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Storage company Sepaton Inc. has promoted Mike Thompson to the roles of president and CEO, replacing Mike Worhach who will stay on as vice chairman of the board of directors.
Thompson is known in the area as the former president and CEO of Egenera Corp. He joined Marlborough-based Sepaton in July 2010 as executive vice president of worldwide sales and marketing.
Before joining Egenera, Thompson was senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing and a member of the board of directors at Stratus Technologies. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Southern Connecticut University.
Sepaton sells disk-less data protection appliances that enable backup, restore, deduplication, replication and disaster recovery. In September. 2010, the company announced plans to grow its presence in central Europe with a new sales operation based in Frankfurt, Germany, covering Germany, Austria and Switzerland, naming former Sun Microsystems Inc. executive Rolf Lange as sales director for central Europe.
Founded in 2001, venture-backed Sepaton last raised $15.5 million in a Series F round of funding that brought the total equity backing in the company to more than $82 million. Backers have included California-based Menlo Ventures, Virginia’s Valhalla Partners, Israel-based Jerusalem Venture Partners and Boston-based HarbourVest Partners.
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