Thorsten Schäfer, born in 1979, studied business informatics at the Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University. He is a very experienced sales manager with more than 15 years of experience in the computer software industry, who is familiar with Hyper Converged (HCI), Edge Compuing, Software Defined Storage (SDS), Storage Area Network (SAN), VMware, Storage and VDI. Strong sales professional as well as very strong technical background: as the first German DCME – but also in the areas of business development, consulting, engineering, channel development & management. He gained his experience at companies such as DataCore Software, StorMagic and Scale Computing.