# Barbara Murphy Named Business Development Executive of Year Finalist in 2019 Stevie® Awards **Published:** January 24, 2019 **Location:** SAN JOSE, Calif. ![WEKA logo with abstract white shapes on a textured purple to orange gradient background](https://cdn.sanity.io/images/ult5g8gw/production/4061da3e03532447a685d4d60928329ecf6bfba7-1200x675.png) > WekaIO VP Barbara Murphy is a 2019 Stevie Awards finalist, recognized for driving the storage innovator’s rapid growth, partnerships and market expansion. _Vice President of Marketing at WekaIO helps steer the company’s meteoric rise from stealth to powerhouse_ WekaIO, the innovation leader in high-performance, scalable file storage for data intensive applications, today announced that Vice President of Marketing, Barbara Murphy, was named a Business Development Executive of the Year Finalist in the 13th annual Stevie® Awards program. The program is presented by the Stevie Awards, which organizes several of the world’s leading business awards shows including the prestigious International Business Awards® and the Stevie Awards for Great Employers. More than 2,700 nominations from organizations of all sizes and in virtually every industry, in 45 nations, were evaluated in this year’s competition. Finalists were determined by the average scores of more than 150 professionals worldwide, working in seven specialized judging committees. Under Murphy’s marketing leadership, WekaIO launched from stealth and quickly attracted an impressive customer base of marquis companies in artificial intelligence, life sciences, finance, media and entertainment, and high-performance computing (HPC) research. The company continues to scale at an impressive rate having announced key partnerships with HPE, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Cirrascale last year. WekaIO is quickly becoming one of the most exciting places to work, with Murphy being instrumental in developing new markets and attracting innovative industry talent in key roles. “The 2019 judges were very impressed by the caliber of this year’s nominations, which set another record for this competition.  The quality of the accomplishments outlined in every Finalist nomination was remarkable,” said Michael Gallagher, president and founder of the Stevie Awards. In addition to opening new offices in the UK and Detroit, Mich., WekaIO was lauded with a steady flow of business accolades that including Gartner Cool Vendor status in Storage Technologies, a place in Network World’s 10 Hot Hybrid-Cloud Startups to Watch , and a spot in Silicon Review’s 10 Fastest Growing Storage Companies. WekaIO is disrupting the data storage industry, by breaking the mold for how storage is provisioned in the datacenter. WekaIO Matrix™, WekaIO’s flagship product, delivers unmatched HPC class storage with enterprise class features and services, all in one solution, that future-proofs the datacenter and provides IT with a robust platform to support data-intensive applications. “Barbara’s ability to turn our go-to-market vision into reality is impressive, and this honor validates her contribution to our success,” said Liran Zvibel, co-founder and CEO at WekaIO. “She is fiercely effective at developing new lines of business, a passionate advocate for our channel partners’ interests, and a highly engaged member of the leadership team. She cultivates excellence and a passion for winning. The constant influx of new business, inquiries from candidates who want to build their careers at WekaIO, and industry recognition confirms her value and the company’s strategic plans would not come to fruition without her influence.” Details about the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service and the list of Finalists in all categories are available at www.StevieAwards.com/Sales. Stevie® Award winners will be revealed during a gala banquet on Friday, February 22 at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.  More than 600 professionals from across the globe are expected to attend. ## About WEKA **About WEKA** WEKA is the AI data and memory infrastructure company transforming the economics of agentic AI. Its NeuralMesh™ platform unifies high-performance data storage with extended GPU memory, giving enterprises, AI cloud providers, and AI builders a single foundation for training, inference, and agentic workloads. With Augmented Memory Grid, NeuralMesh extends GPU memory capacity by 1000x, accelerates time to first token by up to 20x, and delivers 10x more concurrent users from the same GPU footprint, proven in production benchmarks. Trusted by 30% of the Fortune 50, WEKA enables organizations to scale AI faster, optimize GPU utilization, and reduce the cost of every token served. Learn more at [www.weka.io](https://www.weka.io/) or connect with us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/weka-io/) and [X](https://x.com/weka). _WEKA and the W logo are registered trademarks of WekaIO, Inc. Other trade names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners._ **Media Contact:** WEKA Communications [pr@weka.io](mailto:pr@weka.io) About the Stevie Awards Stevie Awards are conferred in seven programs: the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards, the German Stevie Awards, The American Business Awards®, The International Business Awards®, the Stevie Awards for Great Employers, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business and the Stevie Awards for Sales & Customer Service. Stevie Awards competitions receive more than 12,000 entries each year from organizations in more than 70 nations. Honoring organizations of all types and sizes and the people behind them, the Stevies recognize outstanding performances in the workplace worldwide. 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