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Chicago, Illinois, Us

Ocient develops and delivers the leading high-performance database and analytics platform for the world's largest datasets.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

P33 is transforming Chicago into a global top-tier Tech ecosystem.

Lemont, Il, Us

The Forge : Lemont Quarries Adventure Park is a public/private social enterprise offering engaging outdoor recreational activities that exhilarate, educate, and entertain adventurers of all ages and abilities. From ropes courses, ziplines and rock-climbing towers, to flatwater paddling, running, mountain biking, and hiking trails, our parks seek to provide a community-focused, authentic outdoor experience for urban and suburban audiences.

Started and grew Cleversafe to the leading provider of on-prem object storage systems. When IBM purchased the company for over $1.3 billion in 2015, we had 100% market share for on-prem object storage systems over 100PB.

- Created a new and significantly improved method to store and distribute the world’s data.- Grew Cleversafe from zero to $15 million in annual revenue as the largest, most capable and most strategic object storage vendor in the IDC 2014 Marketscape report. - Raised over $100 million from leading investors and venture capital firms, including New Enterprise Associates, OCA Ventures, Motorola Ventures, Lockheed Martin, Alsop Louie Partners, New World Ventures, and Christopher Galvin.- Defined a market position which led to feature articles in the New York Times, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, etc.- Established Cleversafe as a market leader with over 20 industry awards, including The Wall Street Journal’s selection as the Software Innovation of the Year (Worldwide).- Wrote the first proof-of-concept software prototype of the Cleversafe Dispersed Storage network and was the initial inventor behind this new technology.- Lead Cleversafe to one of the 10 most powerful patent portfolios in the world (according to IEEE Spectrum) with over 1,000 patents granted or filed. Named Inventor on over 100 awarded patents.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Developed the first multi-provider cloud storage service. Also developed the world’s largest NFS Filer.

- Developed and launched nationally-recognized music subscription services under the brand MusicNow with 100,000 paying customers, including 20,000 monthly subscribers.- Lead the creation of the first “service right” for the distribution of digital music. Secured many of the first licenses in the industry for music services from all five major music companies (BMG, EMI, Universal, Sony and Warner) and leading independents.- Worked with members of the U.S. Senate, the California State Assembly, the Recording Industry Association of America, other digital music companies and major record label and publishers to develop policies for the licensing of digital music and the enforcement of these rights.- Secured and implemented distribution partnerships with Best Buy, Charter Communications and Microsoft and exclusive partnerships with ClearChannel and Earthlink.- Raised $41 million in three major rounds of venture capital financing from leading investors, including New Enterprise Associates.- Inventor on 14 patent applications related to media subscription services. (MusicNow filed a total of 18 patent applications.) Circuit City acquired MusicNow in 2004; AOL acquired the company in 2005 and grew MusicNow to a $100+ million profitable business.

Cruise Technologies was the dominant developer of Wireless Thin Clients. This technology, including over 20 patents, is now owned by NEC Corporation.

Us

Zenith Data Systems was a leading provider of personal computers.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Martin Marietta was a leading defense contractor which has since merged into Lockheed Martin.

Bs, Mechanical Engineering

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Honorary Doctor Of Science, Computer Science

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