Scott Dietzen is a Board Member at Redis. Colleagues describe them as "I hooked up with Scott when I was looking for a distributed queuing system and threads package (before threads were available in Unix). To say Scott is a brilliant technologist just scratches the surface. He is perhaps the smartest technical evangelist and product visionary I have ever met. I have been tracking his career and I am not at all surprised that he was responsible for launching ground-breaking and hugely successful, technology companies. Helluva nice guy, with great integrity." and "I worked with Scott at WebLogic and BEA Systems. From a more general perspective Scott was an exemplary CTO. Scott was non-stop in his traveling and evangelism and he was not only the voice of the product(s) that WebLogic and BEA offered, but he also was a great channel back to engineering for the customer and they issues they faced in the field. He was also a charismatic leader to the engineering teams. He was always there to provide feedback from the front lines of sales and support and to listen, encourage and guide product development. Scott bridged and balanced the external and internal challenges of the field and the engineering teams. Specifically I had the opportunity to work with Scott directly during my time in Customer Centric Engineering, mostly in the capacity as a technical pre-sales and integration role. I went with him to visit key strategic customers and business partners seeking to understand their needs for the products, answer questions and engage them on partnerships. Scott amazed me at his technical depth, and yet his capability to operate effectively from diving into the details and the the high level conversations as well. Scott was my definition of a perfect CTO, smart intelligent, driven and yet friendly, accessible and immediate."