Waterline Data, The Smart Data Catalog Company, today announced it has added 15-year tech veteran Kaycee Lai to its executive team. As President and COO, he will oversee field operations, marketing, strategy, and business development.

Lai comes to Waterline from data virtualization platform provider Primary Data, where he served as SVP of Products and Global Sales for four years. Prior to that, he held a variety of senior executive sales and business development roles at cloud provider VMware, virtual storage provider Virsto, and data virtualization solution provider Delphix. At Virsto, Lai was responsible for helping the company become a leading pioneer in software-defined-storage while executing on the go-to-market strategy that resulted in 500% sales growth prior to the company’s acquisition by VMWare. The Virsto product is now part of the vSAN product, the second largest Hyper-Converged solution in the market. Lai also held senior management roles at EMC and Microsoft.

“This is a very exciting time to welcome Kaycee to the team as we continue to experience tremendous industry recognition and customer traction among organizations that want to better track and dramatically increase the value of their data assets,” said Waterline Data CEO Alex Gorelik. “Kaycee has a long history of transforming cutting-edge product innovations into business and sales success, and he brings exactly the kind of experience, talent and commitment we need to take Waterline Data and its customers to the next level.”

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