Ian Masters

 VP Cloud & Strategic Alliances 

Ian is Vice President of Cloud & Strategic Alliances at Vision Solutions, and has been advising organisations on their requirements for business continuity, disaster recovery and backup for almost two decades. He has a wide background in the virtualisation, storage and high availability space, working across multiple platforms. More recently he has entered into the world of migration, covering data, server, virtualisation and Cloud.

For the past 4 years he has acted as Director Sales, Northern Europe, and prior to this he was UK Sales and Marketing Director at Double-Take Software, who were acquired by Vision Solutions in 2010. Ian studied at Bangor University, North Wales, and gained a BSC (Hons) in Marine Zoology.

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