Pure Storage Appoints Mallun Yen to Board of Directors
Current Founder of Operator Collective and Former SaaStr and Cisco Executive Brings Board to Eleven Members
Mountain View, Calif. – September 14, 2021 — Pure Storage® (NYSE: PSTG), the IT pioneer that delivers storage as-a-service in a multi-cloud world, today announced the appointment of Mallun Yen to its Board of Directors. Yen will join as a new member of the Board and the nominating and corporate governance committee.
“Drawing from her deep-rooted SaaS and IP experience, and her enviable career leading transformative organisations, Mallun’s voice will be an asset to our team and board,” said Charles Giancarlo, Chairman and CEO, Pure Storage. “This is an exciting time at Pure and we are thrilled to welcome her to the team. Pure is in a great innovation cycle with our portfolio and our execution has never been stronger.”
Yen currently serves as founder and CEO at Operator Collective, where she convenes the leading operators, founders, and investors in enterprise technology to accelerate the next generation of innovation. Prior to Operator Collective, she was the COO at SaaStr, the world's largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs as well as Deputy General Counsel and VP of Worldwide Intellectual Property at Cisco. Yen is also a board director for DataGrail and was previously a board director for KQED, the public media organisation.
“From its founding Pure has been recognized as an industry leader because it has focused its innovation on what’s right for customers. I have always believed in disrupting industry conventions and I know this is part of Pure’s ethos,” said Yen. “I look forward to working with Charlie and the rest of Pure’s talented team as the company continues its growth trajectory.”
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Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) gives technologists their time back. Pure delivers a modern data experience that empowers organisations to run their operations as a true, automated, storage as-a-service model seamlessly across multiple clouds. Pure helps customers put data to use while reducing the complexity and expense of managing the infrastructure behind it. And with a certified customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure's ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world. For more information, visit www.purestorage.com.
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