Warren Mead is a well-experienced sales, cloud, channel, OEM, and strategic alliances professional. He has built great go-to-market teams and partner programs that drive pipeline and revenue for over 20 years. With his extensive background, he has led fast-growing companies to successful IPO and acquisitions, and driven strategic investment, OEM, cloud marketplace, and global reseller engagements with business development partners including Microsoft, AWS, IBM, Google, Cisco, HPE, and NetApp. Warren is currently the VP of Channel and Alliances at Qumulo, a leader in the cloud file storage market, where he leads its partner, cloud, and OEM business globally. Prior to joining Qumulo, he was the VP of Business Development and Channel at NS1, a cloud-native application traffic steering service, where he drove the engagement, integration, and investment with Cisco and its partner ecosystem. Before that, Warren was the VP of Channel and Alliances at Nasuni, where he built the partner program that grew the cloud storage company from zero to $65M in ARR and was Microsoft Azure ISV Partner of the Year.

Warren holds a BA in Communications from Marist College (Poughkeepsie, New York) and Leeds University (Leeds, England) where he was a member of the Rugby and Rowing teams. He studied at Xaverian Brothers High School. He held positions such as WW Azure Sales Leader at NetApp and was an Advisory Board Member at Sales Community and Advisor at Starburst.