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This Life - Ron Macleod
Editor
Philip Alsop
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Where do you live and why? has completely
Editorial Board (SNIA EUROPE VOLUNTEERS) A
When I took a job at Control Data in reinvented
Frank Bunn, Aad Dekkers, Stefan Ehmann,
Michael Giesselbach, Bjarne Madsen, 1981 I moved to Prestwood, a get-away- itself from its
Kay Mushens, Matthias Werner,
JUNE 2009
from-it-all village not far from High colonial past.
Account Manager
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What were
Marketing Manager
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Which IT companies have you worked the last books
Maria-Christina Dahmen
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at and how long for? you bought?
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I’ve been in storage my entire career
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Brilliant
Production Manager
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and, often as a result of acquisitions, Excel 2007, The Book of Animal Ignorance
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have found myself working at Dot Hill, from the QI team, and Frank Rumbauskas
Design Manager
Chaparral, Vixel, AMCC, Mylex, UltraStor, Jr’s Never Cold Call Again.
Mitchell Gaynor
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DTC, Control Data. And there are more...
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What do you think are your greatest
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What is your life philosophy? strengths in the workplace?
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A simple one: work hard and enjoy
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Honesty and openness, often
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the little downtime available. confused with directness, is important to
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me and this boils down to the trust and
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Who has had the most influence on respect I try to instil in people.
Directors
your career to date?
Bill Dunlop Uprichard
Jan Smoothy A My first ever sales manager who
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Favourite sport and team/player?
Stephen Whitehurst
taught me the TFC rule which I now apply
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Rugby Union any day. Chris Paterson;
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Hannay House, 39 Clarendon Road,
Watford, Herts, WD17 1JA. UK Confidence. His team would have walked kicker in the world, not just Scotland.
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through fire for him and he was the
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catalyst for helping me move out of
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What are your extravagances?
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What are your current projects?
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extravagances to a minimum, but I do continue 3ware’s phenomenal growth in
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Where in the world would you most
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like to visit, and why? Ron Macleod is sales director EMEA at
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India. I’d like to see for myself how it AMCC/3ware
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