Bio
CEO/ Cofounder For the past dozen years as an executive, Val led several Cloud storage (CDMI/S3) and data management (NetApp Multi-Cloud Data Fabric) innovations across the industry as Cloud CTO of NetApp. After a brief stint as CTO at Cloud-Native storage startup SolidFire, Val rejoined NetApp as CTO of both companies, post-acquisition in 2015, where he also helped open-source Google’s Kubernetes Cloud-Native technology as a founding governing board member of the Linux Foundation’s CNCF.