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  • Brandon Abbey
    CEO
    Brandon Abbey brings more than eighteen years of telecommunications experience to his position as founder and CEO of Burstorm. He held both direct and Senior Management Sales roles at AT&T, Qwest, XO and Savvis. He was also an initial investor and Vice President of Sales at Fortune Data Center, a state-of-the art data center facility located in the heart of Silicon Valley. During his career he has worked with some of the largest technology companies implementing both their national and multi-national deployments from complex contract negotiations through installation and management. As CEO, he is responsible for developing the overall corporate vision and strategy, as well as the company’s operations. Throughout the company's exponential growth, Brandon has continued his direct involvement in Burstorm's strategic development as well as interfacing directly with clients and partners

  • Edward Wustenhoff
    CTO and Head of Product Development
    As CTO and head of development Edward is responsible for all internal and external technology aspects of Burstorm. He brings over twenty years of IT management, technology and services experience to the team. Prior to joining Burstorm, he worked at Applied Materials, Sun Microsystems, Netflix and Complete Genomics.

    While at Sun, in the Advanced Internet Practice, he helped ISP's and other customers design, deploy and manage large scale compute infrastructures. Long before ITIL became an industry standard, Edward published articles on how to use SLA's in the data center and manage them through automation. As Chief IT consultant, he developed and published the Operations Management Capability Framework and Model for the professional services organization.

    At Applied Materials, Netflix and Complete Genomics, he developed a broad set of experience around IT operations management and large scale infrastructure design. As Director of IT at Complete Genomics, he was responsible for the HPC infrastructure design and management. There he drove the selection process of Data Center hosting offerings ranging from Cloud Computing to building in-house solutions.

  • Lori Bedford
    Chief Sales & Marketing Officer
    As Chief Sales & Marketing Officer Lori brings to Burstorm more than 20 years of sales, marketing and channel experience in network, data center, compute and storage cloud services. Lori is responsible for executing Burstorm’s go-to market strategies and for leading the company's direct and indirect sales channels. Lori is also responsible for developing and managing the company’s marketing and partner programs. Lori is an accomplished and recognized sales and business development executive with a solid track record of creating and executing sales plans and inspiring teams to excellence. Lori joined Burstorm following an 8-year career with Sprint where she led sales teams supporting Sprint's largest enterprise customers. Prior to Sprint, Lori served as Executive Director at XO Communications where she was tasked with building and leading a new Enterprise field sales organization focused on selling web hosting and network services. Lori has also held VP and management positions at Winstar and AT&T.

    Lori graduated from UC Davis with a Bachelor’s degree in International Relations and Economics.

  • Jeffrey Williams
    CFO
    Jeffrey brings more than two decades of solving complex business problems and delivering simple solutions to the Burstorm team. During this time he has successfully guided cross-functional projects at multiple publicly and privately held companies ranging from early stage start-up to large multi-nationals. Prior to starting The Alchemy Team, LLC in 2003, Jeff was Vice President of Finance Operations and Corporate Controller at Intuit Inc. Previous to Intuit, Jeff held the positions of Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer at Edgewood Creek, Incorporated, Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer at Reasoning, Incorporated, Director of Finance at Remedy Corporation, Corporate Controller at The Failure group, Inc., various executive level finance and operations positions with Apple Computer, Inc. and was a Senior Manager with KPMG. Jeff holds a B.S. degree in industrial design from San Jose State University and an M.B.A. degree from Santa Clara University. He is a licensed CPA in California and a member of Financial Executives International.

  • Erikas Napjus
    Strategic Advisor
    As Strategic Advisor and Active Consultant Erikas Napjus brings a great set of experience to Burstorm. Erikas has almost 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and having built, developed, and led organizations focused on infrastructure architecture, design, negotiation, acquisition, and implementation on a global basis. He has worked extensively in senior management roles at both Google and Yahoo!, and was also an early developer of Internet technologies at Carnegie Mellon University Computing Services. Prior to his work building Google’s data center and telecommunications infrastructure, Mr. Napjus was responsible for all of Yahoo!’s infrastructure operations including teams in ten countries across five continents. "