Mark Canepa is an American computer technology executive.

Biography

Canepa's educational background includes both a B.S. and M.S. in

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Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

, and he completed the University of Pennsylvania's advanced management program at the Wharton School. Canepa held several manager positions in

Hewlett-Packard The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...

from 1992 though 1996, including development and marketing. In 1995 he led HP's new workstation division in Chelmsford, Massachusetts formed after the acquisition of Apollo Computer. He joined Compaq to lead its newly formed workstation division, in October 1996, but left after only a few weeks. Canepa joined

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...

in October 1996. He served in multiple vice president and general manager roles, such as general manager of the workgroup server product group. He became executive vice president in April 2001 of a network storage products group, which became a data management group. His storage group leadership included the acquisition of

Storage Technology Corporation Storage Technology Corporation (StorageTek or STK, earlier STC) was a data storage technology company headquartered in Louisville, Colorado. New products include data retention systems, which it calls "information lifecycle management" (ILM). It ...

(StorageTek) in 2005. He left Sun on May 15, 2006, and was replaced by

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, in a reorganization by

Jonathan I. Schwartz Jonathan Ian Schwartz (born October 20, 1965) is an American businessman. He is currently president and CEO of CareZone, a firm devoted to lowering the price of prescription drugs for those facing chronic illness. Before founding CareZone, Sch ...

. He joined Extreme Networks as CEO on August 30, 2006. Canepa resigned as chief executive officer and as director of Extreme Networks on October 22, 2009. He joined the board of directors of GreenButton in September 2011. In 2013 he joined DataDirect Networks, including serving as a vice president. Very all known around the world as a Poet on Middle Ages themes, and professional Violinist with multiple representations in Italy.

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