Structure

I am a partner in the Corporate and Venture Capital Group at Fenwick & West.

Ash Ashutosh brings more than 25 years of storage industry and entrepreneurship experience to his role of CEO at Actifio.

Ashar Baig (pronounced Usher Bég) is the Research Analyst and Director at Gigaom.

Peter is CEO/Co-Founder of DataScale, the cloud transparent Big Data as a Service platform that enables customers to build analytics solutions quickly.

Sally Bament is an accomplished 20-year marketing veteran in the networking, telecommunications and clean-tech industries, with extensive operational and strategic leadership experience ranging from small startups to large cap market leaders.

After obtaining his PhD in Electrical Engineering, Alan Barbieri spent two years in academia, holding associate professor and post-doc positions in world-renowned universities, before moving to the industry where he spent five years doing research and development in the field of wireless communications and networking.

Jodok is Co-Founder and CEO of Crate and has a decade of experience with Big Data and Open Source.

Seth M. Bostock CEO, IndependenceIT Mr. Bostock is responsible for guiding IndependenceIT’s vision and strategy.

Diane M. Bryant is senior vice president and general manager of the Data Center Group for Intel Corporation.

Tamara Budec is the Vice President Portfolio Operations at Digital Realty, where she runs the Data Center Services function.

Bryan Cantrill is the CTO at Joyent, where he oversees worldwide development of the SmartOS and SmartDataCenter platforms, and the Node.js platform.

David Card has been following the intersection of technology, media, and consumer behavior 20+ years at GigaOM Pro, Jupiter Research, IDC and Forrester.

Antonio Carlos Soares has been leading cloud-enabled companies for the last 7 years.

Adrian Cockcroft has had a long career working at the leading edge of technology.

Lance Crosby is the founder and visionary behind SoftLayer, an IBM Company. He is responsible for managing the overall success and growth of the company.

Mike is the VP of Engineering at Airbnb, he is responsible for delivering simple, elegant ways to find and stay at the most interesting places in the world.

As CEO of IDmachines Sal provides technology and services to identity, credentialing, access, security, machine learning and technology transfer markets and customers.

Barb has covered technology and high-tech companies for longer than she’d care to admit.

Francis, President of Illumina appointed in 2013, and leads Illumina’s business units and core functions responsible for envisioning, developing and producing the company’s products.

Sumit Dhawan is Vice President and General Manager of VMware’s End User Computing desktop business.

Sameer Dholakia is group vice president and general manager of the Cloud Platforms group at Citrix, driving the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization.

German is Founder and CEO of GOintegro, the leading HR engagement cloud platform in Latin America used by more than 300 corporate companies, representing 1 million employees.

President of Endeavor Global, an organization that supports over 500 entrepreneurs who generate combined revenues of US$6 billion and over 250,000 jobs (2012). We have offices in 44 cities around the world.

Bill Fathers joined VMware as senior vice president and general manager of the newly-formed Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit in March 2013.

Katie Fehrenbacher has been covering cutting-edge technology, startups and entrepreneurs for a decade.

Stephen Felisan joined Edmunds.com in 2005 and has played an important role in applying technological approaches in the reinvention of many key operational units within the enterprise.

As chief marketing officer, Trent Fitz is responsible for all aspects of global marketing and product strategy at NIMBOXX.

Scott Guthrie, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise group, is responsible for the company’s cloud infrastructure, server, database, management and development tools businesses.

Derrick has been a technology journalist since 2003 and has been covering cloud computing, big data and other emerging IT trends for Gigaom since 2009. He has written the words “cloud” and “Hadoop” possibly more than any other person on

Urs Hölzle is Senior Vice President, Technical Infrastructure & a Google Fellow.

Stacey is happy when immersed in SEC filings, tech specs or poking through a data center.

Mathew covers media in all its forms — social and otherwise — as well as web culture and related issues.

Rehan Jalil, President and CEO of Elastica, is a serial entrepreneur, limited partner in technology venture funds and advisor to few startups.

Luke founded Puppet and Puppet Labs in 2005 out of fear and desperation, with the goal of producing better operations tools and changing how we manage systems.

Dan Kaufman is the Director of the Information Innovation Office.

Chris C. Kemp is an entrepreneurial executive with a passion for igniting innovation in high-tech organizations.

Vinod Khosla is an entrepreneur, investor, and technology fan.

Tom is a veteran technology journalist, writer, and editor who has never worked in any other medium than the internet. He is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Gigaom’s editorial mission. Tom has written and edited stories about nearly everything

Raffi leads the Platform Services team at Twitter, who are the custodians of Twitter’s core logic and application infrastructure.

Craig Labovitz is Co-Founder and CEO of DeepField.

David Linthicum is Gigaom Pro’s cloud analyst, as well as a consultant with Cloud Technology Partners.

Paula brings over 30 years of experience to DataGravity in delivering game changing high-tech innovation. Prior to DataGravity, Paula served as vice president of product development at Heartland Robotics. In 2001 Paula co-founded storage provider EqualLogic, resetting the bar on

Om Malik has more than 15 years of experience as a journalist covering technology and business news.

Dr. Jai Menon serves as vice president and chief research officer leading Dell Research at Dell.

Marten Mickos is CEO of Eucalyptus Systems, the leader in open source cloud computing platforms for on-premise use.

Jamie Miller is Senior Vice President and CIO for GE.

Paul is an analyst and consultant, based in the Yorkshire (UK) market town of Beverley, and working with clients world-wide.

Leading the Beyond Verbal team, Yuval has more than 25 years of experience in managing early stage, hi-tech companies and taking them to successful exits – four in total.

Janakiram MSV is the Founder and Principal Analyst at Janakiram & Associates.

David Mytton is the founder of Server Density, a SaaS tool which helps you provision and monitor your infrastructure.

Rabih is the founder and CEO of Apstrata, a cloud platform that enables Mobile Operators to transform into App & API economy infrastructure suppliers.

Justin Nemmers is the Chief Evangelist at CloudBolt Software, Inc.

Tod Nielsen is the CEO of Heroku, a subsidiary of Salesforce.com.

Dave Ohara has spent his employment career at HP, Apple, and Microsoft working in manufacturing, distribution, purchasing, hardware and software product development, marketing and evangelism.

Jeffery Padgett (AKA “Padge”) is Senior Director, Infrastructure Architecture for Gap Inc.

Jay Parikh is vice president of infrastructure engineering at Facebook.

Mitch Parker leads Citrix’s imperative to build mobile workspaces delivered as a cloud service, including the strategic direction, product management, product development, product marketing, and revenue attainment.

Laila is a serial entrepreneur and Fortune 100 trained executive who is passionate about developing early stage ideas and technologies into compelling, executable businesses.

Matthew Prince is the co-founder & CEO of CloudFlare, the web performance and security company.

Assaf Rappaport is co-founder and CEO at Adallom, a Sequoia Capital and Index Ventures backed enterprise information security startup focused on extending IT purview to SaaS applications and protecting sensitive data through advanced risk-based behavioral threat detection.

An accomplished executive with a track record of applying technology innovation to address business challenges, Mike Redding is the Global Managing Director for Accenture Technology Labs, the dedicated technology research and development organization within Accenture.

Taylor Rhodes is President of Rackspace, responsible for all of the company’s operations in the U.S. and abroad.

Alexei Rodriguez leads technical operations for Evernote Corporation, the company that wants to help the world to remember everything and get things done.

As CEO and Co-Founder, Zack leads the charge to define what developers need now, and what they and their clients will need 5 years from now—and beyond.

Paul Santinelli joined North Bridge Venture Partners in February 2005 and is located in Palo Alto.

I am the head of Engineering and Technical Operations at Moz.

In his role at North Bridge Venture Partners, Michael partners with entrepreneurs helping them from inception to company to market leader.

Brad Smith is Microsoft’s general counsel and executive vice president, Legal and Corporate Affairs (LCA).

Brian Stevens joined Red Hat’s senior management team in 2001 and has been critical to the company’s enterprise operating system, storage, and virtualization strategies.

Zane M. Taylor is a Silicon Valley veteran with more than 30-years of industry experience managing Global Operations, Manufacturing and Sales for world-renowned companies including Cisco Systems, Exodus Communications, NetScaler, Citrix and FireEye.

Bill Veghte is EVP and GM of HP’s Enterprise Group, a $28 billion annual revenue business that includes server, storage, networking, technology services, and cloud technologies.

Dr. Werner Vogels is Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company’s technology vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Amazon’s customers at a global scale.

Cory von Wallenstein is the Chief Technologist of Dyn where he is the voice of the company’s technical vision and preeminent solution architect for customers.

Paul Walborsky brings two decades of entrepreneurial, financial, and executive expertise to Gigaom. A former Wall Street executive and founder of two companies, Paul has the unique ability to grow a disruptive business idea into a highly successful company. Prior

Joe Weinman has held executive leadership positions at Bell Labs, AT&T, Hewlett-Packard, and Telx, in areas such as corporate strategy, business development, product management, operations, and R&D.

Don Whittington is Vice President and CIO of Florida Crystals Corporation, a multi-national, vertically integrated sugar company, headquartered in West Palm Beach, Florida.

Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University as well as Chief Data Scientist at the New York Times.

Born in Cairo, Illinois and raised on the internet, Kyle is a lifelong programmer, product designer, and entrepreneur.

Jared Wray, Chief Technology Officer for CenturyLink Cloud, is an early cloud pioneer and visionary architect.

Scott Yara is the president and head of products at Pivotal.