Coffee Talk - The Future Looms Bright for This Business Built on Amazon S3

For the past 10 years, Michael Hesse has worked in Information Security across multiple industries including Defense, Media Entertainment, and Analytics. Michael has implemented requirements of a number of different compliance frameworks and knows first hand the criticality of reliable backups. Having worked in both large corporations and startups, as well as working with on-premises and cloud native solutions, Michael brings additional insights into understanding the right solution for the right need.

Peter Imming is a Principal Product Manager on the Amazon S3 team. Peter’s role involves working directly with customers, Partners, and AWS engineers to plan and build S3’s next-generation cloud storage capabilities. Prior to AWS, Peter has been in the backup, DR, and storage industry for over 25 years in Product Management roles at Seagate, VERITAS, EMC, and Dell where he helped build next-generation backup, disaster recovery, data management, and storage analytics services.

Chadd Kenney is the Vice President of Product at Clumio. Chadd has 20 years of experience in technology leadership roles, most recently as Vice President of Products and Solutions for Pure Storage. Prior to that role, he was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Americas helping to grow the business from zero in revenue to over a billion. Chadd also spent 8 years at EMC in various roles from Field CTO to Principal Engineer.