Pirus Appoints VP of North American Sales

Pirus Networks has appointed Bill Maxwell as vice president of North American Sales.

Reporting directly to Pirus CEO, Rich Napolitano, Bill Maxwell will be responsible for increasing and establishing relationships with customers and distribution channels, including resellers and OEMs for all of North America. Mr. Maxwell formerly was vice president of Sales for IP storage networking provider Nishan Systems.

The company said this appointment represents the expansion of an aggressive sales program supporting the its Storage Utility Switch (PSX-1000) prodcut. According to Pirus, the PSX-1000 is a switch-based, carrier-class platform that supports the convergence of storage area network (SAN) and network attached storage (NAS) systems and supports both Fibre Channel and emerging IP block storage protocols and services.