Vice President of Sales & Partnering, Cloudscaling
Troy Angrignon is a sales and partnering executive with 20 years of experience in the IT arena, spanning network consulting services, enterprise software, software as a service, enterprise and web 2.0, and cloud computing. As Vice President of Sales & Partnering at Cloudscaling, Troy is responsible for global sales and partner development.
Prior to Cloudscaling, Troy was ISV partner manager with RightScale and consulting strategist at Appirio. Before this Troy guest co-chaired Under the Radar’s 2009 cloud conference as well as Vancouver’
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Marketing Vice President, Appnomic
Manisha Arora joined Appnomic Systems as a seasoned product management and marketing vice-president empowered with a unique combination of technical analysis and interpersonal skills that allow her to communicate effectively with peers, clients and executives. Her years of business development and delivery experience demonstrate an established track record of generating significant revenue with enterprise customers. Manisha began her career a senior software engineer with Data Conversion, and then parlayed that technical experience to serve a systems analyst and senior consultant with Analyst International
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CTO, Cloudera
Amr is Co-Founder and CTO of Cloudera where he is responsible for all engineering efforts from product development to release, for both the open source projects and Cloudera’s proprietary software. Prior to Cloudera Amr served as Vice President of Engineering at Yahoo!, and led a team that used Hadoop extensively for data analysis and business intelligence across the Yahoo! online services. Amr holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, and a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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Karun Bakshi, Technology Evangelism, Cloud & Infrastructure, Microsoft
Karun Bakshi directs the Cloud & Infrastructure portfolio of companies in the Microsoft BizSpark One program where he identifies, recruits and advises high potential startups in cloud computing. Prior to Microsoft, Karun was at Oracle. In his last role at Oracle, he led business development for Oracle's database and middleware platforms in the retail and life sciences industry verticals for North America. Prior to this role, Karun was the senior product manager for the Oracle mobile database. In yet another life, he was a “hack", developing applications and algorithms for next generation satellite
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Drew Banks is Head of Marketing, Sales, and Support @ Prezi, the zooming presentation software. Backed by TED Conference and Accel Partners, Prezi has been widely adopted across education and business. In its 3+ years, Prezi has amassed over 14 million users and is growing at over a million users a month. Though Prezi's primary application is cloud-based, the company also has an offline desktop version as well as an iPad app.
After treading across NC State's “Brickyard” plaza and downMIT’s infinite corridor, Drew cut his entrepreneurial teeth within game-changing companies such as
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Katalin Bartfai-Walcott is an IT Architect and Strategic Planner in Intel’s Cloud Infrastructure Group, where she leads the planning efforts for Intel’s Cloud Computing Datacenter strategy. Her focus is on technical direction and long term business strategy for server, network and storage products as well as new architectures for scale-out and autonomic server systems in support of Cloud workloads and datacenters.
In her past work, Katalin started with IBM in 1991 in Global services (IGS) and later in Systems and Technology Group (STG) working with customers, business partners and in various IBM internal and cross divisional projects. She has led many Fortune 500 and large customer engagements worldwide focusing on multi-platform (Power, Mainframe and Intel) based solutions and datacenter transformation and consolidation efforts. She led emerging business opportunities around complex technologies, including grid, virtualization engine and cloud computing. She built IBM’s Linux Services and Support
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CEO, Hortonworks
Rob is the former chief operating officer of both SpringSource and JBoss, two of the most commercially successful open source companies in history. Rob also served in senior roles at Oracle, where he directed a $1 billion sales organization, I2 and Manhattan Associates. He currently sits on the boards of Black Duck and EnterpriseDB, two successful and well-regarded vendors in the open source industry. Rob has a Bachelor’s degree in Business Management from Jacksonville State University and currently holds the title of Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of
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Big Data & Cloud Czar, NetApp
Val joined NetApp in 1998 and leads the Strategic Planning Team within the office of the CTO. Working with customers, analysts, and alliance partners, Val focuses on next-generation research projects and is responsible for NetApp’s product vision.
As an early Big Data adopter, Val chairs the Enterprise Data Architecture Track of the Hadoop Summit. Val also introduced the first Cloud Standard to the industry as chairman of SNIA’s Cloud Storage Initiative, whose mission is to foster the growth and success of the cloud storage market. Previously, Val served as
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Ron founded Think Big Analytics, the leading professional services firm that's purpose-built for Big Data. Ron leads a team of experts who work with premium customers to create sustained competitive advantage from data science applications built on Hadoop and real-time Big Data technologies.
Previously, Ron was the VP of Engineering for Quantcast where he led the data science and product development teams which processed two petabytes of data daily using Hadoop. Prior to that Ron was a founder of enterprise consulting companies C-bridge and New Aspects. Ron was CTO of C-bridge as it delivered
Mary Beth Borgwing is a finance and technology savvy senior executive with general management, strategy, finance, technology and operations experience in financial services, global insurance, healthcare, manufacturing and small business market segments. She has extensive start-up and turn around experience with a strong track record for problem solving, profit and market share improvement, speedy results and team building.
Mary Beth is founding member of Standish Risk Management a consulting and advisory services firm focused on the 360-degree view of operational risk. In conjunction w
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Director of Product Management, Couchbase
Dipti Borkar is director of product management at Couchbase where she is responsible for the company’s flagship product, Couchbase Server, and works with customers and users to understand emerging requirements for low-latency, scalable data stores. Dipti has deep technical experience in the database industry having worked at IBM as a software engineer and Development Manager for the DB2 server team and then at MarkLogic in product management.
Billy is responsible for the day-to-day operations of DataStax. He has 20 years of experience in the database industry in roles ranging from DBA to senior executive. Prior to DataStax, Billy spent 6 years at Quest Software, a provider of systems management software, where his most recent role was VP and GM of the database business unit. Under his leadership, the industry-leading Quest database business grew from supporting traditional relational databases to a portfolio that now includes tools for cloud, NoSQL, columnar, and Hadoop databases, as well as business intelligence offerings. Prior to
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VP, Marketing, Radian6
Rob is the vice president of marketing for Salesforce Radian6. He is responsible for global marketing, social strategy, community engagement and product marketing. Rob joined Salesforce in May of 2011 through the acquisition of Radian6, the industry-leading social media-monitoring platform, used by more than half of the FORTUNE 100 companies.
Rob has been a marketing executive for online media and software start-ups in Canada and the UK. With almost two decades of experience in the media, interactive and technology industries, Rob is often sought to speak about how b
CEO, BitRock
Erica is the CEO of BitRock, makers of the popular BitNami cloud application library and management tools. BitNami Cloud Images drive millions of hours of usage across the leading cloud providers. Prior to joining BitRock, Erica managed multiple sales teams for T-Mobile and served as a liaison to the mobile enthusiast community. Previous to that, she held positions as an Analyst at Oakwood Worldwide and as a consultant with Chekiang First Bank in Hong Kong, where she helped to plan the launch of its internet banking service. Erica has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from
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Joe Brockmeier is a open source evangelist for Citrix, working on the Apache CloudStack (incubating) project. Joe has a long history of involvement with open source, and has also worked for Novell as the openSUSE community manager. He has also spent many years working as a technology journalist, and has written for ReadWriteWeb, Linux.com, LWN, Linux Magazine, NetworkWorld, ZDNet, and many others.
Gleb Budman is co-founder and CEO of Backblaze, an online backup company that provides the only "backup all data" service with unlimited storage for just $5 per month. Previously, Gleb led product strategy, management, and marketing for venture-funded companies Kendara and MailFrontier from inception through acquisition by Excite@Home and SonicWALL. He held leadership roles at both acquiring companies and previously at GE.
Gleb has spoken and written about Backblaze's big data adventures in developing their own 135 TB Storage Pod, open sourcing the design, and building out over 40 petabytes
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Senior Vice President, Frost & Sullivan
Greg Caressi serves as the Senior Vice President of the Healthcare and Life Sciences practice at Frost & Sullivan, where he has built and leads research, growth consulting, and sales and business development teams across Frost & Sullivan’s programs covering Connected Health, Life Sciences, Advanced Medical Technologies.
Prior to joining Frost & Sullivan, Greg worked for twenty years as an economist, with a focus on macroeconomics, developing economies, international trade, international marketing and export promotion. Greg has hands-on experience
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Director, Intel Corporation
Ajay has over 13 years of experience in the technology industry with over 10 years of experience at Intel Corporation. Ajay has held a variety of IT, software and hardware engineering positions while at Intel and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Ajay has spoken at numerous forums worldwide including Computer World’s Storage Networking World and the National Defense Industrial Association. In addition, Ajay is a highly regarded expert in his field of cloud computing and data center management and has been interviewed and cited in prestigious publications such as Data Center Knowledge
Product Line Manager, VMware
Patrick Chang leads the Hybrid Cloud initiative at VMware and manages a portfolio of products and services including VMware vCloud Connector and vcloud.vmware.com. Prior to VMware, he was Director of Product Management at CA Technologies (Wily Technology Division) responsible for the $150M Introscope Application Performance Management product line. He joined CA Technologies thru the acquisition of Wily Technology where he was the company's first product marketing manager and helped grow the business from $1M to $59M before CA's acquisition. He holds a MBA from Rotm
Yanpei Chen works at Cloudera, a leading vendor of enterprise Hadoop. He leads their efforts in customer workload management, performance optimization, and large scale testing. Yanpei holds a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked on workload-driven design and evaluation of big data systems in general, and had industrial collaborations with several different companies.
CEO & Founder, RightScale
Michael Crandell is the CEO and a founder of RightScale, where he provides the vision and direction for the company as it pioneers innovative ways to bring the power of cloud computing to any organization. Crandell is a frequent speaker at cloud computing industry conferences, and he has played a major role in helping establish and promote openness and transparency in the cloud market. Prior to RightScale, he served as CEO at several Internet Software-as-a-Service (SAAS) companies and as executive vice president at eFax.com. Crandell received his B.A. from Stanford University and completed graduate
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Josh Crowe leads the Product Management and Business Development functions across the complete portfolio of Internap solutions. He is a seasoned executive with extensive product management, development and strategy experience, with particular emphasis in the areas of cloud computing, managed hosting and network services.
Prior to this role, he served as Internap’s Senior Vice President of Product Engineering. Previously, he was with Savvis, where he served as Vice President, Global Software Development for the network, managed services, security and cloud computing portfolio. In progressively senior positions during his six years with the company, Josh’s responsibilities spanned various functions including product management, product engineering and software development. He and his teams released the company’s first cloud computing products, the success of which significantly contributed to CenturyLink’s
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Darren Cunningham is the VP of Marketing for Informatica Cloud. He is responsible for leading product, customer and program marketing initiatives for Informatica cloud data integration business, which received the 2011 CODiE Award for Best Cloud Management Solution and has been recognized by Salesforce.com customers as the best of AppExchange three years in a row. Prior to Informatica, Darren was VP of Marketing at LucidEra, an early entrant in the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business intelligence market. He led analytics product management and AppExchange data management partnerships at Salesforce.com
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Mr. Edelman has held senior management positions in corporate IT and global consultancies. Currently, he works at Blackhawk Network, a leading provider of prepaid and financial payments products for consumers and businesses. Previously he served in various IT leadership roles for a number of companies, including Bank of America, Overture (Yahoo), Cardinal Health, and QVC, Inc., and QVC GmbH. Mr. Edelman is a highly-regarded speaker, he frequently presents at conferences on virtualization, and cloud computing.
Enterprise Architect, Cisco
Rodrigo Flores is an Enterprise Architect at Cisco’s Intelligent Automation Business Unit working on Cisco’s cloud management product, Cisco Cloud Portal and Cisco Process Orchestrator and it’s big data product, Cisco Tidal Enterprise Scheduler.
Prior to Cisco, Rodrigo was the Founder and CTO of newScale where he pioneered the concept of service catalog-driven self-service provisioning. the first and most successful service request and service catalog product in the market. He led the development, product strategy and vision, sales and venture funding of new
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Ryan is a founding general partner of Storm Ventures. At Storm Ventures, Ryan focuses on enterprise IT and web opportunities. He has primarily invested in SaaS (Crowd Factory / Acquired by Marketo, BlackStratus), mobile (Appcelerator) and cloud/internet related investments (Hubpages, Kidaro/Acquired by Microsoft, MetaCloud, Spalshtop and XDN). He has also invested in semiconductors/components as well (SandForce /Acquired by LSI and Ignis Optics /Acquired by Bookham).
Prior to founding Storm Ventures, Ryan directed the business development activities at E-TEK Dynamics where he focused on buil
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Executive Vice President, Marketing & Business Development, Fuzzy Logix
Mr. Golkar has over 20 years of experience in enterprise software, database, business intelligence, analytics, web services, systems and cloud computing.
Previously, Mr. Golkar led Sun Microsystems (now Oracle)’s $2 billion global database, business intelligence and data warehousing business for 9 years, recommended the acquisition of and investment in database companies, and led the development of Sun’s data warehouse appliance. Earlier, at Siemens/Pyramid, Cyrus was recognized by the CEO for the creation of the
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Penelope specializes in adoption strategies for cloud and other emerging technologies and portfolio management of early stage innovation. While with IBM, she led innovation, strategy, and product development efforts for all of IBM’s product and service divisions and helped to design, implement, and manage one of the world’s first public clouds.
CEO, Datameer
Stefan Groschupf is the co-founder and CEO of Datameer and is well known for his entrepreneurial accomplishments in data management and large-scale distributed computing.
Before Datameer, Stefan was the co-founder and CEO of Scale Unlimited, a leading provider of educational and consulting services for Hadoop and related technologies with proven success in companies such as HP, Sun, Apple, Deutsche Telekom and Nokia. Earlier, Stefan was CEO of 101tec, a supplier of Hadoop and Nutch-based search and text classification software to industry-leading companies such as DHL and EMI M
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CEO, Racemi Inc.
Mr. Guillory is the CEO of Racemi Inc. Racemi builds industry leading solutions that are purpose built to solve the cloud migration issue. With Racemi, businesses can move server workloads “as is” between dissimilar physical, virtual, and cloud platforms, enabling them to easily migrate existing physical and virtual workloads between public, private, or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Currently Racemi supports migrations (P2C, V2C, C2C) to, from and between top public cloud providers such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace, GoGrid, and Terremark, as well as provisioning to major cloud platforms such as
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Chief Strategy Officer, Saffron Technology
Paul is responsible for developing Saffron’s roadmap to maximize future growth opportunities including corporate development.
With more than 20 years’ experience in enterprise software and services, Paul’s background combines academic thought leadership with international executive leadership at global companies. Paul has been entrenched in research as Senior Scientist and Assistant Professor at outstanding European and American Universities (Northwestern University, U.S., Technical University Munich and Darmstadt, Germany). He is an expert in computational chemistry and computer graphics (Ph.D., research and teaching in Nonlinear Quantum Dynamics and Chaos Theory), authoring numerous publications and books, including
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Co-founder and CEO
With more than 25 years experience in the development and commercialization of intelligent software systems, “Manny” is an evangelist for the broad adoption of associative memory technology, defining a new school of thinking about Big Data Analytics. He is Saffron’s principle evangelist of this new approach and its applications to national, business, and consumer intelligence. Saffron has been noted by Gartner Research as one of five "Cool Vendors" in Enterprise Information Management, listed by JMP Securities among one hundred “Private Movers and Shakers in Big Data and Business Intelligence”
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Shankar is VP of Products at Citrix Systems, Inc. He heads up strategy, product management and engineering and for the enterprise mobility and the end-user computing group at Citrix. Prior to Citrix, Shankar was VP of Products and Strategic Initiatives at Webex and was part of the team that led the acquisition of Webex by Cisco – where he started and ran the Cloud Applications Group. Shankar was also the VP of Products and Strategy of Tibco Software where he helped create the EAI space and was part of the IPO team.
Shankar has a B.Tech from IIT Bombay, M.S. in Engineering from Ohio Stat
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Engineering Director, Search Query Services, eBay
Brian knows the satisfaction and importance of good search results, and his team is responsible for ensuring that the millions of queries entered onto the eBay website provide just that. The words “Did you mean…?” are incredibly meaningful to Brian as he combs through a universe of queries altered by synonyms, acronyms, attributes, and expansions.
Brian is responsible for query reformulation, spell correction, and related searches as the Director of Engineering for the Search Science Query Services team at eBay. Brian has been at eBay since 2002 in a variety of engineering management roles, including search metrics, crowdsourced human judgment, classification, data publishing, and browsing. Prior to eBay Brian was at Handspring, Excite@Home, Synopsys, and AT&T Bell Labs. Brian received his PHD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland in 1993. His papers regarding visualizing hierarchical and categorical data with Treemaps
Product Manager, Google Cloud Team
Navneet Joneja is a product manager on the Google Cloud team, focusing on Google Cloud Storage. Prior to joining Google in 2011, Navneet led cloud initiatives at Yahoo and Amazon. Navneet has an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California – Berkeley, and bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from Delhi University, India.
VP, Product Innovation at SoftLayer Technologies
Marc Jones serves as Director of Product Innovation for SoftLayer. In this role, he is responsible for identifying, facilitating and evangelizing new product and service development – including R&D, software development and system development.
An accomplished technology executive, he previously served as director of software product development with Rackspace Cloud (formerly Mosso), the cloud division of Rackspace. He was a key member of the senior leadership team responsible for developing and managing the company’s cloud computing product strategy and roadmap, architecture and engineering, business analysis and requirements, along with software product development. Mr. Jones spearheaded the Rackspace accelerated provisioning automation and process improvements, and aligned software product development around the company’s core
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Co-Founder and CEO of Hypertable
Doug is co-founder and CEO of Hypertable, Inc, a company that provides professional services for Hypertable, a high performance, scalable, NoSQL database. He started the Hypertable project and led the Hypertable development team at Zvents, prior to spinning it out to form Hypertable, Inc. Doug first gained big data experience when he joined Inktomi's Web Search division in 1997. There he held both management and engineering positions and was a driving force behind the development of the company's distributed crawling and indexing infrastrucutre. Doug earned a B.S. in Computer Science from
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Tropo Product Manager, Voxeo
Adam Kalsey has been an internet entrepreneur since 1995. He's the
Product Manager for Tropo and and a developer advocate at Voxeo,
evangelizing Voxeo to developers and startups. He was a co-founder of
IMified, where he created the leading platform for Instant Messaging
applications, and joined Voxeo through the acquisition of IMified in
June 2009. Previously, he was founder and CTO of Pheedo, a pioneer in
RSS advertising and had served as VP of Product for cloud computing
and advertising companies. Adam's passion for startups led to his
co-founding SacStarts, a Sacrament
Executive Director Research & Quality, Kaiser Permanente
Shadaab Kanwal is a recognized visionary strategist, business advisor and patient focused technology steward; serves as the Executive Director Research & Health Policy; Quality & Care Delivery Excellence and Community Benefits IT portfolio at Kaiser Permanente.
Shadaab brings 18 years of distinguished operations and technology leadership experience that formed strategic intent for innovation and produced competitive advantage for UCLA Health Sciences, OhioHealth, Mayo Clinic, United Healthcare (Fortune 50) and Catholic Healthcare W
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CEO, Infochimps
Jim Kaskade serves as CEO of Austin-based Infochimps, the leading Big Data Platform-as-a-Service provider. Jim is a visionary leader within both large as well as small company environments with over 25 years of experience building hi-tech businesses, leading startups in cloud computing enterprise software, software as a service (SaaS), online and mobile digital media, online and mobile advertising, and semiconductors from their founding to acquisition.
Jim joined Infochimps after serving as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at PARC, a Xerox company, where he helped advance the Big Da
Founder, Chairman, and CEO, GoGrid
John Keagy is Founder, Chairman, and CEO of GoGrid, a global leader in cloud and hybrid infrastructure hosting. John is an Internet infrastructure pioneer, with nearly 20 years of experience as a CEO building, operating successful Internet service providers. At ServePath, now known as GoGrid, Keagy drove the early growth of the dedicated server hosting market by introducing multiple firsts, including multiprocessor servers and hosted load balanced server networks. John's entrepreneurial skills and strategic vision have led ServePath's and now GoGrid's rapid growth. The company was named to Deloitte's
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Co-founder and CEO, Nebula
Chris C. Kemp is the co-founder and CEO of Nebula, developers of a turnkey enterprise private cloud computing system. Prior to Nebula, Kemp was the Chief Technology Officer for IT at NASA, where he co-founded OpenStack, and was responsible for pioneering work in cloud computing, open source and open government. Kemp has also served on the White House Cloud Computing Executive Steering Committee, and was the chair of the Cloud Standards Working Group. Previously, Kemp served as the CIO of NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley where he forged partnerships with Google and Microsoft and
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Member, Sand Hill Angels
David has over 15 years experience focused on entrepreneurship and innovation. David has founded several start-ups including one focused on ecotourism and another focused on enterprise mobility. David has also assisted many start-ups in their growth. David has helped start-ups in may ways from assuming the CEO role and closing a series C, to transforming their business models and market approaches, to acting as a senior advisor.
CTO, President, Co-Founder
Philip (Flip) Kromer is co-founder and CTO of Infochimps, a Big Data infrastructure provider. At Infochimps, Flip built a cloud architecture capable of spinning up clusters as large as 60 nodes with the push of a button, using devops to make this possible with minimal distraction. He also helped author Wukong, the most-used framework for Ruby streaming in Hadoop. He holds a B.S. in Physics and Computer Science from Cornell University and attended graduate school in Physics at the University of Texas at Austin. Flip enjoys riding his bicycle around Austin, eating homemade soup, and playing extreme
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Vice President, Teradata
Randy Lea is vice president of the Teradata Aster Center of Innovation for the Americas. He is responsible for field operations including sales, technical pre-sales and professional services for the Teradata Aster MapReduce Analytic Platform. Lea reports to Rocky Blanton, President of the Americas for Teradata.
The Aster Center of Innovation (COI) supports the Teradata industry solution organizations with Big Data and MapReduce analytic solutions using Aster’s patented SQL-MapReduce data base technology and packaged analytics. As companies explore the value of integrating both structured and unstructured data, the need has surfaced for a Discovery platform that gives the data analyst the right tool to easily investigate new insights with new rich analytics. As a Discovery platform Aster provides data analysts with the ability to analyze new and existing data via SQL, Map-Reduce and statistical functions
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Ginny Lee has worked in the high tech industry for over twenty years. At Intel Corporation, she is responsible for providing legal guidance on privacy and security matters, especially as they relate to “Privacy By Design”. Prior to Intel, Ginny was the Director of Platform and Product Privacy at Yahoo! where she was responsible for the policy direction of Yahoo!’s varied products and platforms. Ginny also ran a boutique law practice focused on privacy and intellectual property law. As a registered patent attorney, she has consulted with start-ups in a variety of areas, such as internet software
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CMO, Totango
Dominique is the CMO of Totango. She is a globe trotting entrepreneur, executive, venture investor, and mom - with a passion for the consumerization of the enterprise in general and new ways to co-create recurring value with users online in particular. Prior to Totango Dominique was CEO and CMO at big data platform LogLogic (sold to TIBCO) and CMO at Fundly, an online fundraising platform for nonprofits. She also created over $600 million in shareholder value as a venture investor and helped Philips Electronics and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone launch new mobile and cloud businesses. Dominique
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Daniel is the founder and CTO of BitRock, developers of the popular Bitnami Cloud Application Library and management tools. Previously, he was part of the original engineering teams at Covalent technologies (acquired by VMWare) and Devicescape. He holds a Ms. of Sc. in Telecommunications from Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Sevilla and Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, with a focus on optical networking. Daniel has contributed to various web infrastructure open source projects, published multiple technical books and became a member of the Apache Software Foundation, although he is not currently
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Kyle MacDonald is Vice President of Cloud at Canonical. He is responsible for strategy and execution of the Ubuntu Cloud business. Mr. MacDonald served as Chief Evangelist at Cloud.com, Inc. He also served as Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy at Hosting.com/Wachovia Capital Partners. Prior to this position, he held executive leadership positions at Sun Microsystems including leading the Web 2.0, Internet and next generation service providers sector at Sun Microsystems, acquired by Oracle in 2009. He served as Corporate Technologist for software and strategic technol
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With more than ten years of online marketing experience, Alex has seen web marketing grow and become the sophisticated field it is today. Throughout her career, Alex has been an active community organizer, starting with the open source Fedora Project, to VMware user communities, and currently building a community for Nebula in Palo Alto. Alex’ main professional passion is building strong online communities.
Chief Marketing Officer, Magnaquest
Rama krishna Mashetty, Chief Marketing Officer at Magnaquest, a market leader in providing subscription management solutions to global customers. Rama Krishna comes with a rich experience of over 18 years spanning across Product engineering, Product strategy and Product Management and Solution delivery. He successfully lead several multi million dollar engagements in fortune 100 companies. In earlier roles, he worked as CTO and rolled out several innovative solutions that gave immediate bottom line results. He was a founder of several companies in ERP and h
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Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer, Piston Cloud Computing
Prior to co-founding Piston Cloud Computing, Joshua McKenty was the Technical Architect of NASA's Nebula Cloud Computing Platform and the OpenStack compute components. As a member of OpenStack's Project Policy Board, Joshua plays an instrumental role in the OpenStack community. Joshua has over two decades of experience in entrepreneurship, management and software engineering and architecture. He was the team lead for the development of the Netscape Browser (vs. 8) as well as AOL's IE AIM toolbar, and a senior engineer at Flock.com
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CEO, Eucalyptus Systems
Marten Mickos is CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the leader in open source cloud computing platforms for on-premise use. Previously as CEO of MySQL AB, Marten grew that company from a garage start-up to the second largest open source company in the world. After the acquisition by Sun Microsystems of MySQL AB, he served as Senior Vice President of Sun's Database Group. Marten holds a M.Sc. in technical physics from Helsinki University of Technology in his native Finland. He is a recipient of the Audemars Piguet "Changing Times Award: European Entrepreneur of the Year 2006"
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Diane Mueller is a leading cloud technology advocate and is the author of numerous articles and white papers on emerging technology. At ActiveState, she works with enterprise IT and community developers to evangelize the next revolution of cloud computing - private platform-as-a-service. She is instrumental in identifying, building, and positioning ActiveState’s Stackato cloud application platform. She has been designing and implementing products and applications embedded into mission critical financial and accounting systems at F500 corporations for over 20 years. Diane Mueller is actively
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David Nalley is a committer and is currently on the PPMC for Apache CloudStack In addition he\’s a long time contributor to the Fedora Project, where among other things he is currently serving on the Fedora Project Board. He’s also contributed to in various forms to Cobbler, Zenoss, Opengroupware.org, OLPC Math4, and Sahana. He is a frequent speaker at Free Software conferences around the nation, and writes for a number of technical and open source media publications.
Nitin Narkhede is General Manager of Technology Strategy and Innovation at Wipro Technologies. He is responsible for services strategy, academia and industry collaboration and concept to market activities for services and solutions based on new technology areas. Nitin’s current areas of focus include Big Data, Smart Systems, Digital world transformation, Mobile Enterprise and Web scale systems. He also incubated solutions and services in areas of Cloud computing, Sustainability and Green, Analytics and Information management, Social computing and Collaboration in the recent past. Nitin has played
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Sr. Director, Cloud Technologies Practice, Persistent Systems
Shriram is a senior technology and software engineering professional with a terrific record of success in software architecture, technical and operational management, product development, and delivery. He has been helping Persistent customers move their product infrastructure from traditional models to the cloud. He helped in selecting the right vendors, making the right technology choices, and driving cloud adoption among product development leaders. As more services move to the cloud, performance across various cloud types becomes increasingly important. Shriram is currently looking for best
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CEO, Totango
Guy Nirpaz, CEO and Founder of Totango, has dedicated most of his career to technology and improving the way people do business. He believes cloud computing has led to the amazing growth of SaaS companies which in turn enables affordable and improved services for customers and enterprises alike. His latest venture, Totango, a real-time customer success management solution, will level the customer engagement playing field for all SaaS companies.
Ethan is the founder and CEO of SpiderOak - providing cloud-based backup, synchronization, and sharing services. Through the creation of a fully secure environment ('zero-knowledge' privacy), SpiderOak focuses on delivering a more flexible and technically advanced solution to the consumer, small business, and enterprise.
Ethan graduated from Harvard University in 1999. Upon graduation, he matriculated to New York to produce a short film about an elderly Jewish brassiere maker. When complete he moved back to his hometown of Chicago - producing commercials and designing/constructing furniture. He
CEO, Loggly
Charlie is Loggly’s CEO and Chief Enthusiasm Officer. Charlie grew up in New York but headed west when Apple recruited him as a young pup. Twenty years in Silicon Valley later, Charlie has been CEO of software companies Digital Fountain (acquired by Qualcomm) and Aptiva (acquired by Yahoo!). A product builder and marketeer at heart, he loves to tell the story of how he turned his twin son’s birth into a product launch that was picked up by the New York Times. When not toppling trees, Charlie lives in Menlo Park with his wife and sons.
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John is currently the Lead Technical Advisor to the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA). He works closely with the Board of Directors to help set the strategic priorities/direction and ensures execution to alliance objectives. You can learn more about the ODCA at their website:www.opendatacenter.org
John has over 20 years of IT experience at Intel in various roles. Before taking his current role, John was Director of Data Center & Hosting – responsible for Intel’s traditional IT Enterprise domain. During his tenure, John led the transition to an internal private cloud platform wh
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Editor, eWeek
Chris Preimesberger was named Editor of Features & Analysis at eWEEK in November 2011. Previously he served eWEEK as Senior Writer, covering a range of IT sectors that include data center systems, cloud computing, storage, virtualization, green IT, e-discovery and IT governance. His blog, Storage Station, is considered a go-to information source. Chris won a national Folio Award for magazine writing in November 2011 for a cover story on Salesforce.com and CEO-founder Marc Benioff, and he has served as a judge for the SIIA Codie Awards since 2005. In previous IT journalism, Chr
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Vice President, Customer Success, YouSendIt
Abhay Rajaram is responsible for evangelizing YouSendIt’s solutions, driving successful product implementations, and managing ongoing strategic engagements with enterprise customers.
With nearly 20 years of experience in product development, product marketing and customer enablement, Abhay is an established leader in the areas of SaaS, security, networking and web-based services.
Prior to YouSendIt, Abhay managed product operations, strategy, pricing and training for Cisco’s Security Technology Business Unit (STBU), including the Cisco IronPor
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Tim Riley is VP, products and business development for Koupon Media, provider of digital offer management platform for retailers and brands. With over 15 years experience in the mobile industry, Riley held similar positions for Motorola, Qualcomm and, most recently, Visa. Tim is interested in delivering mobile commerce solutions that change how consumers interact with brands and retailers. Tim earned his MBA from DePaul University and his Bachelor's degree from University of Kansas.
Founder & CEO, X2Engine
John Roberts is a CRM developer and entrepreneur. In 2011 John founded X2EngineCRM a new open source based CRM company. John is also a co-founder and former CEO of SugarCRM Inc. John has more than 20 years experience designing CRM systems starting in the early days (1990s) to today’s state-of-the-art open-source virtual private clouds. John is the coauthor of a software engineering patent and received a BS in Business from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Chief Executive Officer, OpSource
Since 1996, Mr. Ryan has been instrumental in defining and creating services organizations that improve the quality and reliability of the technology infrastructures businesses depend on for communications and commerce. He is currently considered one of the leading thinkers in SaaS and sits on the Software Executive Board at the SIIA.
Prior to co-founding OpSource in 2002, Mr. Ryan was President of the Americas for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN). He was responsible for integrating the sales and delivery organizations of the company's Internet businesses-hosting, IP networking, and managed services - providing customers with an integrated network and IT infrastructure solution. Mr. Ryan joined MFN from SiteSmith, a company that he co-founded in 1999 and ultimately sold to MFN in a deal valued at $1.4 billion. Prior to co-founding SiteSmith, Mr. Ryan was Vice President of Professional Services for GlobalCenter, a pioneer in the
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Dan is a General Partner at Trinity Ventures, a top tier VC dedicated to investing in early stage entrepreneurs. Dan founded Flurry, the leading user analytics platform for mobile applications. Prior to Flurry, Dan began his career as employee number two at Wily Technology (acquired by CA) where he built the first version of the company’s application performance management product and then helped sell it to many of Wily’s Fortune 500 clients. Dan also worked at SVB Capital where he made venture investments in software and Internet services companies. He was recently dubbed “Cloud Father”
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Ben Sharma is the Principal and Co-founder of Zaloni. Ben focuses on Go-to-Market strategy and Business Development for Large Enterprise Accounts. He has over 19 years of experience with Infrastructure and Enterprise Software Development. Prior to Zaloni, Ben was managing development of Storage and Network Management applications with NetApp and Ciena. Ben holds two patents on Infrastructure Provisioning and Management of Optical Networks. Ben has a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas.