IO announced three additions to its sales team, adding former VP of major accounts for F5 Networks, Peter McNamara as SVP of global enterprise sales, Microsoft global business manager veteran Greg Widerski as senior director of enterprise sales and Bruce Huggins, previously from Dell's Software Solutions team, as senior manager of enterprise sales.

These executive appointments follow an eventful quarter for IO, which included Goldman Sachs’ adoption of IO Data Center 2.0 technology, award of the Underwriters Laboratories’ first ever safety certification for IO's IO.Anywhere products and a $90m funding round.

"IO continues to attract and hire highly competent executives who bring a strong set of experiences and skills from companies famous for implementing innovative product strategies," says Jim Kleeman, executive VP of global sales at IO.

New IO sales execs in detail
McNamara has more than 16 years of experience building enterprise hardware, software and service sales, and will be responsible for the enterprise sales operation for IO. While at F5, he managed the company's largest accounts, building and driving enterprise software.

McNamara brings more than a decade of senior-level sales and management experience to IO, including leading direct field sales organizations at Incipient Software, Symantec, Veritas Software and EMC.

With more than 15 years of enterprise sales experience, Widerski is based in Chicago and will focus on global account management and Data Center 2.0 adoption within Global 2000 accounts. Prior to joining IO, Widerski served as the global business manager for Microsoft's cloud infrastructure business, where he managed one of the company's largest customers and partners.

Prior to Microsoft, he served as the CTO and VP of technology for Taylor Nelson Sofres, where he drove an IT automation and data center consolidation initiative.

Based in Atlanta, Huggins comes to IO with more than 30 years of enterprise sales experience in the IT industry, specializing in software sales for a significant portion of his career. At IO, Huggins will focus on enterprise sales for global 2000 customers in the financial, healthcare and commercial markets.

Prior to joining IO, Huggins served as Dell's Virtual integrated system enterprise cloud software solutions specialist. He brings strong expertise in selling integrated solutions that help customers solve challenges associated with managing their data infrastructure needs.