Why We're Here

Tim has spent his career focused on cloud computing, software development, and financial markets. He was previously the COO for UCX (Universal Compute Xchange), which was an innovative financial market defining a new asset class of exchange-traded products for cloud computing that was supported and backed by CME Group (Nasdaq: CME). Prior to UCX, Tim led business development for Status4, Inc. (formerly GTG Golf), an early-adopter of NodeJS, MongoDB, and HTML5 which pioneered a mobile web application technology used by golfers for live leaderboard updates during their competitive rounds.  Before Tim’s tech career, he pursued a career as a professional golfer.

Sandy has decades of experience in global business development for emerging technology initiatives and is a highly respected specialist in Gordian Knots, Break Markets, and Pivots for multiple vertical market sectors. Over the last decade she has been deeply involved in cloud, AI/ML, AR/VR, and cybersecurity. She is a seasoned CEO, Board Member, and early-stage investor, whose background includes Founder/CEO of ACS and Valkyrie Ventures, Partner/Board Member of Eleven Canterbury, Founding Board Member CloudNOW, Advisory Board UCX, Board Member/Partner Advisory BMC Software, Board Member Control F1, Founder Network Professional Association, and Founder Patrol User Group. Sandy enjoys sharing that she started life in a data center at age 16 so her perspective is finely tuned to the reality of enterprise client needs.

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Myles is an accomplished entrepreneur, investor, and senior operations and technology executive who has previously been responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars in annual IT budgets. He has served as VP of Technology Services at Chase Bank, CIO and Board Member at Pythian, SVP/CIO for TravelClick, CIO for Register.com, CTO for FreshDirect, CTO for IntraLinks, and CIO for Prudential Healthcare. Myles has been a CIO 100 award recipient from CIO Magazine, and he’s been on the technology advisory council of several Fortune 100 companies. Importantly, Myles also serves as InfraSight’s resident “voice of the customer”.  

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Matt has more than 20 years' experience with several technology companies in diverse industries. His experience notably includes Senior Director of Operations for Beats Audio, where he designed and built a massively scalable hybrid cloud platform for the launch of the Beats Music service. Matt then worked at Apple in their Platform Infrastructure Engineering Group (Apple PIE) where he led the team that transitioned the Beats Music service into the Apple Ecosystem following their acquisition. During his career, Matt has also served as VP of Technology Services at Pythian, CTO of Tehama, Senior Director of Operations at Bit Torrent, and as a QA Engineer at Macromedia. 

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Becky is an accomplished IT executive with 30 years of experience working in senior-level positions with a number of prominent US brands. Previously, Becky was SVP/Chief Innovation, Information and Technology Officer for MGM Resorts International, SVP/CIO for BestBuy, VP/Global CTO for PepsiCo, and EVP/Global CTO for Wells Fargo. Becky also is the founder of RSW1C, a technology consulting firm. Becky earned her B.S. in Management Information Sciences from Chapman University (Summa Cum Laude) and her MBA with an MIS concentration (Magna Cum Laude) from Golden Gate University. In 2012, she was honored by ExecRanks as one of the top 200 CIOs and one of the top 50 female CIOs. She also holds two US patents.

Jeff is currently the President of Spalding Solutions, a growth execution firm, and the Carolina’s Chapter Director for the Chief Operating Officer Business Forum, a peer-to-peer organization. He previously was President/CEO of Versiant Corporation, a managed and professional services SaaS provider. Before Versiant, Jeff was COO and Chief Revenue Officer at Peak 10, a private equity-backed data center and cloud services company. He also was Head of Sales for Osprey Systems, an SAP, e-commerce consulting and software firm. Jeff spent the early part of his career at IBM rising to North America's Business Unit Executive. Jeff earned a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of South Florida.

Charles has built his career in financial management, investment operations, and compliance. Prior to founding Pura Vida Partners, a consulting firm focused on helping businesses navigate early-stage challenges and growth, he was the founding CFO and CCO of EVR Research, a long/short equity hedge fund, where he played a key role scaling the firm from inception to over $500 million in assets under management. Prior to EVR, he was an Associate at Investure, LLC, a leading Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) firm with over $12 billion in AUM, where he implemented and managed due diligence across 200+ investment relationships. Before that, he served as Investment Operations Manager at The Riverstone Group, a single-family office, where he built the back- and middle-office functions to support a diversified investment portfolio.