ATLANTA – Asankya, a cloud acceleration company, has appointed cloud industry veteran Patrick Harr as chairman of its board.

Harr recently founded the Cloud Strategy Group where he works with vendors on go-to-market strategies in the Cloud as well as with enterprises on adoption of cloud-based technologies.

Harr helped pioneer the emerging cloud storage market as founder and CEO of Nirvanix, where he developed the business plan, raised $18 million in venture funding, launched the company’s worldwide storage delivery network and secured more than 600 customers including GE, the Planet and NASA among others.

Prior to Nirvanix, Harr served as entrepreneur-in-residence at Enterprise Partners Venture Capital focusing on content, storage, and media services investments.

Other leadership roles include president and CEO of Preventsys Inc., a security risk and compliance management firm that was acquired by McAfee in 2006, and VP of the $300 million Enterprise Products Group at McData Corp., an enterprise storage networking company.

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