Leadership

Gian is a co-author of the open source Apache Druid® project and co-founder and CTO at Imply. Gian is also the Apache Druid® Committee (PMC) Chair. Previously, Gian led the data ingestion team at Metamarkets and held senior engineering positions at Yahoo. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Caltech.

Vadim is a co-author of the open source Apache Druid® project and co-founder and CXO at Imply. Prior to Imply he worked at Metamarkets (acquired by Snapchat). Vadim holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. At Stanford he was part of the Data Visualization group where he contributed to Protovis and D3.js.

Eric is a co-author of the open source Apache Druid® project and Field CTO at Imply. He has been consistently working with Druid throughout his roles as a Fellow at Splunk and before that as a Distinguished Engineer at Yahoo Inc. Eric was a member of the founding team of Tidepool, a Diabetes Data Non-Profit, and was the VP of Engineering at Metamarkets, where Druid originated. Eric holds a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Tokyo and B.A. in Computer Science and Japanese from the University of Texas at Austin.

Juleen is General Counsel at Imply where she leads the global legal and compliance team. She is a seasoned legal executive with fifteen years of experience growing the legal function in both growth startups and global enterprises. Her expertise includes a nuanced understanding of the goals of emerging growth companies and is known for driving alignment between the business, people, and legal functions. Juleen earned a B.S. in Biochemistry from CSU East Bay and a JD from the University of New Hampshire, Franklin Pierce Law Center.

Jennifer is Chief People Officer at Imply and is in charge of building and retaining our exceptional team of #imployees. Prior to joining Imply, she held various HR leadership roles at Highspot, Skytap and Dell EMC. Jennifer holds a B.A. in Psychology and Sociology from University of California, Berkeley.

Jay leads Imply’s worldwide sales organization. He has been in the data and analytics space for over twenty years. Jay has led sales organizations at AWS, MapR(acquired by HP), Rockset and Oracle and holds a B.A. degree from University of Southern California.

Tony is CFO at Imply and leads the corporate finance teams. He has extensive experience leading teams in finance, accounting, legal, HR, facilities, sales operations and corporate development. Tony holds a B.A. from John Hopkins University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Kevin is Vice President, Global Customer Success at Imply and leads the customer success, support, professional services and sales engineering teams. He has decades of experience in the technology space, specializing in data and analytics. Throughout his career, he has led IT, software engineering, professional services, support, training and customer success teams. Kevin holds a B.S. in Political Science and MPA from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.