At CTO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CTO’ operating in the Cloud Management space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.

Robert Osborn
TitleChief Technology Officer, Global Governments of ServiceNow
Bob Osborn is Chief Technology Officer – Federal for ServiceNow. Bob is an accomplished senior executive who has held many high level IT leadership positions, including director of Logistics IT for the U.S. Army G4, Deputy J6/CIO for U.S. Transportations Command, Deputy CIO at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and CIO of the National Nuclear Security Administration. He has led major IT and organizational transformations throughout his career and is a thought leader recognized across the public sector market. As a user of ServiceNow, Bob led ITIL based Enterprise Service Management standardization within the Department of Energy. Bob also served as a United States Marine Corps officer for 27 years.
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About ServiceNow: ServiceNow provides cloud-based solutions that define, structure, manage, and automate services for enterprise operations.

John Roese
Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Dell EMC
John Roese is Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at EMC Corporation. With revenues of $21.7 billion in 2012 and 60,000 people worldwide, EMC is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset—information—in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. As EMC’s CTO, Roese leads EMC’s Corporate Office of Technology, which is responsible for defining the company’s technology vision and strategy. In his role, he works directly with EMC’s executive team and leading technologists to shape EMC’s technology strategy as the company embarks on its next phase of growth and leadership across three of the most transformative trends in IT: Cloud, Big Data and Trusted IT. Roese has more than 20 years of industry experience, including executive leadership of large scale, complex, global R&D organizations. His extensive systems background includes technical expertise in a wide range of related disciplines including storage, servers, networking, hardware design, silicon development, software design, systems and applications. He joined EMC in October 2012 from Huawei Technologies, where he served as Senior Vice President & General Manager of the North American R&D Centers, responsible for advanced technology development across the entire product portfolio, including cloud computing and consumer technology. Before that, he held a series of senior leadership positions including CTO at Nortel Networks, Broadcom Corporation, Enterasys Networks, Inc. and Cabletron Systems. Roese earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. He holds more than 18 pending or granted patents in areas such as policy-based networking, location-based services and security. He has served on numerous boards, including ATIS, a leading ICT standards organization, OLPC, which aims to empower the world’s poorest children through education and access to a low-cost laptops, Blade Networks, now part of IBM System Networking, Pingtel, which delivers Unified Communication solutions and Bering Media, which focuses on location-based advertising.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.

Pere Monclus
VP & CTO Network and Security BU of VMware
Pere Monclus is the VP & CTO of Network and Security BU at VMware. Additionally, Pere Monclus has had 1 past job as the Founder and CTO at PLUMgrid.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Andrew Babakian
Principal Engineer, Networking & Security – Office of the CTO, Global Field of VMware
Andrew Babakian is a principal engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tom Hite
Sr. Director, Accelerated Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE), Office of the CTO of VMware
Tom Hite is the Sr. Director, Accelerated Co-Innovation Engineering (ACE), Office of the CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jason Hsieh
IT CTO of VMware
Jason Hsieh is the IT CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.

Joe Kinsella
CTO, CloudHealth of VMware
In his role as Chief Technology Officer and Founder of CloudHealth Technologies, Joe Kinsella focuses on CloudHealth’s vision to enable organizations to realize the full potential of cloud computing without having to sacrifice cost, availability, continuity, or service level. He sees CloudHealth bringing the cloud to the enterprise in a new paradigm of cloud adoption with IT service management for the cloud. Joe has 20+ years of experience in delivering commercial software for both startups and large enterprises. He was previously VP of Engineering at the Amazon-backed cloud archiving company Sonian, where he developed and managed large scale cloud infrastructure spanning multiple public clouds. He was also a managing director at Dell, where he led global engineering teams delivering multiple software as a service (SaaS) products. Joe was also Vice President of Engineering at SilverBack Technologies, where he helped pioneer remote management software, acquired by Dell in 2007. He is an advisor to the University of Massachusetts Boston Entrepreneur Center, and blogs at High Tech in the Hub.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Constantine Polychronopoulos
VP and CTO, Telco/NFV of VMware
Constantine Polychronopoulos is Vice President and CTO of the Telco/NFV business unit at VMware driving the company’s innovations in the NFV, SDN and telco cloud infrastructure domains. Previously, he served as Vice President and CTO, at Citrix Systems responsible for the Bytemobile product line, the SDN/NFV strategy, and for the expansion of the Netscaler ADC, into the service provider markets. In 2000 he founded Bytemobile, Inc., the global leader in wireless network optimization and data services, which he grew to about 350 employees and over 160 mobile network operator customers, before it was acquired by Citrix Systems in 2012. At Bytemobile he served on the BOD and was the CTO, responsible for all products (establishing and leading development teams in four sites), expansion strategy, M&A, go-to-market planning and led sales in several strategic accounts. Among his many innovations were the first streaming video optimization platform, deployed in more than 100 operator networks world-wide, novel analytics solutions, and a framework that enabled Bytemobile to optimize encrypted traffic. Before founding Bytemobile he was Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and director of the Center for Supercomputing R&D, where he directed the research of more than 70 PhD and MS students, and conducted research that produced novel solutions for compilers, operating systems and networking protocols, including the first cloud computing platform in 1999, the Computational Network Federations. Dr. Polychronopoulos’ research results have been used in commercial software and hardware systems by Intel, Cray, Silicon Graphics, Convex, HP, and other high performance software and networking system vendors. He holds 10 patents and has published more than 160 research papers on multithreading compilers, OS, distributed and cloud computing, wireless networks and mobile computing. Seven of his publications have received “Best Paper” awards at ACM and IEEE conferences. He has consulted extensively for many software and hardware companies including Intel, IBM, Silicon Graphics, HP, Kubota, NKK etc. Dr. Polychronopoulos has received various awards and recognitions including the 1989 National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award by President George Bush, the 1998 Bodossaki Foundation Award in Engineering, and was named a Pascal Chair at the University of Leiden in 2000 and a Fijitsu Endowed Professor at the University of Tokyo in 1992. In 2015 he was named one of the 50 innovators of the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Illinois, and in 2010 was named among the “Power 50” in wireless industry by Wireless Today magazine in the UK. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, his MS in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University and his BSc in Math/CS from the University of Athens.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.

Nicola Acutt
Vice President, Sustainability Strategy – Office of the CTO of VMware
Nicola Acutt, vice president of sustainability strategy, office of the chief technology officer, at VMware.
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About The Aspen Institute, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Marc Fleischmann
CTO of VMware
Marc Fleischmann is the CTO at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Greg Lavender
SVP & CTO of Cloud Architecture of VMware
Greg Lavender serves as senior vice president and CTO of Cloud Architecture at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.

Dennis Moreau
Senior Engineering Architect for CyberSecurity and Compliance – OCTO of VMware
Dennis Moreau is a Senior Engineering Architect at VMware, focusing on security innovation in highly dynamic utility computing environments. Moreau has over three decades of experience in the representation, visualization, analysis and control of complex system behavior and security. He has been a Sr. Technology Strategist at EMC/RSA, a founder/CTO of Configuresoft (now a VMware technology), the CTO Baylor College of Medicine, and a tenured Computer Science faculty member, with research sponsored by NASA/Jet Propoulsion Laboratories, Bell Laboratories, IBM, the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine and the National Science Foundation. He holds a doctorate in Computer Science and speaks regularly at security conferences worldwide.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Amanda Blevins
Sr. Director & Chief Technologist, Office of the CTO of VMware
Amanda Blevins, Chief Technologist in the Office of the CTO at VMware, ensures the success of customers and partners through customer intimacy, field engagement, and unifying R&D. She leads the Office of the CTO Global Field and CTO Ambassador Programs to bring innovation and change to VMware. She has successfully run programs that develop stronger partnerships with VMware customers and programs that enable VMware employees on technology, trends, and customer experiences.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Simon Kofkin-Hansen
CTO, IBM Cloud of VMware
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About IBM, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Richard Brunner
CTO, Server Platform Technologies of VMware
Richard Brunner is a principal engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.

Ray O’Farrell
EVP & CTO of VMware
Ray O’Farrell joined VMware in April 2003 and leads engineering efforts companywide, bringing more than 20 years of software development and leadership experience. During his tenure at VMware, O’Farrell led the VMware ESX Storage teams during the early development of the ESX platform and has held a variety of engineering positions, including several months as acting general manager for the VMware vSphere product division. Prior to VMware, O’Farrell managed teams of up to 1,000+ that developed compilers, development tools and operating systems focused on real-time, embedded and DSP systems at a number of companies including Industrial and scientific Imaging (Ireland), Ashling Microsystems (Ireland), Improv systems (United States) and Microtec/Mentor-Graphics (United States), where he spent 10 years in various roles including principal engineer and senior director of engineering. O’Farrell holds a bachelor of engineering in electronics and a masters of engineering in computer science, both from the University of Limerick in Ireland.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Niran Even-Chen
Principal SE, Office of the CTO, Global field of VMware
Niran Even-Chen is a principal systems engineer at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Mitesh Pancholy
Principal Architect & CTO Ambassador of VMware
Mitesh Pancholy serves as principal architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Christos Karamanolis
Fellow, CTO Storage & Availability of VMware
Christos Karamanolis joined VMware in 2005. He was appointed as a VMware Fellow in 2016 for his overall contributions to storage virtualization. He currently serves as the chief technology officer of the Storage and Availability Business Unit where he is in charge of strategy and technical product roadmap. Christos was one of the original vSAN architects who envisioned and developed the product, currently the fastest growing business in VMware’s product portfolio. He is still actively involved in the architecture and development of the product. During his tenure with VMware, he has worked on the ESXi storage stack and led a number of projects including VMware’s vSphere Replication, Virtual Volumes and Storage Policy-Based Management. He also works with strategic industry partners to architect storage and data protection features and APIs that enable a rich product ecosystem for VMware customers.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jad El-Zein
Principal Architect, CMBU Office of the CTO of VMware
Jad is a Principal Architect in VMware’s CMBU’s Office of the CTO. As Principal Architect, Jad focuses on driving strategy and vision of VMware’s Cloud Management and emerging technologies. Jad has over 19 years of experience in IT, including an 11-year tenure with Lockheed Martin Corp, and has spent much of the last 9 years focusing on datacenter optimization and emerging cloud technologies.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Anoop Jalan
Staff SE, CTO Ambassador of VMware
Anoop Jalan is a Staff SE, Team Lead, and CTO Ambassador with VMware, and has been with VMware for more than ten years. Anoop has more than 20 years of experience in IT. He has worked as an architect, a consultant, an engineer, a trainer, developer, an author, and probably a few other things that he has since forgotten (including a VERY brief stint as a sports writer). Anoop holds a number of industry certifications and speaks regularly at local regional and national events.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Joel Leichnetz
Director, Business Development; Office of the CTO of VMware
Joel Leichnetz serves as director of business development at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Salim AbiEzzi
Director R&D, IoT OCTO of VMware
Salim AbiEzzi, Ph.D., is Director of R&D in the Industrial Standards Office (INSO) at VMware. Salim represents VMware on IoT consortia and standard groups. He is a founding member of the EdgeX Foundry and a member of the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC). In his 34+ year career, Salim led a wide variety of technology development projects including at Sun Microsystems and Microsoft with dozens of publications and patents. Related to IoT, Salim was the founding chairman of the UPnP consortium in the fall of ‘99, leading it for four years into a successful international organization, today with more than two billion certified devices.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Chris Gully
Staff System Engineer, Office of the CTO of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Rafael Brito
Application Platform Architect – Office of CTO of VMware
Rafael Brito serves as an application platform architect at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Rick Clark
Field CTO of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nathan Hudson
Office of the CTO, Ambassador of VMware
Nate Hudson serves as an ambassador at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Shawn Bass
CTO – End-User Computing of VMware
Shawn Bass serves as CTO of End-User Computing at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Rick Clark
Field CTO of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Steve Tilkens
Staff Technical Account Manager, Lead & CTO Ambassador of VMware
Steve Tilkens serves as a staff technical account manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.

Mark Reed
CTO of Syxsense
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About Syxsense: IT management and security solution that combines Vulnerability Scanning, Patch Management and EDR capabilities
Jay Smith
Founder & CTO of Webscale
Jay Smith founded Webscale in 2012 and currently serves as the Chief Technology Officer of the Company. Jay received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Colorado State University in 2008. Jay has co-authored over 30 peer reviewed articles in the area of parallel and distributed computing systems. In addition to his academic publications, while at IBM, Jay received over 20 patents and numerous corporate awards for the quality of those patents. Jay left IBM as a Master Inventor in 2008 to focus on High Performance Computing at DigitalGlobe. There, Jay pioneered the application of GPGPU processing within DigitalGlobe.
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About Webscale: Webscale is a multi-cloud SaaS tool that provides access to technology enabling e-commerce businesses to automate their processes.

Jason McKay
SVP & CTO of Logicworks
Jason is responsible for leading Logicworks’ technical strategy including our software and DevOps product roadmap. In this capacity, he works directly with Logicworks’ senior engineers and developers, technology vendors and partners, and R&D team to ensure that Logicworks service offerings meet and exceed the performance, compliance, automation, and security requirements of our clients. Prior to joining Logicworks in 2005, Jason worked in technology in the Unix support trenches at Panix (Public Access Networks). Jason graduated Bard College with a Bachelor of Art and holds all five AWS associate and professional-level certifications.
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About Logicworks: Logicworks provides cloud computing and managed hosting solutions for private, public and hybrid clouds.
Vince Padua
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer of Axway
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About Axway: Axway provides multi-enterprise cloud integration and API and identity management software.
Brian Soby
CTO and Co-Founder of AppOmni
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About AppOmni: AppOmni is a SaaS security management solution that enables security and IT teams to secure applications used by their employees.
Jayesh Sahasi
CPO & CTO of ON24
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About Alchemist Accelerator, Band of Angels, ON24, ON24, Wharton Alumni Angels: ON24 is a cloud-based Platform that makes easy to create, scale, and personalize engaging experiences to take leads to revenue.
Todd Kesselman
Founder & CTO of Taloflow
Todd Kesselman is Partner at PICO Venture Partners
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About PICO Venture Partners, Precision Capital Advisors, Taloflow: Find the best cloud and dev tools for your use case

Karthik S
CTO & Founder of Cloud Kinetics
Prior to founding CK, Karthik was part of the WorldWide Cloud Services group at Citrix, helping Telcos, ISPs and Enterprises design, build, deliver, and manage an Infrastructure cloud to their end-users, using the Cloudstack orchestration platform. Led the Infrastructure Management Practice at CSS Corp (2008-11). Consulted with key customers such as BT , London on Data Center & Cloud projects. As part of Global Network Services team at BiogenIdec (Cambridge, MA), 2003-08 & BT’s INS Consulting services (Boston, 99-2003) key focus areas were Network Management & Performance optimization. Consulted with Telcos such as Verizon, Qwest Telecom, CTC Communications etc. Areas of interest are IT Infrastructure Management & Security. Is a Certified Cloud Architect, and professional education from Harvard University Extension School. Professional education includes a degree in Chemical Engineering from BITS, Pilani.
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About Cloud Kinetics: Cloud Kinetics is a Digital Transformation Technology company enabling clients to unlock the power and flexibility of Cloud.

Henry Peter
Co-founder & CTO of Ushur
Henry Peter brings his expertise in cloud-based communications technology to create beautiful and frictionless interactions. His detailed analysis of complex problems ensures his team builds intuitive and scalable software. Henry was previously the software architect for VoIP at Dialogic, and prior to that Systems Architect at Veraz, which followed on from six years at Lucent as part of a team of pioneers in software call routing and processing.
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About Ushur: Ushur is a cloud-based AI company that automates service workflows in both the backend process and conversational interfaces.

Richard Farrell
CTO of Netcall
Richard Farrell is CTO at Netcall.
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About Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.

Grant Kirkwood
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Unitas Global
Grant Kirkwood is the founder and CEO at Unitas Global, a worldwide provider of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and IT outsourcing solutions. The company’s mission is to serve companies needing IT infrastructure solutions delivered as a fully-managed service. Prior to founding Unitas Global, Grant Kirkwood served as CTO at PacketExchange, a global network service provider with 65 points of presence throughout North America, Europe and Asia. As CTO of PacketExchange, Grant Kirkwood oversaw all aspects of its technology vision and execution, driving towards the successful execution of the company’s business objectives and customer commitment. Prior to PacketExchange, Grant Kirkwood was the founder and CTO at Mzima Networks. Created to serve the unique needs of media, entertainment and online content providers, Mzima operated a global IP backbone and built a reputation as the performance leader in Internet bandwidth solutions. Before founding Mzima in 2002, Grant Kirkwood was the CTO at Netixs, a managed hosting service provider. His entry into the Internet technology industry was in 1997, as one of the founding partners of Vision Imaging Internet, a web application development and infrastructure engineering consultancy. Grant Kirkwood is an accomplished speaker and industry analyst. He is passionate about the intersection of technology and people’s lives, and believes that the proliferation of technology and global communications can be harnessed to improve the quality of life of people around the world. He believes in the strength of a unified team working towards common objectives, and his management style encourages individual strengths and creativity. Grant Kirkwood currently serves as the chairman of the board at Web Wise Kids, a national non-profit dedicated to educating kids and their parents about Internet safety through a series of innovative, challenging games.
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About Unitas Global: Unitas Global is a platform=based managed network service provider connecting edge to cloud everywhere.
Rajeev Thakur
Co-Founder & CTO of RAPIDFORT
Rajeev Thakur has more than 20 years of experience in the Software development. He created a predictive analytics platform for the health system as VP Engineering at CareSkore (YC Company) & real-time threat sharing platform for SmartHive (SignalFire backed). He has delivered 50+ successful products to the market. He has been the co-founder of many startups & holds Bachelors in Computer Science from NIT Hamirpur. He has a passion to build scalable beautiful products that have a positive impact on how people live, play & work. He is currently the Co-Founder and CTO at RAPIDFORT.
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About RAPIDFORT, Stealth Mode Startup: RapidFort is a cloud-native cybersecurity company that helps clients optimize and secure their cloud workloads automatically.
Jeremy Albinet
Founder & CTO of Brainboard
Jeremy Albinet is the Founder & CTO of Brainboard.
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About Brainboard: Draw.io + Git + Terraform. Visually build & manage cloud infrastructures. Empower collaboration, enforce security and accelerate automation.

Ronan Weinberg Waks
Co-Founder & CTO of Compaas
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About Agora, Compaas: Compaas is a “Compliance as a service” auditing dashboard, that gives IT transparency and governance for corporate data across the cloud.
Tim Hinrichs
CTO and Co-founder of Styra
Tim Hinrichs serves as the CTO and Co-Founder at Styra.
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About Styra: Styra offers a platform that allows companies to enforce and monitor authorization policies across cloud-native applications.
Vishal Taneja
Co-Founder, CEO and CTO of Cloudshim
Vishal Taneja is the Co-Founder, CEO, and CTO at Cloudshim.
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About Cloudshim: Cloudshim is a one-stop shop for cloud management needs, helping users take control of their cloud.
Costantino Lattarulo
Co-Founder and CTO of Replex
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About Replex: Replex provides software solutions.

Chris DeRamus
Co-Founder / CTO of DivvyCloud
As COO, Chris is responsible for product operations and the customer experience. He is extremely passionate about ensuring our software, delivery and support processes align to create maximum value for our customers.
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About DivvyCloud: DivvyCloud automates the protection of cloud and container environments from misconfigurations, policy violations, and threats.

Richard Kilcoyne
Chief Technology Officer of CloudBolt
Richard Kilcoyne is the Chief Technology Officer, Chief Product Officer, and VP of Solutions Architecture at CloudBolt Software, a company that provides enterprise IT management software solutions. Kilcoyne was previously a vice president at Newsletters.com and MarketResearch.com. He also worked as an engineer at Millennial Media and Opsware and a scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory.
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About CloudBolt, Newsletters.com, NFL: CloudBolt is a software company that helps enterprises manage their hybrid cloud and optimize their automation strategy.
Ajay Manuja
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Benu Networks
Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering at Benu Networks.
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About Benu Networks: Benu Networks is a leading software and solutions provider, simplifying the industry’s most complex edge networks.
Raj Kosuri
CEO and CTO of EcomNets
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About EcomNets: Leader in Global Green IT Solutions – Cloud Enablement | Data Center Solutions

Damien Tournoud
Founder and CTO of Platform.sh
Damien is the technology leader at Commerce Guys. He is one of the top architects and contributors to Drupal 7 and a key architect behind Drupal Commerce. He also leads the Drupal community in France. After graduating with his degree in Engineering from L’Ecole des Mines de Paris, Damien started as an IT strategy consultant in 2003 and joined af83 in 2008.
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About Platform.sh: Platform.sh is an end-to-end web platform that helps companies build, run, and scale their websites and apps.
Daniel O’Neill
Co-founder, CEO & CTO of NMLStream
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About NMLStream, Stanford University: NMLStream provides AI for information technology management.

Marc Maliza
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of RKON
Marc is responsible for the company’s overall technical vision and strategy. Since co-founding the company in 1998, he has played a key role in creating many of RKON Technologies’ products and professional service offerings, as well as building the company’s internal computing platform, which serves as the basis for our cloud and managed services portfolio. Prior to forming RKON, Marc was director of engineering at LAN Systems, where he was also responsible for launching a professional services practice at WorkGroup Productivity. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from University of Illinois and a master’s degree in telecommunications from DePaul University.
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About RKON: Since 1998, RKON has delivered IT Transformation helping private equity and corporations achieve Quiet IT from vision to execution.
Heath Hensley
Co-Founder & CTO of PowerDMS
Heath Hensley is the Co-Founder and CTO at PowerDMS. He attended the University of Central Florida.
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About PowerDMS: PowerDMS provides a cloud-based solution that helps organizations reduce risk and liability

David Estes
CTO of Morpheus Data
David Estes is the CTO at Company NameMorpheus Data | Hybrid-Cloud Management Platform.
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About Bertram Capital Management, Morpheus Data, Redwind Software: Morpheus Data is a multi-cloud management platform for hybrid IT and DevOps automation.
Gunnar Schaefer
Co-Founder at CTO of Flywheel.io
Gunnar Schaefer is the Co-Founder and CTO of Flywheel.io.
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About Flywheel.io: Flywheel.io is a data management and analysis platform built specifically for scientists and the researcher’s workflow.
Stephan Smith
Co-Founder & CTO of Meenta
Stephan is the founder and CTO at Meenta. He is a Boston based entrepreneur and full stack developer with extensive web, mobile, and systems design and development experience. Has extensive experience building development teams, system architecture and managing software through the planning, development and deployment.
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About Meenta: Our vision is to make all of the world’s scientific equipment and clinical tests accessible to everyone.
Matthew Wells
Co-Founder and CTO of Shujinko
From startups to Starbucks Matt’s seen and done a lot. Matt currently works as founder and CTO of Shujinko, a startup building a SaaS platform to help companies migrate applications to the cloud quickly, securely and in a compliant manner. Previously Matt worked as an engineering manager whose team was responsible for building and delivering Starbucks’ first highly secure public cloud platform. Prior to that Matt held several engineering roles focused on automating the delivery of highly secure and compliant private and public cloud platforms.
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About Shujinko: Shujinko is a software as a service (SaaS) that enables organizations to quickly build compliant environments.
Frank Febbraro
Founder and CTO of Phase2
With over 2 decades of industry and open source experience, I am a leader in helping transform what the worlds most influential organizations can achieve using technology. I have built organizations and cultures around the focused use and contribution to open source technology and data. My passion lies at the intersection of business challenges and technology innovation. As a founding partner and CTO at Phase2, my combination of inherent understanding and real world experience enables me to attack challenges with a creative eye. I pride myself on innovation and a market-focused approach making my ideas a powerful tool for Phase2 clients. Additionally, I play a significant role in determining the company’s technology vision and strategy.
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About Phase2: Phase2 is a digital agency whose work unlock the potential for anyone, anywhere to engage with the world’s most impactful organizations

Ben Johnson
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Legalinc
Ben Johnson is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Legalinc.
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About Legalinc, Particle41: Legalinc is a technology company that automates business services for attorneys, accountants, and small business service providers.
Adam Stern
CTO and co-founder of Dittach
Adam Stern is the CTO and co-founder of Dittach.
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About Dittach: Cloud and email storage management platform

Ethan Estrada
CTO of FullMeta Corporation
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About FullMeta Corporation: Cloud-based pipeline solutions for the VFX and Animation industry