Management Team

Nine Technology’s executive leadership team is made up of seasoned data storage professionals who have spent their entire careers developing, selling and supporting data storage, backup and recovery solutions to global enterprises, government agencies and service providers throughout the world.

Nine Technology was founded with software that has been actively under development for the past 3 years. The specification for this revolutionary software technology was based on the vision of offering new revolutionary architecture to meet the growing demand of online backup & recovery while eliminating the issues associated with other online backup technology and traditional tape based solutions.

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Gene Fay, President

Gene Fay is president of Nine Technology with responsibilities that span sales, marketing, business development and partner relationships.

Previously, Gene was the vice president of sales and business development for VKernel, a startup virtualization management vendor, where he grew sales 300%. Prior to joining VKernel, he was vice president of worldwide sales and global alliances for the security information and event management (SIEM) business unit of RSA, the security division of EMC. channel chief 2011He joined EMC after the company acquired Network Intelligence where he was vice president of business development. In that position, Gene provided the sales leadership and grew the EMC SIEM business by over 40 percent in 2007 after the acquisition. Gene spent more than seven years with EMC and also held other management positions with Avid Sports (founder), and Avid Technology.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Northeastern University. Gene also graduated magna cum laude with a High Tech MBA degree from Northeastern as class president.

In February 2011, Gene was named to Everything Channel's CRN's Channel Chiefs list for his commitment to the managed services market.

Gene talks about what Nine Technology will do differently in this video.

Tom Trometer, Chief Financial Officer

Tom is responsible for the financial management of Nine Technology's operations. In this role he provides oversight for the financial management of the business, directs the corporate treasury function, establishes the protocols and standards for internal reporting and assists in building the business model and plan for the company. He has over 25 years experience, and was previously VP Finance and CFO of CableSoft, where he was instrumental in raising capital and selling the company to Motorola. Trometer was also VP of Finance and Treasurer of Opta Food Ingredients, a public company, and was instrumental in raising over $40M in equity funds. He was also a manager in the Middle Market and Growing Companies Division of Price Waterhouse Coopers.

He is a CPA and is a graduate of Canisius College.

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