Daniel Marshall, an entrepreneur in the storage systems business, has joined Omneon Video Networks as vice president of worldwide sales. At Omneon, Marshall will run the sales operations worldwide for the company's Networked Content Server, an infrastructure for new media. He brings extensive experience to their sales, service and distribution network for the entire line of integrated networking and storage products. Marshall comes to Omneon from StorageWay, a recognized leader in the storage service provider market, where he was the cofounder and vice president of sales.

"Dan brings over 16 years of executive level experience in the hardware and software storage markets where he has built aggressive, successful international sales organizations," said Larry Kaplan, Omneon president and CEO. "His experience building and managing multi-million dollar sales teams with products and services offered to traditional open systems and client/server markets will further strengthen Omneon's position in the marketplace."

"Omneon is on track to capitalize on their strength within the broadcast market and emerge as a leader of storage products for applications including broadband segments," said Dan Marshall, Omneon vice president of worldwide sales. "Our sales and distribution organization are key to formulating and driving the direction within the company."

As a cofounder of StorageWay, Marshall was instrumental in procuring three rounds of financing, while he established and grew the company's sales into multi-millions for its managed storage services to Enterprise and Internet businesses.

Prior to StorageWay, Marshall was the vice president of sales, Western United States for MTI Corporation, where he launched the Internet storage division and increased new accounts significantly. Before that, he was the vice president of worldwide sales at Network Power and Light, a division of Mylex Corporation. At NP&L, Dan established a worldwide base of OEM, system integrator and distribution partners, as well as building a high-performance application engineering staff and sales force from the ground floor. Prior to NP&L, Marshall held several executive level sales positions at Mylex Corporation - a tenure spanning over six years.

Dan has held senior sales management positions at several companies where he is credited with consistently exceeding sales quotas and building winning sales networks. He directed sales organizations at Kalok Corporation, a design, development and manufacturer of removable hard disk drives, and Storage Dimensions, a manufacturer of optical storage subsystems, storage enhancement software and hard disk mass storage systems.

He has a BS in Business Administration and Economics from San Jose State University, San Jose, California.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Omneon Video Networks provides infrastructure for new media. Omneon's Networked Content Server is a highly scalable, data-type independent, shared-storage infrastructure. The solution is a platform that supports third-party software applications for control and transmission, media management, archive, and collaborative production. Omneon systems are used by content producers and distributors for simultaneous program creation and re-purposing for any type of distribution method. Omneon's products consist of server, disk controller, scalable Fiber Channel storage components, and software that together form a content server system. Channel or user scalability is achieved by using both IEEE 1394 and Ethernet networking technologies. This open systems architecture, known as a VIDEO AREA NETWORK, enables facilities to ingest, route, store, share and distribute digital media-comprised of audio, video, and any type of related data. Omneon Video Networks, headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., is privately held and funded by prominent venture capital firms. Omneon's web site is www.Omneon.com.

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