Team

Apcera has a stellar team, with talent from Google, Twitter, Square, Microsoft, VMware, and TIBCO. We have expertise in cloud platforms, distributed systems, operations, and highly scalable systems.

Derek Collison

Apcera Founder and CEO. Former VMware, Google and TIBCO.

Jan Plutzer

Apcera COO, former SVP Global Sales Operations at TIBCO.

Mark Coffman

Business Development & Sales. Former Apptio, Endeca, TIBCO, Oracle.

Brady Catherman

Software engineer and SRE, former Googler and Twitter engineer.

Ken Robertson

Software engineer with deep experience in cloud architecture.

Pete Ohler

Architect for high performance systems, former TIBCO and KVH.

Justin Smith

Security, Identity and Product, formerly of Google and Microsoft.

Eric Case

Operations & Dev, former Rdio & Google, co-founded Domainr.

Priya Chawla

Product Marketing, Stanford grad, formerly of VMware and SUN.

Phil Pennock

Unix systems & Exim hacker, former Google SRE, Twitter.

Cameron Walters

Software engineer, founding team of Square and Domainr.

Jonathon Klobucar

Software engineer and big data hacker, formerly of Rdio.

Olivia Marshall

Culture Lead and EA, formerly of Gastronaut and Community Grains.

Anna Lu

Associate Product Marketing. Storyteller, Johns Hopkins grad.

Daniel Moroz

Kleiner Perkins Engineering Fellow, Summer 2013.

Sameer Kalwani

Sales and Marketing, HBS, former Deloitte, co-founded Sarvajal.

Alex Toombs

Software engineer, EEWeb columnist and Notre Dame grad.

Advisors

James T. Powell is the Chief Technology Officer for Thomson Reuters. In his 14 years at Reuters, Powell has held a number of senior leadership positions including CTO for Enterprise; CTO and global head of product development; head of technology strategy; and CTO for the Reuters Financial division. He has also held senior leadership positions at Solace Systems, Citadel Investment Group and TIBCO Finance Technology.

Tom Williams is an independent board director and strategic advisor. In his decades of experience, he has been a founder, senior executive, and advised many startups in traditional IT, Digital Media, Consumer Internet, and Healthcare Systems. He has also held senior leadership positions at Cisco, Novell, and Memorex.

Adrian Cockcroft is a well known technologist, cloud architect, blogger and speaker who was listed as one of the "top 10 people in cloud" in 2012. He was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and at eBay, and joined Netflix in 2007. Adrian is advising Apcera in his personal capacity.

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