Scott McNealy at Greenplum

Scott McNealy is currently serving as an executive advisor and coach to Greenplum Software. In this capacity Scott provides guidance and counsel to members of the Greenplum team in such areas as strategic planning, business development, and community initiatives. Scott has no financial stake in the company; his role is voluntary and without remuneration.

Scott McNealy cofounded Sun Microsystems 28 years ago and built an iconic company that generated more than $200 billion in revenue during its independent existence. Scott describes his current focus as being "a husband, a father of four, and a coach, builder and leader of people who want to make a difference." We are fortunate and proud to have him as a contributor to the Greenplum vision.

Joe Hellerstein - University of California, Berkeley

Joseph M. Hellerstein is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, whose research focuses on data management and networking. His work has been recognized via awards including an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, MIT Technology Review's inaugural TR100 list, and two ACM-SIGMOD "Test of Time" awards. Key ideas from his research have been incorporated into commercial and open-source database software released by IBM, Oracle, and PostgreSQL. He has also held industrial posts including Director of Intel Research Berkeley, and Chief Scientist of Cohera Corporation.

Tim O'Reilly - O'Reilly Media

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also hosts conferences on technology topics, including the Web 2.0 Summit, the Web 2.0 Expo, the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, and the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar, "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is an activist for open source and open standards, and an opponent of software patents and other incursions of new intellectual property laws into the public domain. Tim's long-term vision for his company is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators.

Robbert Van Renesse - Cornell University

Robbert van Renesse is a Principal Research Scientist at the Department of Computer Science. He received his Ph.D. from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam in 1989 where he developed the Amoeba Distributed Operating System. Subsequently he worked on the Plan 9 operating system at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Since joining Cornell in 1991 he has worked on scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems. He co-founded D.A.G. Labs that was acquired by FAST, and Reliable Network Solutions whose technology was acquired by Amazon.com. Other companies that use technology developed by Van Renesse include Microsoft, IBM, and Stratus.