Paul Durzan
Paul Durzan
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Senior Vice President of Product Management
California, United States
Executive Profile
Multi-faceted and highly accomplished executive with a proven track record of delivering results at the strategic and tactical levels. Owns an outstanding record of successfully bringing new products and solutions to market and driving paradigm shifts within companies and businesses. Possesses the ability to create a vision and drive alignment to that vision.
Notable Contributions
- Driving HPE’s software strategy for hyperconverged, for future devops solutions, and for HP OneView.
- Developed and evangelized new visions for HP and HPE: The Power of One for HPE BladeSystem/HPE OneView and HPE’s Composable Infrastructure.
- Expanded Cisco into a new market adjacency by driving Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS) from $0 to a ten figure run rate in 3 years. Expanded roadmap from 2 products to 20+ products.
- Created the Unified Workspace and BYOD Smart Solution from grounds up across multiple Cisco product units. Successfully launched Cisco’s BYOD Smart Solution by leading sales, engineering, services, marketing, partners, and operations tracks.
- Brought to market a key breakthrough technology for Sun Microsystems, the Sun Fire Cool Thread servers. Brought the product line from $0 to nine figure run rate.
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Core Leadership Competencies
Product development ♦ market development ♦ strategic thinking and planning ♦ portfolio analysis ♦ press and analyst interaction ♦ product evangelism ♦ building and directing teams ♦ partner engagement ♦ product management ♦ product marketing ♦ sales ♦ finance ♦ bringing breakthrough products to market
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