Open Source and Advanced Analytics Sales Pro, Rowan Scranage, Joins to Accelerate Global Growth
SAN MATEO, CA – October 3, 2019 - Alluxio, developer of open source data orchestration technology used by seven of the world’s top 10 Internet companies, today announced the appointment of Rowan Scranage as vice president, global sales and business development, reporting to Alluxio CEO Steven Mih. The company is now well positioned to meet the growing demand for its Data Orchestration Platform that enables enterprises to scale analytics workloads across hybrid cloud environments.
“Alluxio’s recent focus has been primarily on building open source momentum with more than 100 community users and 1,000+ contributors,” said Steven Mih, CEO, Alluxio. “We’ve seen a dramatic uptick in our user base deploying analytic and AI workloads to the cloud, reflecting a rapid acceleration in enterprise cloud adoption and the increased need for high performance hybrid/multi-cloud data analytics systems. Next, we are committed to building a world-class Go-To-Market team with Rowan at the helm to run both the sales organization and drive strategic partnerships with mega-cloud and compute-focused vendors. His strong background building sales organizations that drive open source products, as well as his deep experience in the advanced analytics and AI space, makes him the ideal choice.”
“I am excited to join Alluxio, a company that is at the intersection of cloud, AI, and open source with a platform that uniquely addresses the challenges that have come out of decoupled architectures in today’s modern workloads,” said Scranage. “I am looking forward to sharing my experiences and tapping into my open source and AI background to continue to drive Alluxio’s growth on a global scale, working with partners and customers as they identify new, innovative use cases for leveraging data across frameworks, clouds, and storage.”
Rowan joins Alluxio from Swedish Deep Learning Pioneer Peltarion where he was chief revenue officer responsible for sales, marketing and the Go-To-Market strategy. Prior to Peltarion, he was vice president & general manager for Couchbase, the leading NoSQL Engagement Database covering EMEA and Asia Pacific. He has held senior management positions at leading B2B technology companies over the last 20 years, including Amdocs, Guavus (Thales), Mformation (Nokia) and Lucent.
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About Alluxio
Alluxio, a leading provider of the high performance data platform for analytics and AI,
accelerates time-to-value of data and AI initiatives and maximizes infrastructure ROI. Uniquely
positioned at the intersection of compute and storage systems, Alluxio has a universal view of
workloads on the data platform across stages of a data pipeline. This enables Alluxio to provide
high performance data access regardless of where the data resides, simplify data engineering,
optimize GPU utilization, and reduce cloud and storage costs. With Alluxio, organizations can
achieve magnitudes faster model training and serving without the need for specialized storage,
and build AI infrastructure on existing data lakes. Backed by leading investors, Alluxio powers
technology, internet, financial services, and telecom companies, including 9 out of the top 10
internet companies globally. To learn more, visit www.alluxio.io.
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