Storj Strengthens Executive Leadership Team; Announces JT Olio as Chief Architect and Jacob Willoughby as Chief Technology Officer

Storj, the leader in enterprise-grade, globally distributed cloud object storage, today announced a series of executive talent moves. The company named JT Olio as Chief Architect and Jacob Willoughby as its new Chief Technology Officer. Together, the expanded executive leadership team will work to accelerate Storj’s mission to provide enterprise-grade, secure, performant, decentralized cloud object storage at a fraction of the cost of legacy cloud providers.

A member of the Storj team for nearly five years, JT Olio is transitioning to Chief Architect after serving as the company’s Chief Technology Officer for over two years. Olio began his journey with Storj in 2018, joining as the team’s Engineering Director and then moving to Vice President of Engineering. Prior to his time at Storj, Olio’s expertise includes serving as Vertical Lead of Cloud Storage and Director of Engineering for Vivint Smart Home, along with engineering roles at Space Monkey, Inc., Instructure, Mozy, and Google.

Stepping into the role of Chief Technology Officer is Jacob Willoughby, who has led Storj’s engineering team as Vice President of Product Engineering since February of this year. Willoughby’s 13 years of software engineering experience includes serving as the Chief Technology Officer at CrowdStorage, which was acquired by Storj earlier this year. Prior to that, he served various engineering leadership roles at Vivint Smart Home, Space Monkey, Inc. and Control4.

“Storj is committed to investing in our people and promoting from within. JT and Jacob’s diverse, rounded perspectives have already made significant contributions to Storj and are exactly what our executive leadership team needs as we continue to grow and meet the demand for alternative cloud object storage to providers like Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud Platform and Microsoft Azure,” said Ben Golub, CEO of Storj.

Storj’s decentralized model for enterprise-grade cloud object storage utilizes existing hard drive space to provide fast, secure and reliable storage at a fraction of the cost. By utilizing existing hardware, Storj is able to eliminate the expense of building costly data centers and pass the savings - both in dollars and for the environment - along to customers. Today, the company has over 16,000 storage nodes providing secure, distributed cloud object storage in approximately 100 countries.

The news comes on the heels of the company’s partnership with global data protection and management leader Atempo, and open source pioneer iXsystems.

About Storj

Storj is a leader in decentralized cloud object storage. Built for developers, architects, and IT ops professionals, Storj delivers blazingly fast object storage, CDN-like performance at cold storage prices, enterprise-grade durability, and better security with no vendor lock-in and no single points of failure. Storj meets the leading-edge privacy and sustainability demands for traditional use cases, Web3, and dApps. Easily integrated into any existing stack with S3 compatibility, Storj is architected as a trustless globally distributed network that utilizes existing excess storage capacity making performance, privacy, and resiliency available to any size organization, at 1/5 to 1/20 the price of hyperscalers. Storj stores multiple petabytes and has petabyte-scale enterprise and Web3 customers like Pocket Network, Boonji Project, Gabb Wireless, and the University of Edinburgh. STORJ is an ERC-20 token used across the Storj network.

To learn more about Storj, visit storj.io. Follow us on Twitter at @storj.

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