Derek Collison — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Founder & CEO at Synadia
Founded Synadia, creator of NATS.io
Designed CloudFoundry, the first open-source enterprise PaaS
Co-founded the AJAX APIs group at Google
Board Member at Ronald Regan UCLA Medical Center and Innovation Board Member at Xprize
Investor in Xperiel, Heavybit, and Vicarious

Biography

Derek Collison is a 30-year industry veteran, entrepreneur, and pioneer in secure and large-scale distributed systems and cloud computing. He spent over a decade at TIBCO, designing systems that power financial, transportation, and logistics industries.

At Google, Collison co-founded the AJAX APIs group and created a large CDN for popular JavaScript libraries. During his time at VMWare, he designed and architected CloudFoundry, which was the first open-source enterprise PaaS.