Mazda Marvasti was formerly the CTO of the Cloud Management business unit at VMware. He arrived at VMware via the acquisition of his company Integrien which he was the co-founder and CTO from 2005 to 2010. He led the algorithm development of Integrien’s flagship product Alive that used patented statistical techniques to proactively determine application performance issues. Prior to Integrien Mazda was the CTO of LowerMyBills.com (acquired by Experian for $380M) where he built the initial team and launched the service to millions of daily users. In the 90’s Mazda worked on projects ranging from satellite optics contamination due to charged particles (Aerospace Corporation), Computational Fluid Dynamics in vehicle under hoods (General Motors) and Finite Element structural analysis for crash simulation (Ford Motor Company). Mazda holds a Masters degree from University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in Aerospace Engineering and holds multiple patents on large scale data analytics.