Dipl.-Ing. Holger Gottwald

Analyst relationship for the storage analysts company „Gartner“. Achievement: From a relatively unknown company to a Gartner Customers' Choice product now the second time in a row. Global Allíance Manager for Red Hat, Fujitsu and NetApp Business enablement and development. Facilitate and support contacts on all levels to gain substantial business.

- Enhanced portfolio of backup and archiving software (mainly EMC, Symantec, CommVault) - Team lead for 6 direct reports - Product management and support of business development - Lifecycle management - Evaluation, selection and introduction of new vendor companies and new products - Negotiation of purchase contracts with vendors - International sales, presales, technical field support - Customer presentations - Escalation management - International alliance management

- End-to-End responsibility for business with EMC backup and archiving software and OEM derivatives (NetWorker, DataProtection Advisor, EmailXtender, SourceOne) - Team lead for up to 10 direct reports - Product management and business development - Lifecycle Management - Evaluation, selection and introduction of new products - Negotiation of purchase contract with vendors - Coordination of development and QA - International sales, presales, technical field support - Alliance management

- Software development (Unix, Windows) of backup modules (for the backup product Networker) for databases and applications: Informix, Oracle, SQL, Exchange, SAP R/3 - Team lead for 6 direct reports plus additional Consultant - Software design, development, bug Fixing - General and customer specific development - International alliance management on different Levels - International engagement with customer, sales, field and service engineers - Support of marketing campaigns