Stephen Pao

Igneous Systems, a company focused on bringing the value of cloud services to the customer premises, today announced recent additions to its executive team to bring its technology to market.  Stephen Pao was named Chief Marketing Officer and Marc Tanguay was appointed to the position of Vice President of Strategic Sales.  Both executives joined Igneous full-time after having served on the company’s Board of Advisors.

In his role as CMO, Stephen Pao is responsible for all marketing functions, including product management, product marketing, corporate marketing and channel marketing.  Prior to Igneous Systems, Pao was an early employee and executive at two fast-growing technology companies that did an Initial Public Offering (IPO) – Latitude Communications (now a part of Cisco) in 1999 where he was VP of Product Management and Barracuda Networks (NYSE:CUDA) in 2013 where he was SVP and GM of the Security Business.  In addition, Pao is a veteran of several other Seattle and Silicon Valley companies in their early phases, including Oracle Corporation, Visioneer (now a part of Nuance), Asta Networks, AskMe Corporation, and All Star Directories.  Pao is a graduate of MIT, with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering.