Primary Job Title CEO & Chairman Primary Organization MayaData
Location San Jose, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Male
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Evan has help found and grow a number of eventually important infrastructure software companies. He joined MayaData as an investor and Chairman in early 2017 and as CEO in July of 2017. Evan Powell was previously co-founder and CEO of StackStorm (BRCD), an operations automation software provider. Before that Evan was founding Chief Executive
Officer of Nexenta Systems, and helped create the software defined storage market and achieved over $350 million of annual partner sales. Before Nexenta Evan was founding CEO of Clarus Systems (RVBD) which was a leading provider of IP Communications test and management software.
Evan previously co-founded Clarus Systems, the leading provider of enterprise software for the management of next generation, real time communications. Clarus customers and partners include IBM, HP, JPMC, EDS, Bank of America and Cisco. The company was purchased by OPNET (OPNT) and is now a division of Riverbed (RVBD).




