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27 www.ceotodaymagazine.com CEO Today USAAwards 2017 CALIFORNIA Mike Waas founded Datometry, Inc. in 2013 with the vision of redefining enterprise data management. Datometry’s first-of-its-kind Adaptive Data Virtualization technology provides enterprises with the fastest and simplest path to adopting cloud-first strategies quickly and effectively. As one of the world’s top domain experts on databases, Mike has had a distinguished career both in academia and technology companies for over 20 years. Prior to founding Datometry, he held key engineering positions at Microsoft, Amazon, Greenplum, EMC, and Pivotal where he worked on some of the commercially most successful database systems with a special focus on query optimization and query processing. Mike has been recognized for heading up the development of Greenplum’s ambitious query engine, Orca, which has set new standards for MPP systems. Orca is available as part of the open source distribution of Greenplum Database and is widely used in enterprise database products including Pivotal Greenplum, Pivotal HAWQ, Alibaba ApsaraDB, and as a teaching platform in data science academia. Mike holds an M.S. in Computer Science from University of Passau, Germany, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He has authored or co- authored more than 35 publications and holds 24 patents on data management. www.datometry.com ABOUT MIKE WAAS FIRM PROFILE Datometry’s AdaptiveDataVirtualization technology enables existingdatawarehouse applications to run natively and instantly on modern data warehouses without rewriting or reconfiguring the applications. This has enormous impact on the speed of adopting the latest cloud data warehouse technology and is fundamentally altering the dynamics of the USD 40 Billion database market. For enterprises, Datometry is the simplest and fastest path to the cloud, and for cloud service providers and database vendors, Datometry is the ultimate accelerator of adoption of their technology. Enterprises moving to the cloud are being held back by existing infrastructure investments, particularly, long-term investments in enterprise data management. The conventional approach, which requires enterprises to rework and rewrite their application stack to take advantage of new cloud data management technology, is extremely obstructive to innovation and economically not viable. Says Mike Waas, “At Datometry, we have solved one of the hardest problems that enterprises face when replatforming to a new data warehouse, namely that of re- writing and testing their custom application stack, which can take years, cost in the millions, and poses significant risk to the business. Our flagship product—Datometry Hyper-Q—enables enterprises to run their existing applications on the new data warehouse without rewriting them; thereby, completing the replatforming in weeks, not years. This means enterprises can accelerate the digital transformation of their IT infrastructure by eliminating the costs and risks of adopting new data management technology and realize significant savings, innovate faster, and increase the speed of business. The interest and traction we are seeing with Fortune 500 enterprises validates our vision and speaks to the timeliness of our technology.” He further adds that five years from now, he expects no one will connect an application to a database directly any more but technology like Datometry’s will become the ubiquitous data fabric in the enterprise managing all communications between databases and applications. Datometry is on the path of emerging as a standard for interoperability in the data space: enabling rapid adoption of data management technology with the enterprise maintaining total control of its most valuable asset, data. Datometry’s Series A funding round of USD 10 Million was led by Redline Capital with participation fromDell Technologies Capital and Acorn Pacific Ventures. The company is advised by several distinguished industry and academia experts including Robert Van Renesse, Principal Researcher at Cornell University and a serial entrepreneur, Joseph Hellerstein, the Jim Gray professor computer science at the University of California at Berkeley and also a serial entrepreneur, and Sanjay Krishnamurthi, Partner and Chief Architect Azure Information Management at Microsoft. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and partners with leading cloud service providers and database vendors including Amazon Web Services, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft, Pivotal among others. MIKE WAAS Founder & CEO Datometry, Inc.