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Jason Hood
Chief Technology Officer – Field
He has almost 30 years of experience running cloud, infrastructure (server, storage, and network), desktop, service desk, security, HPC, and data teams for both Fortune 500 and private equity-funded companies. Most recently, he has focused on the operations side of large data centers, IT modernization, and cloud migrations.
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Josh Stone
Senior Solutions Consultant
Josh is a senior solutions consultant at Stratascale. He focuses on multi-cloud, app modernization, DevOps, and related topics to help clients modernize their businesses through smart technology transformation.
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Kim King
Senior Director of Product Marketing, HYCU
Kim is senior director of product marketing at HYCU. She has over 15 years’ experience driving, managing, and executing strategic go-to-market initiatives in healthcare and technology, and is an enthusiastic leader with a passion for people development..
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Derek Shank
Head of Research - Innovation Labs
Derek is head of research at Stratascale's Innovation Labs. Throughout his career—from academia to personal finance to IT research—he has focused on uncovering insights and helping people put those insights to good use.
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