Bear Data Systems Appoints Brad Thompson Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing
San Francisco, Calif. (June 8, 2010) — BEAR Data Systems, Inc. a global IT solutions and services provider, today announced that Brad Thompson has been appointed Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing. This leadership expansion will strengthen the Company’s focus on preparations to exceed $100MM in revenue in 2010 and increase the Company’s ability to execute on its long term growth goals.
With more than 14 years of Value-Added Reseller experience, Brad Thompson will be responsible for overseeing the Company’s Sales and Marketing teams with the focus of increasing market presence, driving sales and diversifying BEAR Data’s traction in key verticals. In this role, Mr. Thompson will also be responsible for all vendor, manufacturer, and distributor relationships, concentrating on expanding opportunities for the Company’s key vendors, such as NetApp, Cisco and VMware, as well as adding the appropriate technologies so that BEAR Data can continue to offer it’s clients the most cost-efficient, scalable and technologically advanced solutions.
“We are excited to welcome Brad Thompson to the position of EVP Sales and Marketing for BEAR Data,” said Don James, CEO of BEAR Data Systems. “With Brad’s industry experience and proven track record I know that he’ll be a very important component to our continued aggressive growth plans.”
“I’m extremely excited to join BEAR Data at this stage in my career”, says Mr. Thompson. “They already have a phenomenal team in place and I look forward to working with them to continue to accelerate the success and rapid growth they’ve enjoyed over the past 5 years.”
About Brad Thompson
Prior to joining BEAR Data, Brad Thompson held two positions at FusionStorm as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Field Operations in 2009 and Vice President of Sales from 2003-2008. Under Mr. Thompson’s leadership at FusionStorm, the Company’s revenues grew from $30MM to over $470MM at a compounded annual growth rate of over 55 percent during that time period.
Prior to joining FusionStorm, he held various sales and management positions with Basis, Inc. and Avcom Technologies. Mr. Thompson holds a Bachelor of Arts from University of California at Berkeley. He also attended the Wharton School of Business Executive Development Program at University of Pennsylvania.
About BEAR Data Systems
BEAR Data Systems, Inc. is a global value-added reseller that helps enterprise clients design, optimize and support mission-critical IT infrastructures. By combining expert engineering resources, best-of-breed technologies and superior customer service, BEAR Data delivers high performance IT solutions and services including virtualization, unified communications, networking, storage, database, security, wireless, staffing and support contract management. For more information, please visit www.beardatasystems.com.
Accolades:
In 2010: #288 on the VAR 500 list.
In 2009: 913th Fastest-growing Private Company in America by Inc. 5000, #331 on the VAR500 list, Fast Growth 100 by CRN Magazine and #37 on the Top 100 Fastest Growing Private Companies by San Francisco Business Times.
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BEAR Data Systems
Shawna Beeman Zaw, Director of Marketing
415-788-1514
szaw@beardatasystems.com
