Sr. V.P., Marketing

Raj Das, Senior V.P. of Marketing at Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, brings nearly two decades of experience leading product planning and marketing organizations in high technology firms. He leads an organization of integrated marketing functions including product planning and strategy, positioning, promotion and fulfillment.

Mr. Das has an extensive background in product marketing. Previously, he was vice president, Storage, at SGI. Before that, he held two senior-level product marketing positions at Brocade Communications: he was vice president, Product Marketing, at McDATA and played a leading role in Brocade's acquisition of McDATA; and he directed Product Marketing at Brocade, leading the firm's entire product portfolio. At Sun Microsystems, Mr. Das led product marketing groups in network storage and enterprise systems. Before joining Sun, he held management positions at Tandem Computers and Amdahl Corporation.

Mr. Das earned his BA degree in computer science from Hampshire College, his MS in computer science from the University of Massachusetts and an MBA in high technology marketing from Santa Clara University.