Mr. Steven Shaffer

Council Member Biography

Steven Shaffer is a 25 year veteran of the IT industry and is currently the President and CEO of Zunesis, a value added reseller (VAR). Zunesis buys from Avnet, Arrow, Synnex, Tech Data, Ingram Micro and other distributors. The company covers the Western US and is focused on enterprise infrastructure solutions including server, storage, networking, software, and services & managed / cloud solutions. Areas of focus include: consolidation, virtualization & optimization, data management and protection solutions, collaboration solutions, and managed / cloud solutions. Zunesis' key vendors include HP, Hitachi, Cisco, EMC, NetApp, Dell, Exagrid, Coraid, Panasas, Brocade, Aruba, Oracle, SAP, VMware, Symantec, Citrix, Microsoft, CommVault, Riverbed, and Bluecoat. Mr. Shaffer is a frequent contributor to Cloud strategy and Managed Services solutions development activities. From 2002-2004, Mr. Shaffer was with Avnet, and prior to 2002, he was an Executive at Sprint. He has written three books dealing with security, electronic commerce & open systems. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2004 - Unspecified

President and Chief Executive Officer, Zunesis, Inc.

2003 - 2004

District Manager, AVNET, INC.

1998 - 2002

Area Director, Sprint Business Solutions