As the CTO & SVP of Business Development for Virtana, John is responsible for being the voice of the customer while understanding the key IT industry trends that affect product strategy and strategic alliances. With more than 20 years of IT industry experience, John has held a number of senior-level sales, sales engineering and marketing positions at industry leaders such as Qlogic, McData, CNT and Borland. He was a double major in Economics and Sociology at the University of California at Santa Cruz.