ParaScale Advisory Team

Most recently, Mr. Colgrove was a Symantec Fellow and served as vice president of technology strategy for the company’s Data Center Management Group (DCMG). Mr. Colgrove worked at Veritas/Symantec for more than 19 years and was a founding engineer of the original Veritas products, VxVM and VxFS. During this time, he made significant contributions to the many releases of the storage foundation products, the original versions of the NFS and database editions and the Volume Replicator products. Mr. Colgrove also built the performance lab at Veritas and has always been keenly interested driving the performance and scalability of products. He holds more than 50 patents related to storage and storage software.

With nearly 20 years of executive and senior management IT and engineering experience in ecommerce, commercial software development, and online media and entertainment, Alex is vice president of technology at Gorilla Nation. Gorilla Nation Media is the world's largest online ad sales rep firm that exclusively represents over 500 leading web publishers, and averages over 60 million unique visitors per month. Previously, he served as part of the senior management team at Shopzilla; chief information officer at Diskeeper; executive director of technology for the B3 Corp division of Time Warner; and senior director of IS&T for the Maxis division of Electronic Arts.

At Google, Chuck and his team spear-head the challenges of managing storage on a massive scale every day. In his 20+ years of experience prior to Google, Chuck was a senior director at Network Appliance leading the movement from single machine storage appliances to clouds of appliances.

Ethan is the Associate Director of the Storage Systems Research Center at UCSC, where he explores issues in advanced file & storage systems. He has been doing research in storage systems for over 20 years.

Dr. Kamvar is the technical lead of personalization at Google and a consulting professor in Computational Mathematics at Stanford. Prior to that, he was the founder and CEO of Kaltix, a personalized search engine that was acquired by Google in October 2003. Dr. Kamvar received his BS in Chemistry from Princeton University, and his PhD in Applied Mathematics at Stanford University. He is on the advisory boards of several companies including Nextbio and AuctionPal.