Mike Denzel

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Mr. Mike Denzel is a Principal at McKenna Management LLC.
Prior to joining McKenna Ventures Management, he led a team of world-class marketing professionals at Quantum Corporation, the world leader in the ultra-competitive desktop hard disk drive market.
At Quantum, he was responsible for P&L for the OEM business.
In this role, he was responsible for customer satisfaction at Apple, Acer, Compaq, Dell, eMachines, Gateway, HP, IBM and NEC, as well as other leading PC manufacturers.
During his leadership, unit shipments almost doubled to a 20 million unit annual rate representing $1.8 billion, expanding Quantum’s dominant position in the desktop PC OEM business.
His team achieved unprecedented levels of customer satisfaction combined with consistent profitability.
Prior to Quantum, Mr. Denzel worked at Maxtor Corporation in a series of jobs of increasing accountability in the Sales and Marketing areas, at a time when Maxtor was the world’s largest hard disk drive company.
Early in his career, he worked at Varian Associates, excelling in Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations and Marketing in a rotation program for fast track employees.
A native of Western New York, Mr. Denzel earned his BS in Industrial Engineering at the State University of New York at Buffalo and his MBA at Santa Clara University.

Former positions of Mike Denzel

Companies	Position	End
BroadWare Technologies, Inc. BroadWare Technologies, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services BroadWare Technologies, Inc. enables distribution, viewing, storage and management of real-time video in a networked environment. Its Media Server provides a highly scalable server platform for deploying distributed video surveillance systems for defense, homeland security, transportation and law enforcement applications. Unlike DVR-based solutions, such as those from NICE Systems and Verint Systems, the BroadWare Platform is an open architecture platform that allows systems integrators to easily integrate their choice of third-party technologies, including access control or alarm systems, custom user interfaces and video analytics, while designing systems that evolve and scale. The company's clients include ARINC, Boeing, Henry Bros., Honeywell, Intergraph, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon and Siemens. End users include airports and seaports, transportation systems, many Federal agencies and military branches. The company is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA	Director/Board Member	2007-08-19
Varian Associates, Inc. /Electron Devices Business/	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
Maxtor Corp. Maxtor Corp. Computer PeripheralsElectronic Technology Maxtor Corp. makes hard disk drives used in PCs used by manufacturers such as Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Fujitsu Siemens and IBM. Its drives are also used in servers and consumer electronics. The company is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
QUANTUM CORPORATION	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
McKenna Management LLC McKenna Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Founded by Regis McKenna in 1998, McKenna Management LLC is a venture capital firm located in Sunnyvale, California.	Chief Investment Officer	2011-10-12

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Training of Mike Denzel

Santa Clara University	Masters Business Admin
State University of New York at Buffalo	Undergraduate Degree

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