Victor Walker, Chief Executive Officer

Victor Walker brings to RELDATA more than two decades of executive leadership experience in the storage and systems technology sectors, having served in the positions of CEO and COO for venture and private equity backed start-ups and in vice president/general manager positions for Global 500 companies in the U.S. and Europe.

Prior to joining RELDATA in October 2010, Walker served as the COO of ClusterStor a leading innovator in high performance storage file systems (acquired by Xyratex), and as vice president of Sun Microsystems’ Storage Systems Product Group where he led the team responsible for the development and initial revenue release of Sun’s 7000 Unified Storage product line (now Oracle’s Sun ZFS storage line) and Sun’s open storage products line. Walker was also responsible for Sun’s $1 billion disk and related-storage software businesses.

Previously, he served as vice president/general manager of the Storage Group at Groupe Bull in France; vice president of operations at Storage Technology; CEO for Creekpath Systems (acquired by Opsware); and CEO of Tantia Technologies, both storage software companies.

Victor served as an Officer in the U.S. Army Reserve, Corps of Engineers for more than 23 years. He currently serves on the Advisory Board for Colorado State University’s School of Mechanical Engineering and has been recognized as a Distinguished Graduate. Walker holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Colorado State University.

Paul Stukus, CFO and VP Finance/Operations

As Chief Financial Officer, Paul Stukus is responsible for overseeing all aspects of RELDATA’s operations. Paul has more than 16 years experience managing operations, accounting and finance and human resources for venture-backed companies. The majority of his experience comes from the software and manufacturing technology industry.

Prior to joining Reldata, Mr. Stukus served as director of accounting at a Virginia-based investment company. He has also served in senior/executive-level management positions at Cyveillance, Inc. (acquired by QinetiQ N.A.), Previstar Inc. and Digene Corp. (now Qiagen), where Paul was instrumental in preparing the company’s IPO listing.

Mr. Stukus earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and is a certified public accountant in the state of Maryland.

Kirill Malkin, CTO & Co-Founder

Kirill Malkin has more than 15 years of experience in the computer systems, data storage, networking technologies and enterprise software development. Mr. Malkin is the chief architect of RELDATA’s unified storage virtualization platform. He was founder and CEO of Reliable Data Technology, Inc from 1993-2005, when it was acquired by RELDATA Inc.

Previously, Mr. Malkin held a key software development position at Cantor Fitzgerald and led a data storage consulting company.