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About the Company

Actian enables some of the most data-Intensive enterprises on earth to run their most mission-critical analytics and data management workloads. Thousands of forward-thinking organizations around the globe like Bloomberg, Intuit, Lufthansa, and Citibank trust Actian to help them solve the toughest data challenges and transform how they run their businesses... with data. Actian is majority owned by HCL Technologies (HCL), a next-generation global technology company that helps enterprises reimagine their businesses for the digital age. HCL serves leading enterprises across key industries, including 250 of the Fortune 500 and 650 of the Global 2000.

About the Person

As CTO, Mike leads the evangelism of Actian’s technology innovations for the Age of Data, looking over the technology horizon to maintain innovation as a core Actian competency. Mike also leads an in-house team focused on incubating new technology innovations. Mike joined Actian through its 2013 acquisition of Pervasive Software, where he was CTO, focused on addressing big data challenges and cloud-based and on-premises data management and integration. Mike received the AITP Austin chapter's 2007 Information Technologist of the Year Award for his leadership in developing DataRush, a highly parallelized framework to leverage multicore. Mike, a Distinguished and Centennial Alumnus of Ohio’s Bowling Green State University, is a respected technology thinker who speaks worldwide. He participated in the “Open Standards and Cloud Computing” panel at the 2009 Annual Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, the “Scaling the Database in the Cloud” panel at Structure 2010, the “Many Faces of MapReduce - Hadoop and Beyond” panel at Structure Big Data 2011 and delivered the DeployCon keynote in 2012: “The Waking Giant: The Coming Era of Enterprise-Ready PaaS.” Discussion topics include technology success strategies for the Age of Data, applying parallelism to tackle big data analytics, gaining price/performance efficiency in the Hadoop ecosystem, Software as a Service and cloud-based data services