GARDEN CITY, NY--(Marketwire - March 29, 2011) - Data Storage Corporation (DSC), a provider of data protection and business continuity solutions, today announced the appointment of John Coghlan to its Board of Directors. With more than 30 years in the financial services industry and his experience serving on multiple boards, Mr. Coghlan is well-positioned to provide DSC with guidance on its investment and strategic growth initiatives.
"John's extensive knowledge of the financial market and his ability to lead companies to financial success and stability makes him a tremendous asset for our board and the future growth of the company," said Chuck Piluso, Chairman and CEO of Data Storage Corporation. "We rely on our board of directors to advise us on important strategic decisions and we believe that adding John to the board will prove to be a gateway to the future success of Data Storage Corporation."
Mr. Coghlan was a managing director with Lehman Brothers, a global investment bank based in New York City, for 27 years. He served in numerous management capacities in the firm's fixed income and prime brokerage divisions and was a member of both the firm's fixed income and equity division's management committees. In 2008, Mr. Coghlan joined Barclays Capital and worked in the prime broker division until the summer of 2010. He is also a past chairperson of the Bond Market Association's funding division.
He is a former board member of Lehman Brothers Bank and is currently on the board for Molloy College. He has also served on the boards of the Dorothy Rodbell Cohen Foundation for sarcoma research, the Friends of Mercy Hospital and the Rockville Centre 911 Fund.
Mr. Coghlan received an undergraduate degree from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 1978 as well as an Honorary Doctor of Laws in 2002. He also has earned his EdM from Harvard University.
About Data Storage Corporation
DSC provides professional services focused on data protection and business continuity solutions that help organizations protect their data, minimize downtime, ensure regulatory compliance and recover and restore data quickly. Through its four data centers and by leveraging leading technologies, DSC delivers and supports a broad range of premium solutions for both Windows and IBM environments that help its clients save time and money, gain more control of and better access to data and enable the highest level of security for that data. The company's solutions include: offsite data protection and recovery services, High Availability (HA) replication services, email compliance solutions for e-discovery, continuous data protection, data de-duplication, virtualized system recovery and telecom recovery services. Headquartered in Garden City, N.Y., DSC offers its solutions and services to healthcare, banking and finance, distribution services, manufacturing, construction, education, and government industries by leveraging leading technologies, such as virtualization, cloud computing and cloud storage. For more information on DSC, visit www.datastoragecorp.com.
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