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	    <h2>About ElasticBox</h2>
	    <p class="lead">A new kind of cloud application management solution from a new kind of company.</p>
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	    <h2 class="text-center">What Is ElasticBox?</h2>
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	    <div class="col-lg-5 padding-1x"><h4 class="lead">Purpose-built to maintain IT governance and compliance while enabling developers and IT Operations to innovate across private, public, or hybrid clouds - any app, any cloud, any time - You focus on apps, not infrastructure. ElasticBox was founded in 2011 and is backed by leading venture capital firms.</h4></div>
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		    <p class="lead col-lg-6 col-lg-offset-3">A track record of innovation and success building applications, services, and networking solutions.</p>
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	    	<p class="clear-leadership-social">Ravi brings over fifteen years of experience in software development, product and program management, and startup incubation. He has held senior engineering and product management positions at large enterprises like Microsoft and IBM, as well as in several successful software startups. Ravi's experience spans software infrastructure, developer platforms, and applications for enterprise and social networking segments.</p>
	    	<p>Most recently, as VP of Product at Social Gaming Network, Ravi was instrumental in driving rapid adoption of the flagship gaming application MindJolt. Prior to that, Ravi led enterprise software applications and platform services at Rational Software, IBM, and Microsoft.</p>
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	    	<p class="clear-leadership-social">Alberto has over 12 years of experience in architecture and software development for large scale distributed systems. Prior to starting ElasticBox, as the VP of Architecture at DynamicOps, Alberto led the design of enterprise-scale platform to automate the private cloud infrastructure used by several Fortune 500 companies.</p>
	    	<p>Alberto obtained his Master's degree in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, and is working towards his Ph.D. in Computer Science (pending dissertation). In his spare time, Alberto enjoys cycling, mountain biking, and pampering his infant twin daughters.</p>
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	    	<p class="clear-leadership-social">As Vice President of Product, Tim has responsibility for ElasticBox product and marketing strategy. He has over 15 years of high tech product marketing, product management, and marketing experience.</p>
	    	<p>Prior to ElasticBox, Tim ran Product Marketing at MobileIron, where he was responsible for pricing and packaging, product messaging, product launch, competitive marketing, and market research activities, and launched the Anyware product line from scratch. Tim also spent six years at VMware, managing the vSphere, vCenter, vCloud Director marketing efforts, while overseeing their transition into the vCloud Suite solutions. He has also held management positions at Oracle and Siebel Systems. Tim has degrees from The University of Michigan and The University of Chicago.</p>
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	    	<p class="clear-leadership-social">An accomplished sales leader with twenty five years of technology industry experience, both domestically and internationally, Mike joins ElasticBox with a proven track record of taking several hi-tech startup companies to $100M+ in revenue. Mike brings his extensive experience developing, motivating, and scaling sales teams and channel partners to drive ElasticBox customer engagements in EMEA.</p>
	    	<p>Before ElasticBox, Mike served as Sales Director at Tivoli, Riversoft, Njini, and DynamicOps for enterprise application and infrastructure management software. Earlier in his career, Mike served in sales at Sun Microsystems and Data general. Mike's responsibilities have included recruiting and training, developing customer and partner strategy, streamlining global operations, and driving significant market-share for the companies.</p>
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	    	<p class="clear-leadership-social">Ankur brings over ten years of sales experience at leading software companies such as Sun Microsystems, Oracle, and EMC, in the areas of software infrastructure, middleware, enterprise applications, and cloud services. Prior to joining ElasticBox, as a top-ranked Technology Sales Manager at Oracle, Ankur spearheaded an integrated sales, partner engagement, and customer support strategy targeting mid-market and greenfield accounts, resulting in a stellar 200% growth.</p>
	    	<p>Currently, as Sales Director for North America, Ankur's responsibilities include new account management, partner development, and field recruitment and training.</p>
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