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Adrian Havill aka Eido Inoue
Adrian Havill (aka Eido Inoue) is Vice President of Reazon Holdings. Adrian previously held leadership positions in engineering, consulting, and support at large enterprises such as Red Hat, Google, Rakuten. He also ventured off to run engineering at the gaming startup beBit, makers of Hado an innovative Augmented Reality game similar to dodgeball but where the players throw virtual fireballs at each other.
Alex Francoeur
Alex Francoeur is the Director of Product Management at Xata. Before that he was Director of Product at Elastic (covering the Kibana Platform) and Dynatrace. Alex has a passion for building great products, UX & design and making complex things simple. Outside of work he makes too many dad jokes, enjoys playing soccer and spending time with his family.
Ben Sabrin
Ben Sabrin, CRO at ngrok, is a recognized leader in disruptive technology markets across cloud, big data, open source and security. He has over 20 years of experience in building the business behind open source and cloud technologies at organizations including JBoss, MongoDB, Rackspace and ScaleFT/Okta.
Bobby Zeik
Bobby Zeik is a mixed-media painter whose style stems from a street art background while also implementing many fine art techniques and methods used in more traditional art. He is constantly experimenting with new mediums and processes that keep his work both original and also exciting.
Brad Murdoch
Brad Murdoch is what is euphemistically known as a “software industry veteran", meaning that he is able to bore you to death with tales about life in the tech industry prior to the internet.
Brad’s career was shaped early on by his epic failure as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard. His boss told him that “when it comes to software, you’re better talking about it than writing it”, so he embarked on trying everything else in the industry to see what would stick, including marketing, product management, professional services, business development, corporate strategy and bunch of management roles. Very germane to our podcast, two years as an enterprise sales guy doing his own pre-sales left him permanently scarred.
Since 2004, Brad has worked for 6 startups and is currently Executive Vice President of Strategy and Product at Lightbend, the company behind Akka, the open source distributed computing framework. You might not be aware of it but you probably used Lightbend software today if you ordered a Starbucks, watched Disney+, played Fortnite, checked your LinkedIn feed or are listening to this podcast on Spotify. Brad is also on the Board of Permission.io, where users truly own their data and get paid crypto for sharing it.
Brent Holden
Brent Holden is the Global Field CTO at HashiCorp, a company that delivers tooling for automation and workflows across infrastructure, security, networking, and runtimes. We help customers adapt to the shift from on-premise to multi-cloud computing and adopt a cloud operating model. Prior to HashiCorp, Brent served as the Chief Technologist for Red Hat North America Commercial Sales at Red Hat. He is passionate about bringing distributed computing into the world of DevOps tooling.
Brian Stevens
Brian Stevens is the CEO of Neural Magic, a Boston-based startup revolutionizing the software architecture of machine learning by creating sparse models that run on commodity CPUs at GPU speeds. Before joining Neural Magic, Brian was Vice President and CTO of Google Cloud and Executive Vice President and CTO of Red Hat.
Chad Tindel (He/Him)
Chad Tindel is a Principal NoSQL Solution Architect at Amazon Web Services. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo) as well as an MBA and MS Finance from the University of Denver. After 12 years of writing code professionally, Chad discovered that he really loved working with customers and has since worked at a slate of very successful companies as a Solution Architect: Red Hat, Cloudera, MongoDB, Prevoty, Elastic, and AWS.
Chase Armer
Dr. Chase Armer is the President of Planned Solutions. With nearly two decades of industry experience, Chase holds the CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™, Chartered Financial Analyst®, and Enrolled Agent designations. While not in the office, he remains active in the community by spending his time as acting as a board member for the Financial Planning Association of Northern California and contributing to the Sacramento Business Review. He is also a former instructor for the Personal Financial Planning Certificant program offered through the UC Davis Extension. Chase earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from CSUS, a Master’s of Science in Taxation and a Doctorate of Business Administration from William Howard Taft University. In his spare time, Chase stays active in supporting his kids’ gymnastics, soccer, and basketball programs. He also has a passion for reading, traveling, golf, and Star Wars.