Top 10 ‘Friday’s Last Word’ Interviews With Cloud-Focused CEOs
We at Talkin' Cloud took a look back at 2014 to pull out the top 10 "Friday's Last Word" interviews from the bunch. Which ones did we pick? Click through the slideshow to find out.
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Top 10 ‘Friday’s Last Word’ Interviews With Cloud-Focused CEOs (2014)
We at Talkin’ Cloud took a look back at 2014 to pull out the top 10 “Friday’s Last Word” interviews from the bunch. Which ones did we pick? Click through the slideshow to find out.
“Friday’s Last Word” welcomes cloud-centric CEOs who are willing to speak with Talkin’ Cloud without someone peeking over a shoulder. Think you can handle sitting in the hot seat? Send an email to Talkin’ Cloud Executive Editor CJ Arlotta at cj.arlotta [at] penton.com for further information. If he doesn’t get back to you right away, bother him some more — and more.
CentraStage CEO Christian Nagele became the captain of the ship in 2007, sailing his cloud-based IT management technology company forward and into the wind. No matter if you’re an end user, a small business, a big business or a government department, CentraStage aims to assist all with managing IT. What was Nagele’s major in college? You’ll never guess (unless, of course, you personally know him).
Dimension Data CEO Brett William Dawson was appointed to the CEO role in March 2004, taking the company to nearly $6 billion in annual revenues by the end of fiscal 2012. He’s been with the IT services company since 1997, holding numerous positions throughout the years.
Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain is one of the co-founders of the cloud-based file sync, share and storage company. He brings more than 20 years of experience in building organizations with him.
Spanning CEO Jeff Erramouspe wasn’t always the CEO of a cloud-to-cloud backup company. Before being appointed CEO, Erramouspe served as chief revenue officer at Spanning, where he helped build a metrics-driven, content-based, technology-enabled marketing and sales process for the company.
Signiant CEO Margaret Craig has been in charge of keeping Signiant, a cloud company that assists businesses with the movement of large media files, on track since October 2011, when she was appointed to her current position.
RackWare CEO Sash Sunkara co-founded the Santa Clara, California-based managed computing software company back in 2009. In addition to being the company’s current CEO, she’s also a member of its board of directors.
Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst joined the open-source software solutions provider as CEO in 2008 to further innovate the Raleigh, North Carolina-based tech giant by taking advantage of his background in business development, finance and global operations.
Docker CEO Ben Golub has been leading the San Francisco-based open source platform provider since joining the company in April 2013. Most recently, he oversaw Docker’s Series C venture capital financing round of $40 million. The company plans to use the capital to drive the adoption of its platform in the enterprise and broaden its ecosystem of application developers, system administrators, platform providers and technology partners.
Parallels CEO Birger Steen has been leading the virtualization and automation software company’s efforts since 2010.
Parallels CEO Birger Steen founded the cloud hosting company with Ivo Tzenov in January 2014. The company’s technology is powered by optimized containers and distributed storage.
Parallels CEO Birger Steen founded the cloud hosting company with Ivo Tzenov in January 2014. The company’s technology is powered by optimized containers and distributed storage.
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