A technology executive with a passion for building new businesses by focusing on developing the ecosystems around them, most recently founding the OpenStack open source cloud platform and leading the Marketing & Business Development efforts to make OpenStack the ubiquitous cloud platform.
OpenStack is one of the fastest growing open source projects in history, due in large part to the focus on building a large and sustainable ecosystem of companies to contribute and build businesses around the software, starting with Rackspace and NASA and later adding Dell, HP, Red Hat, IBM, Cisco, Canonical, SUSE, and many others. This has been my primary focus, along with establishing the OpenStack ...