ABOUT US

LANCE HUKILL

PRESIDENT

Prior to launching StorExcel, Mr. Hukill held a variety of roles at Quantum Corporation having joined (via ADIC) in 1999.  These roles included Vice President of Worldwide Software Sales, Advanced Solutions Business Unit management, Federal Sales Director, and Account Executive. Mr. Hukill's responsibilities ranged from Sales Management to Alliance/Channel Development supporting Vertical and Geographic driven go-to-market strategies and sales execution.
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Prior to ADIC, Mr. Hukill spent two years at SANZ (formerly Vangard Technology) with roles as Account Executive and System Engineering Management.

Additionally, Mr. Hukill spent 6 years with Harris Corporation and Lockheed Martin in a variety of Engineering Management and Software Development positions supporting Geospatial programs within the National Intelligence Community.

KURT CLAWSON

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Mr. Clawson has been an active member of the Media and Entertainment community for over 30 years.  Starting his career as an editor on episodic and long form television in Hollywood, Mr. Clawson joined Philips Broadcast Television Systems, and later The Grass Valley Group, where he designed and developed fast-turn news editing solutions, asset management systems, and integration frameworks for the broadcast and production environments. 
 
Mr. Clawson moved from Grass Valley in 2005 to join Technicolor and led the Digital Asset Management and Workflow Automation initiatives deemed critical to Technicolor’s digital transition efforts.  Mr. Clawson’s innovative contributions to the Technicolor Product and Patent Portfolio earned him a founding Fellow role in Technicolor's sponsored Media & Entertainment Technology Fellowship where Mr. Clawson engaged with industry technologists and shared innovations back to the community.
 
At StorExcel, Mr. Clawson leads our Media & Entertainment technology initiatives including workflow design, development, and integration as well as corresponding technology partner development. Mr. Clawson continues to contribute in thought leadership within the M&E community, including authoring StorExcel’s technical white paper on Metadata Fusion.

ERIKA FREDERICK

VICE PRESIDENT OF SALES

Erika Frederick brings over 20+ years of experience, with her, in both the traditional IT space of multiple industries, and the technology space for content creation, post production, distribution, and delivery, in the media and entertainment industry.  Erika has extensive knowledge as it relates to information management best practices in large data centers for companies, such as: Disney, Deluxe, DreamWorks, Fox, NBC/Universal, Paramount, Sony, Technicolor, Warner Bros and AOL.  Outside of Media and Entertainment, Erika has also excelled in a variety of technical consultant opportunities for companies, such as: Kaiser Permanente, Wells Fargo, Boeing, Bechtel, Chevron, Starbucks, and Nike.  Erika has a proven ability to introduce new technology solutions into the market, and successfully educate clients on the effects of business decisions on IT.  Erika effectively guides her customers toward making profitable technology decisions, by facilitating conversations between Creative Services, IT, the lines of business, and general counsel.

Prior to joining StorExcel, Erika served as Vice President of Western Regional Sales for Key Code Media.  Additionally, Erika has been in a variety of other positions, including Software Sales Executive for Quantum Corporation, Storage Software Account Manager at HP, and Marketing Account Manager at Avid Technology, Inc., focused on delivering broadcast, post-production, on-line, and archive solutions, for media and creative professionals. 

WILL CAETTA

DIRECTOR OF SERVICES AND SUPPORT

Will Caetta has an extensive background in storage and services, with 25 years in IT data center operations, and a primary focus on application storage, provisioning, disaster recovery, and high availability. Will spent five years with Quantum Corporation as a StorNext Software Support Engineer and StorNext Software Applications Engineer. Will was a leader in providing end user service support, as well as testing of third party products with the CVFS StorNext filesystem and Storage Manager product suite.

Prior to joining Quantum Corporation, Will spent several years with systems integrators and re-sellers, providing large and small organizations with design, integration, and implementation services. Will is a United States Navy veteran. Will served for over 10 years as a Cryptologic technician and Administrative Specialist for the United States Naval Fleet Operations.

At StorExcel, Will leads our Services and Support Division, and is dedicated to provide a seamless transition from planning and implementation, to services. Will is committed to our end user service and support experience; complete with solutions training and knowledge transfer during the turnover and hand-off phase, as well as the coordination with StorExcel's first call services, and third-party vendor services integration.