OpenMetal Names Steve Francis Chief Revenue Officer to Lead Growth in Private Cloud, Bare Metal, and GPU Infrastructure

Veteran enterprise infrastructure sales leader brings experience from Instaclustr, NetApp, and VMware as demand grows for alternatives to hyperscale cloud.

With OpenMetal, I was immediately drawn to the ability to deploy infrastructure at public cloud speed while maintaining the control and fixed costs of private cloud.”

— Steve Francis

VIRGINIA BEACH, VA, UNITED STATES, November 10, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- OpenMetal today announced the appointment of Steve Francis as Chief Revenue Officer. Steve is leading OpenMetal's revenue strategy as more organizations look to private cloud, dedicated infrastructure, and open source technology for production workloads.

Demand for infrastructure that offers predictable costs, consistent performance, and full control continues to grow as companies reassess their reliance on hyperscale cloud providers and proprietary virtualization platforms. Steve has joined OpenMetal and is guiding how the company reaches and supports those customers across its hosted private cloud, bare metal dedicated server, Ceph storage cluster, and GPU server offerings.

As a member of the executive leadership team, Steve leads and aligns OpenMetal's Sales, Marketing, and Partnerships functions and works closely with Product and Engineering to drive sustainable revenue growth. He is taking an active role in strategic customer engagements and expansion opportunities, and strengthening the technical sales motion that communicates the value of open source private cloud and dedicated infrastructure.

"Steve has spent his career helping businesses adopt infrastructure and open source technologies they can depend on," said Todd Robinson, Founder and President of OpenMetal. "His experience scaling go-to-market teams is exactly what we need as more organizations come to OpenMetal for their dedicated infrastructure. We are glad to have him leading our revenue organization."

Steve brings more than 25 years of enterprise technology sales and go-to-market leadership. At Instaclustr, he served as Chief Revenue Officer and EVP of GTM Operations, with responsibility for sales, customer success, sales engineering, marketing, and consulting. He later led global sales for Instaclustr following its acquisition by NetApp. Earlier in his career, Steve held senior sales leadership roles at VMware, including Senior Director of US Commercial SDN and Cloud, and sales roles at Oracle and SAP. Most recently, he served as Chief Commercial Officer at FOCUS Learning Corporation.

"With OpenMetal, I was immediately drawn to the ability to deploy infrastructure at public cloud speed while maintaining the control and fixed costs of private cloud," said Steve Francis. "I’m excited to work with the team and our customers to help more organizations move their production workloads onto a platform built for performance and predictability."

The appointment reflects OpenMetal's continued investment in the people and processes needed to serve a growing base of customers running databases, virtualization platforms, private cloud environments, AI workloads, and other performance-sensitive applications.

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About OpenMetal

OpenMetal provides hosted private cloud infrastructure powered by OpenStack and Ceph, along with enterprise bare metal dedicated servers, storage clusters, and GPU servers. Designed for teams running large-scale production workloads, OpenMetal offers performance consistency, infrastructure control, and predictable economics as an alternative to hyperscale cloud and proprietary virtualization platforms.

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