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Charles Giancarlo is a highly regarded technology veteran with four decades of experience in the technology industry. As CEO of Everpure and senior executive at Cisco Systems for 15 years, Giancarlo has been named CEO Monthly Magazine’s “CEO of the Year” and ranked among Network World’s “Top 50 Most Powerful People in Networking” for four consecutive years.

In addition, under Charles’ leadership, for five years in a row, Everpure has been named as a Fortune Magazine’s Best Workplace in multiple categories, named a Most Loved Workplace by Newsweek, and recognized as one of the top 100 Bay Area Corporate Philanthropists by the San Francisco Business Times.

Giancarlo is currently CEO of Everpure, Inc. Everpure is the inventor and leader in enterprise flash storage systems. One of the fastest-growing enterprise IT companies in history, Everpure enables customers to quickly adopt next-generation technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, to help maximise the value of their data for competitive advantage. Everpure today can satisfy all of an enterprise’s storage needs, from the most cost-sensitive to the highest performance, with a single, consolidated flash operating environment and a cloud operating model that requires one-tenth the space, power, cooling, and labor of traditional magnetic disk-based systems.

Prior to Everpure, from 2008 to 2013, Giancarlo was a Managing Director of Silver Lake Partners, the world’s largest technology investor where he was also head of value creation, managing a group of executives that work to improve the operations of the firm’s portfolio companies and management teams. At Silver Lake, Giancarlo co-led Silver Lake’s acquisition of Skype from eBay and operated as Executive Chairman of Skype during its revival and eventual sale to Microsoft. He also operated as interim CEO of Avaya.

Prior to Silver Lake, Giancarlo was second in command at Cisco Systems. Giancarlo came to Cisco in 1994 when it acquired Kalpana Networks, where Giancarlo was Chief Product Officer. Kalpana invented and marketed the world’s first Ethernet switch. Giancarlo held a succession of positions at Cisco Systems from 1994 to 2007. His last position was Executive Vice President, CTO, and Chief Development Officer of Cisco. In this role, he led all of Cisco’s product development and product management activities, including all product and market strategy. He led over 30,000 employees, including over 24,000 development engineers, representing more than half of all Cisco employees and almost $40 billion of product sales.

During his career at Cisco, Giancarlo played a leadership role in all of the company’s major customer segments, including the commercial, service provider, enterprise, and consumer businesses, and in the development and execution of Cisco’s business strategies for these important customer segments. Giancarlo was also responsible for the creation of many of Cisco’s product lines and businesses, including Ethernet switching, security, unified communications, wireless networking, digital video and TelePresence, consumer networking, and Cisco’s initial channel strategy. Additionally, Giancarlo established a process for the consistent development of new businesses within Cisco.

Giancarlo is best known for his groundbreaking work in developing new technologies and markets. He was the driving force behind the creation and success of many common technologies in use today, including Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switching, Ethernet switching, network security, load balancing, Wi-Fi, voice over IP and IP telephony, network access control, and TelePresence. With TelePresence as a typical example, Giancarlo conceptualized the product, formed the engineering and marketing teams, and led the development of the product and go-to-market strategy behind its successful growth.

Giancarlo holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Brown University where he served as a trustee, an MSEE from the University of California at Berkeley where he serves on the board of advisors, and a master’s in business administration from Harvard Business School. He has served on the boards of Accenture, Netflix, ServiceNow, and Avaya, and currently serves on the boards of Arista, Zscaler, and several startup companies.

John Colgrove, or Coz, is Founder and Chief Visionary Officer at Everpure, responsible for developing and executing Everpure’s global technical strategy.

Coz co-founded Everpure in 2009. Prior to this, he was the Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures. It was there he observed the growing acceptance of solid-state storage by enterprises.

Coz was one of the founding engineers at Veritas Software, which merged with Symantec in 2005, where his 20-year career culminated as Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for the Data Centre Management Group.

He was the primary architect for the hugely successful Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS) and later served in various other engineering, management, and consultative roles.

Prior to Veritas, Coz worked for Amdahl Corporation where he was a key contributor to the development of the UTS mainframe UNIX operating system kernel.

He holds over 300 patents in the areas of computer system and reliable data storage design. Coz has a Bachelor of Science degree from Rutgers University.

Lynn Lucas joined Everpure in December 2023 as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), leading the global marketing organisation. She is responsible for creative strategies that amplify brand awareness, drive demand for the company’s technology portfolio and services, and deliver compelling customer experiences.

Lynn brings 25 years of go-to-market expertise for B2B organisations across hybrid cloud, software and infrastructure markets.

Prior to Pure, Lynn was CMO at Cohesity where she built the global marketing function and was a key leader driving scale in a hyper growth environment, while navigating a successful shift to SaaS. While there, she was selected as one of the Fearless 50 customer-led marketers of 2023. An advocate for diversity in tech, she co-led the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Council and was executive sponsor for the Women’s ERG.

Lynn’s previous roles included CMO at Veritas and Good Technology, and executive leadership positions at Cisco Systems, culminating as Vice President, Collaboration Solutions for the $5B unified communications, telepresence and Webex portfolio.

Lynn holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Stephanie Richardson leads the Everpure global product marketing organisation, shaping go-to-market strategy and platform storytelling. She brings 20+ years of B2B marketing leadership across enterprise software, data, and infrastructure.

Paddy Fitzpatrick is Regional Vice President and General Manager for the UK & Ireland, responsible for leading the Pure Storage organisation in the region.

Paddy joined Pure in June 2025, bringing more than 30 years of leadership experience in the IT industry, having built and led high-performing teams across the UK, EMEA and beyond. He is an advocate of Pure Storage’s thought leadership and speaks at industry and community events. Paddy is an enthusiastic Executive Sponsor to key Partners and Customers and helps them to take advantage of the continuous innovation Pure Storage brings as a strategic data platform.

Prior to joining Pure, Paddy led the UK&I ISV business at AWS for five years. Paddy has also held senior roles at Fujitsu, HP, Unisys, and DXC Technology, with a consistent track record of driving results and developing talent.

Paddy is an amateur triathlete, a passionate football fan, and a dedicated community supporter having served 15 years as a school governor and also as Executive Sponsor for the Prince’s Trust.

Alex began his industry career after Bachelors and Masters Engineering degrees at Liverpool University, England. He started by writing flight/test software at British Aerospace, CAD 3D modelling software at Parametric Technology and the RDBMS engine at CA for Ingres before moving into infrastructure design and implementation. Alex moved into infrastructure design at Sun and VERITAS through a consulting partner with numerous assignments designing and implementing large scale UNIX and storage systems for global financial services customers. Alex then joined UBS Investment Bank to manage the storage and distributed computing infrastructure for the bank, as well as assessing innovative and emerging technology in Silicon Valley. From UBS he moved to Barclays to run the storage, database and data warehouse engineering divisions and spent 6 years there before joining the Pure Storage team in 2014 where he holds the role of CTO, International.

Alex splits his time between working with engineering on new product developments and Pure’s largest customers where he is engaged in HPC, AI, data warehousing and hybrid PaaS deployments at global scale across a range of industries.

Toby Broome leads the Field Solutions Architecture function for EMEA at Everpure, managing a team of 30+ specialist architects and principal technologists across the region. He has 25 years of experience in the data storage industry, including prior roles at EMC, and joined Everpure in 2018.

Lynn Lucas joined Everpure in December 2023 as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), leading the global marketing organisation. She is responsible for creative strategies that amplify brand awareness, drive demand for the company’s technology portfolio and services, and deliver compelling customer experiences.

Lynn brings 25 years of go-to-market expertise for B2B organisations across hybrid cloud, software and infrastructure markets.

Prior to Pure, Lynn was CMO at Cohesity where she built the global marketing function and was a key leader driving scale in a hyper growth environment, while navigating a successful shift to SaaS. While there, she was selected as one of the Fearless 50 customer-led marketers of 2023. An advocate for diversity in tech, she co-led the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Council and was executive sponsor for the Women’s ERG.

Lynn’s previous roles included CMO at Veritas and Good Technology, and executive leadership positions at Cisco Systems, culminating as Vice President, Collaboration Solutions for the $5B unified communications, telepresence and Webex portfolio.

Lynn holds a Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Chadd Kenney is Vice President of Product Management at Everpure, where he leads the global product organisation, driving the company-wide transformation from products to a platform with the Enterprise Data Cloud vision. He leads product strategy, execution, and growth, with responsibility across FlashArray, FlashBlade, Fusion, and Pure Storage Cloud, as well as pricing, monetization, and go-to-market strategy.

A founding member of Everpure, Chadd has been instrumental in shaping the company’s product vision, customer engagement model, and market strategy. He has held multiple leadership roles, including VP of Technology, VP of Product and Solutions, Chief Technology Officer, and Chief Flash Geek, and is known for combining deep technical expertise with clear, compelling storytelling.

He leads teams spanning product management, technical product specialists, pricing, sales tools, and business operations, translating customer needs into market-leading solutions, and serves as a company spokesperson with press, analysts, investors, and customers.

Prior to Everpure, Chadd held senior roles including Chief Operating Officer at Bluesky, VP of Product at Clumio, and leadership positions at EMC. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems and Accounting from San Francisco State University.

Chadd Kenney, CTO of the Americas at Everpure, is a senior technical advisor to engineering, product management, sales marketing and presales leadership. He joined Everpure in 2012 as a founding member of the technical sales staff, assisting in the development of the go-to-market strategy and creation of the sales force to disrupt the storage industry.

Previously, Chadd was the Field CTO and Divisional Systems Engineering Director at EMC Corporation. Chadd holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Information Systems and Accounting from San Francisco State University, College of Business.

Matt Bradford is a former sysadmin turned marketer. As a Technical Evangelist Director, he focuses on sharing Everpure offerings and benefits. Catch Matt on Pure360, where he shares tricks and capabilities to make your life easier.

Ashish Gupta is General Manager of the Everpure Data Management business unit. He is the former CEO and President of 1touch.io, where he helped shape an AI-driven approach to discovering, understanding, and securing sensitive data across cloud, on-premises, and mainframe environments.

EJ Cay leads Everpure's Strategic Accounts organisation for WWS EMEA, guiding the region's growth agenda through high-performing teams and customer-centric partnerships. With a focus on digital transformation, EJ helps organisations unlock the full potential of their data by delivering innovative, tailored solutions.

EJ partners closely with customers to identify and address critical pain points — including siloed data, slow retrieval performance, bottlenecks, and cost inefficiencies — and develops strategies that align technology investments with broader business goals. This approach consistently drives measurable outcomes in agility, efficiency, and value creation

Patrick Smith is the Field CTO for EMEA at Everpure, a position he has held since May 2018. As a senior technical advisor, he provides crucial input and leadership across engineering, product management, sales, marketing as well as presales. Prior to his time at Everpure, Patrick was Head of Core Engineering at Deutsche Bank with responsibility for Server and Storage engineering; which included product evaluation and selection, testing and certification, ownership of strategy and roadmaps and technology governance. He has also run global infrastructure engineering teams at Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs. In his spare time Patrick is a keen Parkrunner, enjoys listening to music, watching sport and taking surfing trips with his family.

Fred helps guide customer adoption of Pure technology and ensure that Pure’s product priorities match the requirements of customers across EMEA. Fred has a keen interest in emerging technologies and advises customers looking at adopting these to enable strategic initiatives in the ever-changing world of IT.

Fred was one of the founding members of Pure Storage EMEA. His work has included helping bring the FlashArray and FlashBlade products to the EMEA market, supporting strategic customers in multiple countries, enabling new use cases and acting as a bridge between customers and Pure Engineering.

While previously working at the company's headquarters in Mountain View, California in the Engineering division, Fred helped design new software features and built the Engineering Liaison practice. Prior to Pure Storage, Fred held multiple Systems Engineering positions at 3PAR and HP.