Bristol, UK, and Palo Alto, CA. - Gnodal, the network switch provider, has named former Cisco and Fortinet marketing veteran Atchison Frazer as its first Chief Marketing Officer. Frazer brings to Gnodal more than 20 years of enterprise-segment strategic marketing experience, most recently as marketing leader for Cisco's Global Enterprise services business.

"Atchison has an impressive track record leading the marketing strategies of technology companies, both global power brands and successful Silicon Valley start-ups, and has driven at the enterprise field level demand for high performance computing solutions in key vertical markets, such as financial services, energy and manufacturing, and emerging trends such as cloud computing and intelligent networks," said Bob Fernander, president and CEO, Gnodal.

"Gnodal is fundamentally altering the way companies operate in high performance computing environments," said Frazer. "For switches, low latency must combine with bandwidth, scalability and performance advantages to deliver an entirely new value proposition, Gnodal's natural affinity, producing the fastest, highest density switches for predictive, reliable performance."