Christophe Bisciglia

Christophe Bisciglia was most recently the founder of Cloudera, the leading developer and distributor of Hadoop, the open source software that powers the data processing engines of the world's largest and most popular web sites.

Prior, Christophe was a senior engineer at Google where he founded and led Google's Academic Cloud Computing Initiative, which provides Google hosted computational resources to facilitate education and research to universities around the world. In February 2008, the National Science Foundation joined this initiative to distribute computational resources to the national research community.