STEC Names Raymond Solone Vice President, Corporate Marketing & Communications

SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 25, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- STEC, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEC), a leading global provider of solid-state drive (SSD) technologies and products, today announced that it has named Raymond Solone as its Vice President, Corporate Marketing & Communications. Mr. Solone will report directly to Mr. Manouch Moshayedi, Chairman and CEO of STEC, and is responsible for providing executive leadership and management of the company's marketing initiatives including: corporate branding, market development, partner/channel engagement, and technology and product marketing communications.

Mr. Solone brings more than 25 years of technology marketing experience to STEC and is chartered with driving brand awareness and customer preference, including building segment-focused demand generation strategies for the company's industry leading products and solutions.

"Raymond is ideally qualified to help us bring the STEC brand to the forefront of our prospects' and customers' minds so that we are recognized as a true leader in delivering solid-state storage and server solutions to the rapidly growing SSD market," said Mr. Moshayedi. "His direct experience in memory technologies and addressing the key influencers and decision makers in the enterprise space will enable us to take our marketing efforts to a new level of integration to help accelerate our sales cycle."

Most recently, Mr. Solone directed the corporate marketing function at Numonyx B.V., the flash memory spin-off from Intel Corporation and STMicroelectronics. In that role, he helped bring the company's products to market, grew its brand recognition among the design engineering community, and developed closed-loop marketing programs to accelerate the design of the company's products in wireless and embedded computing markets.

"I am excited about building STEC's brand and communicating the true value that our technologies and products bring to customers in the fast-growing SSD market," said Mr. Solone. "The technology know-how, performance strength, and breadth of product lines clearly sets STEC apart from our competitors and my job will be to make STEC's innovation and execution well-known to our prospects and customers."