About CSG

Meet the Team

We are cloud experts that have worked in leading SaaS and cloud computing companies. Our combined experience of over 30 years in both large and startup firms extends from enterprise software, to content caching, to storage, to compute. We are problem solvers with a passion for excellence. We are intellectually curious and highly collaborative. We succeed with the success of our clients.

Patrick Harr, Founder and Managing Director
Patrick Harr founded the Cloud Strategy Group after successfully starting, leading and exiting several technology startups. Most recently, Patrick helped pioneer the emerging cloud storage market as founder and CEO of Nirvanix, a leading cloud storage provider. While at Nirvanix, Patrick developed the business plan and go-to-market strategy, raised $18M in venture funding, built the team, launched the worldwide storage delivery network and CloudNAS (virtual NAS gateway) and secured over 600 customers including General Electric, CSC, CDNetworks, The Planet, NASA and Arizona State University among others. Harr joined Nirvanix from Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, where he served as entrepreneur-in-residence focusing on content, storage, and media services investments. His prior leadership roles include president and CEO of Preventsys Inc., a security risk and compliance management firm that was acquired by McAfee in 2006, and Vice President of the $300M Enterprise Products Group at McDATA Corp., an enterprise storage networking solutions company. Harr joined McDATA through the acquisition of Sanera Systems, a storage networking startup, where he ran marketing, business development and sales. Prior to Sanera, Harr ran worldwide marketing at CacheFlow and was the GM of Novell's Internet and Security Services Group. Mr. Harr received a Masters in Business Administration degree in marketing and entrepreneurial studies from the University of Maryland and his B.A. from Tulane in political economy and Russian.

Edgard Capdevielle, Founder and Managing Director
Edgard Capdevielle served most recently as Vice President of Products for Nirvanix- the market leader in cloud storage. Nirvanix released the leading Cloud Storage service (SDN) and an on-premise NAS gateway (CloudNAS) in less than 18 months, winning various industry awards and securing hundreds of customers. He joined Nirvanix from Brocade Communications' Emerging Businesses unit where he led market entry into the HBA business, doubling Brocade's addressable market. Brocade had acquired McDATA Corporation, where he served as Sr. Director of Product Management leading the Advanced Products Group and was responsible for expanding revenue in new businesses. In addition to generating $3M/qtr in less than a year, his team established and managed OEM relationships with Riverbed, FalconStor, and LSI's StoreAge. Prior to McDATA, Capdevielle worked with the founders of Orbital Data (acquired by Citrix Systems), was a Principal at Outlook Ventures, a $200+M San Francisco based VC firm, and served as Engagement Manager with Ernst & Young's management consulting practice (now Cap Gemini). He received a Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.