Tom Cook, Chief Executive Officer and President, is responsible for guiding the company’s strategy and vision. Cook has more than 20 years of experience leading growth stage technology companies. Prior to joining Permabit, Cook led and completed the sale of web application developer, Curl Corporation to a division of the Sumitomo Corporation. Prior to Curl, Cook was President and CEO of audio tool maker, Cakewalk Software (acquired by Roland Corporation), which he led from start-up to worldwide market leadership. He also served as a director of or advisor to more than a dozen companies and organizations.
Cook has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, and a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University.
A year ago, I wrote a two-part series on how lower cost, higher performance
on-premise storage and nearly free cloud-based storage were driving both
innovation and disruption in the storage industry. Applying Clayton
Christensen's theory of innovation and disruption to the storage industry,
my premise was that flashy startups, (e.g., Pure, Nimble, VMem, Tegile and
Tintri) that were first to introduce credible data reduction to flash arrays
were innovators but not disruptors in the space and would therefore
disappoint investors; storage incumbents (e.g., HDS, EMC and IBM) who added
data reduction would continue to survive; but the real disruptors would be
the cloud players (e.g., Amazon, Google and Microsoft). The combination of
struggling share prices, weak earnings reports, recent acquisitions, and
raging cloud revenue witnessed throughout 2015 and into 2016 conti... (more)
Tom Cook, Chief Executive Officer and President, is responsible for guiding the company’s strategy and vision. Cook has more than 20 years of experience leading growth stage technology companies. Prior to joining Permabit, Cook led and completed the sale of web application developer, Curl Corporation to a division of the Sumitomo Corporation. Prior to Curl, Cook was President and CEO of audio tool maker, Cakewalk Software (acquired by Roland Corporation), which he led from start-up to worldwide market leadership. He also served as a director of or advisor to more than a dozen companies and organizations.
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