storage Area Networks (SANs), Wide Area Networks (WANs), Local Area Networks (LANs) and Virtual Private Networks (VPN), providing him with a thorough understanding of the IT Industry as a whole.
About Emulex
Emulex Corporation creates enterprise-class products that intelligently connect storage, servers and networks. The world's leading server and storage providers rely on Emulex's award-winning HBAs, intelligent storage platforms and embedded storage products, including switches, bridges, routers and I/O controllers, to build reliable, scalable and high-performance storage and server solutions. Emulex is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:ELX) and has corporate headquarters in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at http://www.emulex.com.
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