SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Skyera Inc., founded by an executive and engineering team with unsurpassed backgrounds in the NAND flash, solid-state, storage and networking arenas, today announced that it has promoted Mitchell Nishi to Vice President of Finance.

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At a time when the emerging company ramps up revenues, Nishi brings Skyera more than 20 years of financial experience in both public and private enterprises. Prior to joining Skyera, he held senior financial management positions at Echelon Corporation, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Johnson Controls and New Holland in Japan.

"We value Mitch's professional experience managing growing technology companies," said Radoslav Danilak, CEO of Skyera. "The necessity of creating a position at this level confirms that we are on track to financial success under his strong guidance in accounting, reporting and budgeting."

Mitch passed the certified public accounting exams in California, earned a B.S. in business from California State University and an MBA in finance from the Marshall School at the University of Southern California.

Skyera's Skyhawk solid-state solution has received industry acclaim as a visionary and innovative product, validating Skyera's approach to mainstream enterprise solid-state storage. Its SEOS solid-state operating system combines hardware, storage and data management into a unified solution that provides top performance, cost and power consumption attributes.

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About Skyera
Skyera Inc. is an emerging provider of enterprise solid-state storage systems designed to enable a large class of applications with extraordinarily high performance, exceptionally lower power consumption and cost effectiveness relative to existing enterprise storage systems.  Founded by the executives who previously developed the world's most-advanced flash memory controller, Skyera is backed by key technology and financial partnerships designed to position it at the forefront of the hyper growth in the solid-state storage sector.  The company was featured in the Gartner report "Cool Vendors in Storage Technologies, 2012" and was chosen by Flash Memory Summit as a Best of Show award winner for 2012 in the category of Most Innovative Flash Memory Enterprise Business Application.  For more information about the company, visit skyera.com.

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