Billy Bosworth
Chief Executive Officer
Billy is responsible for the strategy, explosive growth, and day-to-day operations of DataStax. He has 20 years of experience in the database industry in roles ranging from DBA to senior executive. Prior to DataStax, Billy spent 6 years at Quest Software, a provider of systems management software, where his most recent role was VP and GM of the database business unit. Under his leadership, the industry-leading Quest database business grew from supporting traditional relational databases to a portfolio that now includes tools for cloud, NoSQL, columnar, and Hadoop databases, as well as business intelligence offerings. Prior to Quest, Billy led product teams for Embarcadero Technologies' database productivity solutions. Billy holds a bachelor of science in computer science from the University of Louisville.
Jonathan Ellis
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder
As Chief Technology Officer and co-founder at DataStax, Jonathan sets the technical direction for the company and leads Apache Cassandra as project chair. Prior to DataStax, Jonathan led Rackspace's Cassandra team and built the Cassandra community into an open source success. Previously, Jonathan built an object storage system based on Reed-Solomon encoding for data backup provider Mozy that scaled to petabytes of data and gigabits per second throughput.
Matt Pfeil
Vice President of Customer Solutions & Co-Founder
Matt is VP of Customer Solutions and co-founder at DataStax, the commercial leader in
Apache Cassandra™. Prior to DataStax, Matt built and managed the Email and Apps infrastructure development group at Rackspace.
Prior to Rackspace, Matt was at Webmail.us where he worked in various management roles in infrastructure and scalability. Matt holds a BS from Virginia Tech in Computer Science.
John Schweitzer
Senior Vice President of Worldwide Operations
Schweitzer leads DataStax's global sales and services businesses with an emphasis on international and channel expansion. He joins DataStax from SAP where he led the company's multi-billion dollar analytics business, drove significant global growth and dramatically increased the number one market share position. In this role he oversaw the global strategy, go-to-market, operations, business relationships, customer success and sales teams. He also led the successful launch of SAP's HANA database in North America, one of the fastest-growing database software solutions in recent history. Prior to SAP, Schweitzer held senior leadership roles at Oracle and Hyperion, where he led global growth strategies in the U.S. and Europe.
Tom Aliotti
Senior Vice President of Sales and Business Development
Tom is responsible for our worldwide sales and business development efforts. He brings more than 25 years of sales management and business development experience driving revenue and profits for high growth startups as well as market leading companies such as Oracle Corporation, Cambridge Technology Partners and Activant Solutions. He is recognized for building winning teams across enterprise software, services, channels and SaaS business models. Tom holds an MBA from John F. Kennedy University and a bachelor of science degree from the University of California, Davis.
Lara Shackelford
Vice President of Marketing
Lara leads global marketing strategy and execution for DataStax. Her responsibilities include growing brand awareness, overseeing creative and campaign development, corporate communications, product marketing, open source community development and lead generation programs. Prior to joining DataStax, she increased regional revenues at QlikTech by 71 percent to reach $65 million and generated 60 percent more qualified leads. This prompted industry analysts at Gartner to call the company a "marketing juggernaut" and contributed to her strong reputation as a marketer who knows how to drive revenue. Over the 7 years she spent at Oracle, she helped drive the company's global partner marketing, partner strategy for the media and communications vertical, and led the ROI and customer reference programs. At IBM, she managed solutions and demand marketing for a $300 million global division, establishing the company as the market leader in Predictive Analytics during a major industry downturn. Lara earned a bachelor of arts degree from Stephens College and a Yale Executive Leadership Certificate from Yale School of Management.
John Glendenning
Vice President and General Manager of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa
John leads DataStax's field operations for Europe, Middle East and Africa and has spent over 19 years within the enterprise infrastructure software and hardware industry for companies such as Citrix, XenSource, Platform Computing and Compaq. John has regularly executed within high growth markets primed for disruptive change and for companies that challenge conventional thinking with best of breed products.
Martin Van Ryswyk
Vice President of Engineering
Martin is responsible for the worldwide software engineering, product development and continued advancement of our integrated enterprise big data platform. He has more than 22 years of experience managing software teams at both small startups and large corporations. During that time, he's brought products to market in a wide variety of areas such as cloud computing, application lifecyle management, database performance analysis, storage management and systems management. Before joining DataStax, he held numerous senior engineering roles, leading the development and go-to-market strategy for enterprise level technology products at Tidal Software, Luminate, EMC and most recently at Electric Cloud. Martin earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science from the University of California, Davis.
Robin Schumacher
Vice President of Products
Robin Schumacher has spent the last 20 years working with enterprise databases and leading product management teams. Robin started and led the product management team at MySQL for three years before they were bought by Sun (the largest open source acquisition in history), and then by Oracle. He also started and led the product management team at Embarcadero Technologies, which was the #1 IPO in 2000. Robin is the author of three database performance books and frequent speaker at industry events. Robin holds BS, MA, and Ph.D. degrees from various universities.
