Marc Tanguay

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, Tanguay is responsible for sales to the company’s strategic accounts.  Prior to Igneous Systems, Tanguay led strategic sales teams at both Isilon Systems and NetApp through their highest growth years, also spanning both Seattle and Silicon Valley.  Tanguay’s teams have served the world’s largest consumers of IT infrastructure, including Apple, Facebook, Yahoo!, LinkedIn, Cisco, Oracle and Intel. Tanguay was VP of Sales for Pillar Data Systems (now part of Oracle) where he helped win its first customers, developed its first sales team, and was key to developing its Go-to-Market strategy.  Tanguay is a graduate of Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal