Scott Davis is a well-known, experienced technology executive, innovator and entrepreneur. His most recent, full-time roles were VP of Software Development at CDN vendor Limelight Networks where his responsibilities included all customer facing software products and before that EVP of Product Engineering & CTO at Embotics, an award-winning Cloud Management Platform company acquired by Snow Software where he drove that company’s pivot into Cloud Native Applications and DevOps. He is a vExpert, independent technology advisor, author and blogger. Davis spent 7 years at VMware, as Chief Technology Officer of the company’s End-User Computing Business Unit where he was instrumental in building that billion dollar business as well as serving as VMware's Chief Data Center & Storage Architect. A recognized expert & author on virtualization, clustering, cloud computing, file systems & storage, end user computing, multi-cloud management and cloud native applications, Mr. Davis has held senior engineering and business management roles during his career with both startup ventures and established industry firms. Notable earlier roles included President and Co-Founder of Virtual Iron Software, which was acquired by Oracle as the core of OracleVM and Digital Equipment Corporation where he began his career and eventually rose to Technical Director for the industry-acclaimed VAXCluster and VMS Volume Shadowing products, as well as founding DEC’s Windows NT clustering project (sold to Microsoft as the genesis of Microsoft ‘Wolfpack’ Cluster Server). Scott is an inventor with 21 patents spanning a variety of computer science disciplines and his products have won awards at VMworld, Demo, Linuxworld and Comdex. Specialties: CTO, VP of Engineering, Technical Architect, Executive Management and Leadership, Business Development, Product Management, Competitive Analysis, Marketing and Strategy, Public Speaking/Press/Analysts, Patent Process