Doron Kempel is back

For people who used to work in the storage industry for a few decades, I'm sure they all remember Doron Kempel.

Following his experience at EMC in the Media business group, he was founder and CEO of Diligent, the company who developed protecTIER, a deduplication backup engine, sold to IBM for $200M in 2008. Following this big step, he founded a new company and was the CEO of SimpliVity, a HCI pioneer, he sold to HPE for $650M in 2017. We discovered some time ago that he founded in 2017 in New-York again a new company named Bond around personal security. We don't know if the company name is linked to 007 but the codename for this project was TG-17 and received as of today $34.7M raised in October 2018.

Interestingly we also found that Ron Asher who worked with Doron at Diligent joined him again as VP engineering, he spent time at Stratoscale, Primary Data, IBM and Diligent.