David is responsible for putting Mirantis front and center with customers and developers across OpenStack and the open source ecosystem. He has over two decades of experience in IT marketing, business and operations  across a range of technology domains. Previously, he's held executive leadership roles at Lucene/big data startup Lucid Imagination, HP, Sun Microsystems, and Mercury Interactive. David has worked in datacenter disciplines such as reliability and high availability, performance, application development, open source and service level management/SLAs. He is also an experienced Six Sigma Master Blackbelt. He is notorious for his wicked sense of humor and recently ran his first marathon. David holds an MBA from Yale.