“We are extremely pleased to welcome Dan to Saama’s board,” said Suresh Katta, Saama CEO. “Dan’s leadership and knowledge in IT, and his deep business and financial acumen are nearly unparalleled. As our company continues to grow more than 30 percent YoY, Saama will benefit from Dan’s deep expertise in global business.”
“Saama is applying more than 17 years of experience as a complex data and analytics specialist to new problems that can now be solved by mining ‘big data’ for insight,” said Dan Fairfax. “The Saama solution framework decreases the time from hypothesis to actionable insight by an order of magnitude. Recognized as an early leader in this dynamic space, Saama is engaged with many of the world’s largest companies to helping them urgently address the data science challenges they face.”
Dan Fairfax was named chief financial officer of Brocade in June 2011, after serving as Brocade’s vice president of Worldwide Service and Support. He joined Brocade via the Company’s acquisition of Foundry Networks, where he also served as CFO. Prior to joining Foundry Networks, Dan served as the CFO of a number of technology companies, including GoRemote Internet Communications, Ironside Technologies, Inc., ACTA Technology, and NeoVista Software. Prior to those appointments, he held a variety of senior financial management and operations positions at Siemens and Spectra-Physics.