Leadership

Born and raised in Italy, Marco was always looking to do or create something new.  It’s that mentality that has driven Marco throughout his career, and it’s what led Marco to co-found Embrane.  As the company’s Chief Technology Officer, Marco is responsible for the vision and execution of creating the industry’s first distributed software platform for virtual network services. 

He has over 13 years of experience in the networking industry. He spent eight years in software development, starting at Cisco with the Catalyst 6000 product line, where he architected the software infrastructure for high availability and created enhancements to the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) that are now considered table stakes of any implementation (among others, IEEE 802.1s, Root Guard and Loop Guard).

As a member of the founding team of Andiamo Systems, he architected SAN-OS, the Operating System for the MDS platform, now re-branded as NX-OS and used as the primary data center operating system on Cisco Nexus devices.

After one year as Network Consulting Engineer for Cisco in the Asia Pacific region, he joined Nuova Systems in 2007 as a senior member of the Technical Marketing team. In his role at Nuova and later at Cisco, Marco focused on the definition of a Cisco-wide technology roadmap for Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), as well as on solutions for designing 10Gb/s Ethernet networks in the data center.

Marco earned a Masters in Computer Science Engineering from Politecnico di Torino and has a portfolio of 20 patents.  When he’s not working around the clock, guiding the Embrane R&D team, Marco enjoys reading subjects from history and foreign policy to cognitive sciences and linguistics.  Fond of his past experience in China, he also never misses the opportunity to learn more about the country’s language, culture, and history.

Susheel Chitre is Embrane’s Vice President of Business Development and leads the company’s partnership initiatives. Susheel leverages his more than 20 years of business development and sales experience in the data center and networking industry to build Embrane’s ecosystem of technology and strategic partners as well as to define Embrane’s channel go to market initiatives.

Most recently, Susheel was the Director of Cloud Go To Market at Cisco, creating and launching Cisco’s very successful Cloud Partner Program recruiting over 200 partners worldwide to deliver private and public cloud offers.  He was also responsible for Cisco’s OEM business development efforts, which included more than 40 partners. He was recently named by CRN magazine as one of the 100 channel execs to know.

Prior to Cisco, Susheel was at Andiamo Systems driving their partnership and business development efforts with all major storage vendors and technology and ISV partners.

He has held various roles from systems engineering, sales and strategic alliances in the data center space with Cray Research and Silicon Graphics and Brocade.

Susheel holds Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago-Booth School of Business, a Master of Science in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from the MS University of Baroda, India.

When he is not working or spending time with his daughter, he is an avid hiker and photographer.

Tom Nosella is Embrane’s Chief Strategy Officer and only “canuck” on the executive team. As CSO, Tom is responsible for providing expertise in the development and implementation of Embrane’s technologies and architectures as they relate to current and future market opportunities.   Tom has more than 18 years of experience in data center architecture, large-scale networks, and Internet service provider network engineering.

Prior to joining Embrane, Tom spent 11 years at Cisco Systems.  He was most recently Sr. Director of Engineering within the Data Center Switching Business Unit, an organization responsible for LAN, HPC server fabric, and storage switching products and solutions.  Tom enjoyed leading a highly skilled team of engineers responsible for the creation, validation, and promotion of intelligent and scalable data center designs and solutions for Cisco’s enterprise and service provider customer base. 

Tom was also one of the initial members of Andiamo Systems where was instrumental in driving the product architecture and the adoption of solutions based on the newly minted MDS 9000 Family of SAN switching products.  This effort helped drive Cisco into a leadership position within the storage networking market.  Prior to working on storage networking at Cisco, Tom led enterprise solution design teams focused on large-scale Ethernet design, server farm design, and content delivery networking.  Tom holds five issued U.S. patents in data center networking technology.

Tom started his career at Bell Canada in Ottawa, where he served as Director of Engineering, leading a network engineering team responsible for the design, rollout, and management of large-scale national routed networks.

Tom resides in West Vancouver, BC.  When not heavily immersed in technology or sitting in seat 22A, Tom thoroughly enjoys spending time with his young family growing up in the great white north. Tom is also an avid woodworker, gardener, and photographer, although having much less time for these activities now with a growing family and exciting new role.

Tom earned his Bachelor of Engineering and Management from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.  He is also a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) #1395 having been certified since 1995.