Intransa Names David Nelson-Gal as Vice President of Engineering

CUPERTINO, Calif. -- (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Intransa, the physical security infrastructure and services experts, today announced it has named David Nelson-Gal vice-president of Engineering. Nelson-Gal is responsible for Intransa’s ongoing product development efforts, including the design, quality assurance and delivery of Intransa’s installer-ready server, storage and appliance infrastructure platforms that are purpose-built for the demands of open video surveillance and physical security.

"David brings a wealth of engineering leadership, spanning vertically-integrated global manufacturers of hardware and software, combined with outstanding experience in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and cloud technologies," said Bud Broomhead, CEO at Intransa. “We are delighted that he has joined us to lead our continued investment in the delivery of world-class physical security infrastructure platforms."

Nelson-Gal has more than 20 years of engineering experience leading fast-paced enterprise software companies. Thirteen years in varied executive engineering assignments at Sun Microsystems included vice president of Software Engineering where he led the company's next generation data center products and directed its appliance strategy. More recently he was senior vice president of Engineering at Interwoven, Inc. and joins Intransa from his role of Chief Product Officer at Syncapse Corporation. Nelson-Gal began his career with both a Bachelors and Masters of Science from the University of Michigan.

"I am delighted to have the opportunity to lead and further develop Intransa's proven engineering capabilities,” said Nelson-Gal. “With an extensive product portfolio, Intransa has an incredible breadth of talent and experience, and is primed to expand further to address an ever-growing mix of physical security market needs."

Intransa recently celebrated its 2,000^th physical security customer, each deploying one or more of the company’s optimized server and storage infrastructure platforms. First introduced in mid-2009, Intransa’s award-winning platforms have been installed in a wide range of video surveillance, access control, video analytics and PSIM projects across retail, banking, municipal surveillance, infrastructure protection, education, law enforcement, transportation, gaming and other critical security environments.

About Intransa

Intransa, Inc. delivers installer-ready server and storage infrastructure platforms, purpose-built for the demands of physical security. Our ground-breaking technology lowers cost and eliminates the complexity and ongoing support challenges of integrating commodity servers and storage, while slashing energy consumption and increasing reliability. Customers also leverage our expertise, learned through the installation and support of thousands of our platforms in demanding physical security projects, with our unmatched services and support.

We’ve been named a Security Industry Association’s New Product Showcase winner, a Homeland Security Award recipient, New Product of the Year at ASIS International in 2009 and 2011, and a Top 30 Technology Innovation of 2009.

Our customers deploy our optimized infrastructure platforms for their physical security needs across retail, banking, public safety and law enforcement, gaming, hospitality, corrections, financial services, transportation, hospitals and medical centers, managed service providers, manufacturers, Native American organizations, colleges and school districts, utilities, and a variety of municipal, county, state and federal government users.

For more information about Intransa infrastructure platforms and services, or to locate an authorized distributor, certified integrator or a dealer around the world please visit us at www.intransa.com or www.intransablog.com.

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