DataSpan Announces Tonya Lowe as Vice President of Business Development & Sales Operations

DALLAS, Sept. 14, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- DataSpan announces today that Tonya Lowe is joining DataSpan as Vice President of Business Development & Sales Operations, effective today. In her new role, Tonya is responsible for leveraging new partnerships, identifying business opportunities and building a foundation to scale the sales organization as DataSpan expands its commercial footprint and delivers upon its corporate vision.

"Tonya brings to our organization her expert knowledge of sales, sales operations and finance, making her a critical addition to DataSpan. We're thrilled for her to join our leadership team," said Nancy Shemwell, chief operating officer, DataSpan. "Now almost a year into our acquisition of DataSpan, we are investing in our business development function with the goal of developing long-term, market-leading partnerships. We're building a top-notch leadership team and ultimately ushering DataSpan into its next era of success."

Tonya is a veteran executive with more than 25 years of management experience across high technology companies including Nortel Networks Inc., Sensus, and Extreme Networks. Previously, Tonya served as Vice President of Sales Operations & Strategy for Nortel, Vice President of Finance for Sensus, Inc., and most recently, Sales Operations for Extreme Networks.

DataSpan previously announced a sharpened corporate focus expanding current portfolio of products and services toward a robust Data Lifecycle Management offering, meeting the needs of today's businesses as they manage an unprecedented and explosive growth in data. Today's appointment represents one of several significant hires in the past few months. This appointment is just the beginning of significant staff increases for DataSpan.

About DataSpan

DataSpan is a Dallas-based leading provider of Data Lifecycle Management solutions, guiding its 4,000 worldwide customers to the best solutions to fit their data needs at all stages of data management.  Since 1974, DataSpan has been a trusted partner for more than half of the Fortune 1000 offering tailored solutions for data center infrastructure and services; storage management; and retail mobility, wireless and based asset management. The company embraces innovation, relies upon proven technology, top-tier technical partners and provides a full range of solutions to optimize every data infrastructure. For more information, visit www.dataspan.com. 

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