Bob has built a career living at the intersection of business and technology delivering innovative capability leveraging advanced technologies. Currently Bob is working in the fast growing Cloud market with specific focus on the Edge of the Cloud architectures and solutions. Over his 35 year career Bob has held senior executive positions in both large and small companies including senior management roles at both IBM and Andersen Consulting. Interwoven into this experience, Bob has co-founded and launched two (2) startup companies and assumed the CEO responsibilities at a third. Currently he is CTO at YottaStor, a commercial cloud solution company, delivering enterprise IoT platform capabilities targeted at machine generated data market segments. Bob is an accomplished presenter delivering keynote addresses at various industry forums for organizations such as Gartner, IDC, and AFCEA. He recently delivered the keynote presentation at the Next Gen Object Storage Conference held in San Francisco. In addition, Bob has published numerous articles in both business and technical magazines and has been awarded 2 US Patents