George Symons is VP of Strategy for the Cloud, Infrastructure and Security practice at Persistent Systems. He came to Persistent through the acquisition of Sureline Systems, a supplier of cloud migration and disaster recovery software where he served as the COO. George has worked with both software and hardware vendors throughout his career and he has a proven track record of driving growth. He has held executive roles in product management, engineering, marketing, strategy and overall executive management in both small organizations and large public companies. In the past 20 years the organizations he has worked for have focused on enterprise IT solutions around infrastructure, storage, and security. Key roles include CTO for information management at EMC; CTO for Legato Systems; CEO roles at 3 startups in backup recovery, storage and hyperconverged systems; COO at Xiotech; CSO at Nexsan; as well as various product management and product marketing roles at Sun Microsystems.