Chris Gladwin is the CEO of Ocient, which looks to successfully provide the leading platform the world uses to analyze its largest datasets. In 2004, Chris Gladwin founded Cleversafe, which became the largest and most strategic object storage vendor in the world. He raised $100M and led the company to over a $1.4B exit in 2015 when IBM acquired it. Prior to Cleversafe, Chris was the Founding CEO of startups MusicNow and Cruise Technologies and led product strategy for Zenith Data Systems. He started his career at Lockheed Martin as a database programmer and holds an engineering degree from MIT.