Our team of experts brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to your project. From storage to security to e-commerce, Market pH has the ability to quickly understand your market challenges in a wide range of industries.


Sherri Chien-Niclas, Marketing Director
With over 15 years of experience in high-tech marketing and business development, Ms. Chien-Niclas is a seasoned marketing consultant who has helped a number of Silicon Valley start-ups launch their companies and innovative products. Ms. Chien-Niclas has held the top marketing role at Metavize and Cenatek, and has also been responsible for strategic marketing, partner marketing, product marketing, product management, marketing communications, and business development at VERITAS (acquired by Symantec), Solid Data Systems, and BiTMICRO Networks.

Ms. Chien-Niclas earned an MBA from Stetson University in Florida, and a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley.

Randy Helmonds, Business Development Director
Mr. Helmonds has generated sales and built strategic alliances in the storage industry for more than a decade. Prior to Market pH, Mr. Helmonds spent over three years at Cenatek and Solid Data Systems, where he was responsible for developing US and international strategic relationships, marketing programs, and channel development for solid state disk technologies. From 1996 to 2001 Mr. Helmonds was retained by BMC Software and responsible for Sales and Product Marketing of their Distributed Systems Backup and Recovery and SAP solutions. He also managed the Business Development relationship for Sun Microsystems and Oracle.

Mr. Helmonds holds a BS in Business Administration / Marketing, and a BA in Biological Science / Human Biology from California State University, Hayward.