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Cornelia Davis is Vice President of Technology at Pivotal, where she works on the technology strategy for both Pivotal and for Pivotal customers. Through engagement across Pivotal’s broad customer base, Cornelia develops core cloud platform strategies that drive significant change in enterprise organizations, and influence the Pivotal Cloud Foundry evolution. Currently she is working on ways to bring the various cloud-computing models of Infrastructure as a Service, Application as a Service, Container as a Service and Function as a Service together into a comprehensive offering that allows IT organizations to function at the highest levels. She is the author of the book “Cloud Native: Designing Change-tolerant Software” by Manning Publications (https://www.manning.com/books/cloud-native). 

An industry veteran with almost three decades of experience in image processing, scientific visualization, distributed systems and web application architectures, and cloud-native platforms, Cornelia holds the B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from California State University, Northridge and further studied theory of computing and programming languages at Indiana University.

When not doing those things you can find her on the yoga mat or in the kitchen.

James Watters is the Senior Vice President, Strategy of Pivotal.

James serves as our Senior Vice President, Strategy, where he has helped shepherd Pivotal Cloud Foundry into a highly disruptive enterprise software business, and helped led our efforts to bringing our cloud-native platform to the world.

Prior to joining Pivotal, James held leading product roles at VMware and Sun Microsystems.

Chad Sakac has two leadership roles at Pivotal:
The first role is leading the go to market for the Americas, supporting great teams who in turn support a broad range of customer ranging from the largest enterprises in the world to new startups - all looking to transform the way they build software.
The second role is leading the joint Kubernetes (PKS) efforts between VMware and Pivotal where he brings together the Engineering, Marketing and GTM aspects of the business – with the goal of building the best Enterprise Container Platform together with VMware – part of how Pivotal is transforming the way how software and the future is built.
PKS is a joint effort with VMware – and the effort involves bringing the immense resources of two great companies together. This alliance part of Chad’s role extends to all of the elements of how Pivotal works with Dell Technologies (Dell, Dell EMC, VMware, RSA, Secureworks, Virtustream, Boomi) - across the transformational methodologies (Pivotal Labs, Platform Acceleration Labs, Application Transformation and more) and technologies (all of Pivotal Cloud Foundry, Pivotal Data) of Pivotal as a whole.
Prior to this role, Chad spent 14 years at Dell EMC where he was responsible for several technical customer focusing on customer and partner innovation – most recently as the President and GM of the Converged Platform and Solutions Division (CPSD), and prior to that leading all global Systems Engineering team. Before joining EMC, Chad led the Systems Engineering team at Allocity, Inc.
Chad authors one of the top 20 cloud, virtualization and infrastructure blogs, “Virtual Geek”
He holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.

Michael is currently the Pivotal Synergy Field CTO, working with numerous organizations as they navigate their digital transformation journey. He loves to see businesses achieve their ultimate outcomes through organizational and technological innovation.

Michael has a long history in IT, including various leadership and individual contributor roles. Before working at Pivotal, he led numerous sales engineering efforts at VMware, Oracle, Compuware, and BEA.