Case Western Reserve University

VP Marketing at OmniSci

Santa Clara, California, United States

OmniSci (formerly MapD) is the pioneer in accelerated analytics, enabling businesses and government to rapidly find insights in data beyond the limits of mainstream analytics tools. The platform, available in cloud, open source, and enterprise versions, harnesses the massive parallel computing of GPUs for breakthrough performance at scale.Responsible for OmniSci’s marketing strategy and execution, building and leading the team that fosters, nurtures, and enables demand for the OmniSci platform.

OmniSci

VP Marketing

Led the company’s largest event of 2016: the launch of the DC/OS project (DCOS.io) with 68 contributing partners. Beat adoption targets by 3x in the first 6 months; defined and hired the high-performance leadership team. Invited to sit on the Cloud Native Compute Foundation Governing Board (CNCF.io) representing Mesosphere.Sought-after speaker, including: ApacheCon 2016, QCon 2016 Workshop, All Things Open 2016, LinuxCon 2016

Mesosphere, Inc.

Head of Global Community

Bornlogic is a cloud-based adtech platform for micro-targeting social ads, and managing large sets of custom audiences.Setup the US subsidiary, signed the first US customers (Clorox & Nestle), and built the local team. Also defined and launched a multicultural version of the product specifically targeted at the US market.Still actively serving as an advisor to the company.

Bornlogic

Acting General Manager

SocialSamba was scripted social conversations - a ground-breaking SaaS platform that facilitated large-scale, automated conversations with fans in Twitter, Facebook, SMS and mobile apps.Customers signed: Fox, MTV, Turner, USA Network, Bravo, Warner Bros, HarperCollins, SymantecIndustry Recognition: 2013 & 2012 Emmy Nominee, 2014 TV of Tomorrow All-Star, 2012 Shorty Award Winner, 2012 SxSW Interactive Awards finalist- Increased fan response 4x and shares/retweets 10x by starting millions of individual, personalized conversations- Reduced cost of engagement 72% by focusing social management teams on high-value fansCampaign Examples:- USA Network’s “Hashtag Killer” where 350k fans spent 18M total minutes (14.2 min/visit) in fully scripted, choose-your-own-adventure-style conversations; 15% participated daily for all 7 weeks of the campaign- Fox’s “24” where engagement increased 9x, NTTR improved 5x and put the show in the Top 5- MTV’s “Teen Wolf: The Hunt” where fans responded 53 times on average across multiple platforms

SocialSamba

Co-Founder, CEO

The world leader in enterprise software and software-related services; a $36B market-cap company.Led international teams managing thousands of SAP partnerships, including technical and business relationships. Built the legal framework, process and collaboration platform that defined more than half of SAP’s SOA APIs. Decreased the cost of innovation by 10%, while accelerating new product adoption by 11 months.2006 & 2007 SAP High Potential Employee (top 2%)2006 SAP MVP Award for the success of ES CommunityPromoted four times, leading multiple diverse teams: engineering, operations, and business development

VP, Global Ecosystem and Partner Group

BizWorld (<a href="http://www.bizworld.org">www.bizworld.org</a>) is a hands-on program for grades 4-8, designed to add relevancy to academics, while improving each student's understanding of entrepreneurship and money management.  I am a volunteer instructor for the course, responsible for instructing and inspiring.

BizWorld

Volunteer Instructor

Sun was a silicon valley hardware and software pioneer, as well as the inventor and steward of the Java language and platform.Led Sun’s two Java Executive Committees, the business development relationship with its toughest competitors. Managed the PMO of the Java Community Process (<a href="http://www.jcp.org">www.jcp.org</a>), responsible for the strategy, operations and evolution of the corporate ecosystem around the Java platform.

Sun Microsystems

Senior Manager, Java Community Process

Picotent provided software and services to television networks globally, to enable interactive television productions on diverse platforms.Customers signed: Fox Sports (US), BBC (UK), Channel 10 (Australia), YLE (Finland)

Picotent

Led the technical side of many first-of-their-kind interactive television productions (wrote the code, integrated the technology into the broadcast room).  Was part of the team that successfully lobbied to make JavaTV the basis for global iTV standards, including DVB.

Aaron Williams