Advisory Board

Cloudscaling’s Advisory Board includes experts with technical and product leadership experience at Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Microsoft Edge Computing Network (ECN), Canonical and the Leading Edge Forum at Computer Sciences Corporation (LEF-CSC).

Simon Wardley

Computer Sciences Corporation

Simon was responsible for cloud computing strategy at Canonical and is a recognized expert on cloud, utility computing and open source software. During his time there, Canonical’s Linux distribution — Ubuntu — became one of the leading cloud computing operating systems. Wardley now researches at the Leading Edge Forum (part of CSC) on the impact of technology change on organizational structure with emphasis on cloud computing, enterprise 2.0 and commoditization.

Chris Brown

Opscode

Chris’ career background includes Microsoft, where he was a Director of Engineering for the Edge Computing Network within Global Foundation Services. Prior to Microsoft, Christopher was a Founding Member, Architect, and Lead Developer for Amazon.com’s Elastic Compute Cloud (“EC2″). He holds several patents in the areas of Internet routing, VM/runtime hosting, content delivery and cloud computing.

Benjamin Black

Boundary

Mr. Black most recently co-founded and was CEO of Boundary. He is a recognized expert in large-scale technology infrastructure design, implementation, and operation. Previously, he was an engineering director in the ECN group at Microsoft Windows Live, where he helped build one of the largest content delivery networks in the world. As the manager of website engineering at Amazon, he lead the design and implementation of a new, layer 3 network for Amazon’s production network. As principal engineer for Amazon infrastructure, he co-authored the first documents on what later became EC2. As senior manager for information security, he owned and successfully delivered Sarbanes-Oxley and PCI DSS compliance for Amazon infrastructure, including the critical payments processing systems. His work in the Internap R&D team resulted in his being awarded 3 patents in Internet routing and traffic optimization. Mr. Black is also co-author on several IETF RFCs on MPLS control protocols and IPv6 network operations.

Bill Lanfri

Hawkswatch Holdings

Bill Lanfri brings more than 25 years of experience in networking and telecom to Cloudscaling. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Palo Alto Networks and Jive Software. His background also includes three years as Operating Partner at Accel Partners, CEO of telecom companies Big Bear Networks and Avanex Corporation, and founding investor of RedBack Networks. Bill gained his formative operating experience in product management and marketing as a member of the senior management team of intelligent hub pioneer SynOptics Communications.