Adaptec, Inc. (NASDAQ: ADPT), the global leader in I/O innovation,
today announced the appointment of Jared Peters to the position of Vice
President of Worldwide Sales. With more than 19 years of international
sales experience in the semiconductor, PC/server,networking,
and storage industries, Peters will lead Adaptec’s global sales
activities to support the company’s Data Conditioning Platform and
other innovative data storage hardware and software solutions.
“Jared brings nearly two decades of extensive international
sales experience, knowledge and leadership to Adaptec’s sales team,”
said S. “Sundi” Sundaresh, Adaptec’s president and CEO. “His track
record of successful sales development, channel sales and sales
execution easily made Jared the logical choice in selecting a candidate
to lead Adaptec’s global sales efforts. Adaptec is committed to
developing intelligent data center I/O
that lower costs, maximize system performance, and achieve green IT
objectives, and Jared will continue to play a key role in the company’s
ongoing success.”
Peters has been with Adaptec for 16 years and most recently
held the position of vice president of international sales, where he
was responsible for developing and driving European and Asian sales
strategies for Adaptec’s entire product portfolio. Previously, he
served as the director of sales for Asia.
Prior to Adaptec, Peters
worked as a product marketing manager at Conner Peripherals, a hard
disk drive manufacturer, where he was responsible for managing the
company’s high-end disk drive marketing
He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from Santa Clara University
and is a Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Information Storage
Technology.
