US-based cloud storage company Box has added Dana Evan to its board, as well as appointing Peter Mcgoff as its general counsel and recruiting Tom Addis, as its senior vice president of enterprise sales. The company is led by Aaron Levie [pictured].
Evan was formerly chief financial officer of Verisign, working with the company as it grew from a start-up to nearly 5000 employees.
McGoff was senior vice president and general counsel at Informatica Corporation, where he worked for 12 years.
Addis was previously in senior sales positions at cloud company Salesforce.com. He has also worked at technology companies Siebel Systems and IBM.
Box, was founded in 2005.
In October last year Box raised $81m with backing from SAP Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Gertmany-based technology company SAP, and Salesforce. It is also backed by venture capital firms Andreessen Horowitz, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Emergence Capital Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Scale Venture Partners, and US Venture Partners. The company also won backing from Bessemer Venture Partners in the $81m round
That round takes the company past $150m raised, and TechCrunch pins the total raised by the company at $162m.
Box.net works as an online content management and data storage available for both business and personal users. The funding coincides with a technical integration between Box.net and Salesforce’s business-based private network Salesforce Chatter, allowing Chatter users to collaborate using content on Box.net.