Bradford Stephens: CEO/Founder (Microsoft, Visible Technologies)

Bradford founded Drawn to Scale with the dream of helping people use data instead of struggle with infrastructure. After seeing dozens of companies trying to design a fully-functional distributed database from the ground up, he knew that someone had to solve the problem of making web-scale data accessible. Bradford uses his experiences from distributed computing, politics, and entrepreneurship to set strategy and drive the team forward.

His passion for scalability is reflected in many talks at conferences, articles, and on the Program Committee for O'Reilly and GigaOm conferences. Prior to this, he was Lead Platform Engineer at Visible Technologies, a Social Media BI company. Bradford also spent time at Microsoft (SQL Server team), in politics (Presidential and U.S. House campaign manager), and music (metal guitar). He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Political Science. His blog on scalability can be found at Road to Failure, and is @LusciousPear on Twitter.

Ryan Rawson: VP, Engineering (Amazon, Google, StumbleUpon)

Ryan is one of the primary architects of HBase. From early days at Amazon.com working on synchronous cross-datacenter distributed business logic, to a DoubleClick competitor at Google, and then to distributed data storage at Stumbleupon, Ryan has kept "failure is not only likely but probable" a key maxim in mind. Currently working on distributed data storage with HBase, he is also well versed in large scale Java tuning and deployment.

Dave Spenhoff, VP Marketing (Sun, Veritas, MarkLogic)

Dave has a legacy of building thriving technology businesses. At Sun, he led the product marketing efforts that positioned Solaris as the preferred enterprise operating system (SunSoft) and transformed Java into the development platform of choice for the enterprise (JavaSoft). These crucial results helped establish Sun as the leader in enterprise and Internet computing. At Veritas, Dave consolidated product lines developed internally and acquired through M&A into a market dominating storage management solution that redefined its category and enabled spectacular sales growth. Recently Dave has helped emerging companies, including Inxight and MarkLogic, define and launch successful go-to-market strategies.

John Overton, VP, Business Development (Akamai, Coradiant)

John has a long history in the Enterprise Data Infrastructure space. From Art Technology to Coradiant to Akamai, he has overseen many high-value strategic partnerships and excels at articulating business value for deep technical products. In conjunction with AT&T, John rolled out an internal Knowledge Management system that fed content to an external Self-Service site starting with 1500 and then expanded to 40,000 of AT&T Wireless/Cingular call center reps and over 50,000 knowledge articles. This dedication to project management, security, and value served him well as leader on several of Akamai's cloud initiatives.

Joe Stump: Advisor (Digg, SimpleGeo)

Geva Perry: Advisor (Heroku, Twilio, GigaSpaces)

Bradford Cross: Advisor

Bradford is co-founder and head of research for FlightCaster, where he is responsible for the statistical learning and supporting architecture that power Flightcaster's predictive algorithms.

Bradford has been doing applied research since 2001. His interests are in Maths, Statistics, Computer Science, Learning Theory, Network Theory, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing, and engineering at scale. Prior to Flightcaster, Bradford spent 2 years working on book search, scalable job scheduling, and social networking at Google and learning agile and lean development at ThoughtWorks. Prior to ThoughtWorks/Google, Bradford began his research work in the hedge fund business, where he developed statistical trading strategies and the underlying software infrastructure.

Rich Miller: Advisor

For the bulk of his career, Rich has focused on messaging technologies, middleware and distributed application platforms, first as a system architect and then as a business strategist and operating executive. He is a frequent speaker on cloud computing, and participates in a number of industry initiatives dedicated to cloud system interoperability.

Rich is President of Telematica, Inc., a holding company and consultancy with a practice in product strategy and business development for cloud computing and networked technologies. Rich most recently served as CEO of Replicate Technologies, Inc., a provider of configuration management technology for virtualized data centers. Prior to Replicate, he co-founded and served as COO of Univa Corporation (now Univa UD), a provider of high performance computing and datacenter management systems. Rich’s career as technologist, consultant, executive, and an early investor has focused on the formation of technology companies and their offerings that provide wireless network infrastructure, enterprise messaging utilities and application service infrastructures.

Randy Smerik: Advisor

Randy Smerik is an experienced serial entrepreneur, with over 20 years’ experience in mobile, networking, database systems, transaction processing, and semi-conductors.

Randy’s background and experience includes: VP/GM of LSI Corp’s Networking business which he led after LSI acquired his company Tarari, Inc. Randy was the Founder and President/CEO of Tarari which focused on software and silicon solutions for application-aware deep packet inspection (DPI). Before Tarari, Randy was General Manager of Intel’s Network Equipment Division, which he joined as part of the acquisition of IPivot, Inc., where Randy was the VP of Product Development/Marketing. Previous to iPivot, Randy was AVP running the Teradata Data Warehousing Division. Randy has also held executive and senior leadership positions at BEA Systems, NCR Corporation, and AT&T.

A frequent industry speaker in the areas of venture capital and entrepreneurship, Randy is an angel investor and advisor to a variety of startups, incubators, and investment organizations.