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About us > Management Team > Krzysztof Franek

Board of Directors

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CEO and President

Krzysztof (Kristof) Franek founded Open-E in 1998, and has been serving as Open-E's CEO and President since. Krzysztof is a widely recognized expert on the storage market, and has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry in various sales & managerial leadership positions. Kristof led OEM sales at Logitech Germany, and served as one of the top sales producers at 3ware/AMCC and Kenwood Technologies. Prior to Open-E Kristof was General Manager at Aztech Systems GmbH, a publicly listed East Asian manufacturer of multimedia PC components. Krzysztof is an engineer by training, and received his Master of Engineering degree from the University of Science and Technology in Krakow.

Product Compatibility

The following information is intended to assist you in choosing the appropriate hardware to use with the Open-E NAS software. This list only includes RAID controllers, Motherboards and Network Cards which were successfully tested. Hardware which is not included on this list is considered to be incompatible, and they do not work with the Open-E NAS software.

We recommend you to contact one of our authorized partners to get more information on hardware compatibility.

Backup Agents

Certified Systems

Fibre Channel HBA
(initiator mode)

Fibre Channel HBA
(target mode)

HDD controller
(hardware RAID)

HDD controller
(software RAID)

iSCSI initiator

LCD

Motherboard

Network Card

Network Card - 10Gbit

Network Card - Infiniband