Former Swire Oilfield Services executive Kyle Evans has joined rapidly expanding Perth-based technology start-up Tape Ark as Director of Sales.
Kyle Evans – Tape Ark, Sales Director
Mr Evans has more than 15 year’s sales and commercial management experience in resources, energy and Information Technology sectors, has previously held senior roles with market leaders including Swire Oilfield Services, NearMap, GeoImage and Fugro.
He will lead and expand the business development team to drive Tape Ark’s growth through the engagement of corporate clients, government organisations and key vendors within the technology sector.
Tape Ark Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Guy Holmes, said Mr Evans appointment to this newly created executive role is paramount to the successful development and management of Tape Ark’s new clients as they come on board.
I’m excited to entrust him in this key role and am confident that his expertise in stakeholder engagement that will prove critical to taking the organisation to the next level.
Mr Holmes said that since Tape Ark’s launch earlier this year the company has gone from strength-to-strength receiving significant enquiries from a diverse range of sectors including mining, telecommunications, media and finance.
“Tape Ark is helping customers who have become increasingly frustrated with paying offsite data storage costs whilst maintaining their legacy backup infrastructure and seeing little value on their investment.
Tape Ark provides a means to move historic corporate data from archive tape media to the cloud.