Joe Heel

Who is Joe Heel?

As Senior Vice President for the Global Storage Practice, Joe Heel

is accountable for global storage sales revenue, margin, and business

objectives, and will be measured by these simple metrics every week,

quarter and year -- Growth and Making Money. Joe believes that strong

alignment to Sun's core product groups -- Storage, Services, Systems

and Software -- helps to influence a portfolio of products and services

that are responsive to our customers' needs. He and his team provide a

line of sight from the customer to the Storage Product Group to ensure

that Sun's RD investments achieve maximum return. Transparency,

Speed and Teamwork are the guiding principles of the Storage Practice.

Heel joined Sun in September 2005 with 13+ years experience managing

senior executive relationships in the technology industry. As a Partner

in the High Tech Practice at McKinsey and Company, Heel served clients

in Europe, the United States and Latin America on corporate strategy,

operations, mergers and acquisitions, business development and

organizational design. Heel also started and led McKinsey's Miami

office and its Private Equity Practice.

Born in Germany, Heel completed a PhD in Computer Science at the

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has published numerous

academic papers. Fluent in four languages, Heel now resides in San

Francisco, where he enjoys hiking, boating, biking and skiing.