Analyst Coverage: Virtualization Technologies, Future Trends in Software, IT Storage, Backup and Archiving, IT Security, CybersecurityHans van Rietschote worked for 10 years at Symantec (before that VERITAS) where he was the senior director of the Technology Scouting Group in the office of the CTO. In that role he scouted out and analyzed thousands of technology companies that were at the leading edge of innovation in areas such as Storage, Security, System Management and Virtualization. He also identified and continues to monitor the top ten technology trends that will have a serious impact on the software industry in the next 3-5 years. Before Symantec, he spent more than 10 years working at AT&T Bell Labs in the Netherlands. He has over 20 software patents filed in his name in the areas of virtualization, system and network management, and storage technologies. He has both an MS in mathematics and an MBA in telecommunications. His expertise lies in the areas of SaaS, Cloud Computing, Cloud Services, Cloud Storage, Virtualization for both the Enterprise data center and the desktop, Enterprise and Consumer Security, Enterprise and Consumer Backup and Enterprise and Consumer Storage technologies.

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Director of Technology ScoutingCreated the technology scouting process and executed it for thousands of companies and/or Open Source initiatives:* Define technology area – in concert with the product & strategic planning groups* Research from a number of sources including web, analyst reports, conferences, etc* Invite the company to hear their pitch* Get a (beta) evaluation copy of their product to check the functionality* Define and prototype how we can combine their technology with Symantec – in concert with the development/product teams. Some companies eliminated in this phase* Propose OEM or acquisition options -- provide the technical input to the acquisition or OEM business case. If acquisition, coordinate the technical due diligence. Two companies were acquired and two more were made offers but we received declines* Technology trend monitoring: monitor those technology trends that can have a significant impact on Symantec's business

Defined and introduced a new overall VERITAS product life cycle process. Created and introduced a new software product release process. Established, from the ground up, the VERITAS Linux kernel development group in London UK.

Member of the technical advisory board until they got bought by IBM

Technical advisory board member until they got acquired by Sun Microsystems

International Business Development Direcor. Embedded Software Services. Defining new and standardizing service offerings, pricing, international project support, strategic planning (Mergers and Acquisitions), creating new gloabl accounts, supporting Global account teams in major bids, creating and supporting Service Practices world-wide. I set up the new Origin embedded software services practice in California from scratch to more than $1 million revenue

Managing 30 software engineering researchers. Basic research in Computer Supported Colloborative and Process Technology. Consulting the software development groups in the product divisions of Philips on software process improvement/CMM. Software development Environments (SDE) and Software engineering education and training. Introduced Philips to the WWW.

Business management of all Network Cable System products used in turnkey projects for the telecommunication operators in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.

Grew AT&T Ukraine Account from $0 to $50M. Established the local AT&T representative office in Kiev. Established in-country production facilities for switching, transmission and fiber optic cable by setting up joint ventures in Ukraine. Responsible for arranging long term financing via barter trade, supplier credit, World Bank financing and ERBD loans. Providing leadship to the Ukraine account team (7 people). Contacts with the Dutch ministry of Economic affairs, the minister and deputy minister of telecommunication in Ukraine, Dutch embassy in Kiev, Dutch PTT, German Bundespost.

Several positions from 5ESS development engineer, SDE architect, Supervisor System Engineering, Department head 5ESS development Support, to Documentation & Training Center Director where I reorganized and grew the department from 40 to 120 people and grew revenue to 40,000 student days, while increasing customer satisfaction from unsatisfactory to excellent

Research into mathematical computer models for determining speech intelligibility in rooms. TNO is a goverment subsidized applied research center. My research was done under a special grant from the Dutch goverment.