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A team built to leverage vast experience in data management across all environments. Our experience runs deep, our passion for innovation even deeper.
Leadership
A team built to leverage vast experience in data management across all environments. Our experience runs deep, our passion for innovation even deeper.
CloudSoda delivers AI-ready intelligent data management, covering everything from discovery and analytics to governance, collaboration, movement and continuous data lifecycle optimization. By placing data at the center, CloudSoda provides a modern approach to data management tailored for the AI era.
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Tami Booth is the Chief Revenue Officer at CloudSoda, where she leverages over 25 years of experience in technology sales and operations to drive growth and innovation. Previously, she held executive roles at EPICiO Technologies, Dell, VCE, and EMC, focusing on revenue enhancement and customer success.
Tami is recognized for her expertise in establishing global technology alliances and her commitment to empowering women in tech. Her leadership is pivotal in advancing CloudSoda’s mission of modern data management in the AI era.
Mark Zanotti is the Chief Financial Officer of CloudSoda, contributing to its success since its inception. He previously held the role of VP of Finance at IMT for six years, and after receiving his MBA he was a Senior Associate at a single-family office focused on venture and alternative investments. Mark also gained international experience while working at Ascension Capital Group, a boutique advisory firm in Beijing, China.
As Chief Technology Officer, JD Trout brings over 20 years of experience in software development, cloud architecture, and IT infrastructure management. He has guided teams in creating scalable, cloud-native solutions, managing complex system integrations and overseeing robust IT infrastructure across a range of industries.
JD’s expertise includes architecting high-performance environments, implementing containerized microservices, and driving digital transformation initiatives. JD is passionate about leveraging emerging technologies and is always curious to explore how they can help us better understand and interact with our world.
As a successful entrepreneur in the technology and data management sectors, Olivier Rivard brings over a decade of experience to his role as SVP of Product at CloudSoda. While President of Oridigraphe, a Canadian IT Services company, he recognized the need for data visualization solutions to help companies gain insights from their unstructured data and founded DataIntell.
With CloudSoda’s acquisition of DataIntell, Olivier leads product management for innovative data management solutions that empower organizations to optimize their data storage and management strategies.
Lars Nielson is a results-driven marketing executive with over 20 years of experience, driving growth in tech companies. At CloudSoda he is responsible for leading marketing strategy, messaging, brand development, product marketing and demand generation. Lars previously held senior leadership roles at Dell Technologies, VCE and EMC.
Lars is recognized for building high-performing teams and pioneering innovative marketing programs, including Dell’s GenAI initiatives with NVIDIA and Test Drive, a pipeline acceleration program with VMware/Broadcom. He is passionate about the AI Data Management space.
Nina Hargus is an IT industry consultant, board member and External Advisor in the Bain Advisory Network. She is the former CMO of industry leader EMC, industry start-up VCE, which scaled to $2B in profitable revenue prior to its acquisition by EMC, scaling to $2B in profitable revenue prior to acquision and Virtustream, a $300M cloud turnaround. Her expertise and passion is the alignment of business strategy, marketing and go-to-market to build brand, demand and scale. Nina is currently working with companies ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 100.
Jamie Erbes has more than 30 years of leadership, innovation and influence in network, data center and workflow automation – with an emphasis in Enterprise IT. As a Director in Google Maps Platform, she built a 150+ person organization to help developers and companies incorporate geolocation insights into innovative applications and business systems.
Previous to Google, Jamie was VP/Product Management and Product Marketing at VCE (the VMware, Cisco, EMC joint venture) with go-to-market responsibilities of all market-facing products, services and solutions for Vblock Converged Infrastructure. Over her 3 years at VCE, the company launched 12 new products and grew from $500k to over $2B annual run rate.
Jamie’s career also includes HPLabs as HP Fellow and Director of Software and Services Research. Also, at EDS she served as an EDS Fellow and CTO of their $13B infrastructure outsourcing business.
Denis Rivard is the founder and president of Ordigraphe Inc. With expertise in integrating advanced technologies for large-scale digital file transfers in multimedia production, he excels in innovation, client relations and infrastructure design. Notable achievements include projects for Université de Montréal, Cirque du Soleil and global initiatives in the U.S., Thailand and Brazil. Renowned for leadership, creativity and professionalism, Denis has positioned Ordigraphe as a leader in multimedia technology, supported by a specialized team and exceptional client service.
