Jnan Dash is a technology visionary and executive consultant in Silicon Valley. He focuses on enterprise solutions such as Cloud Computing, Big Data and Analytics, Virtualization, Real-time Events, Real-time Business Intelligence, and consumerization of IT. He spent 10 years at Oracle Corporation and was the Group Vice President, Systems Architecture and Technology. He was responsible for setting Oracle’s core database and application server product directions and interacted with customers worldwide in translating future needs to product plans. Prior to joining Oracle in 1992, he spent 16 years at IBM in various positions including development of the DB2 family of products and in charge of IBM's database architecture and technology. Mr. Dash is a frequent speaker at industry forums around the world on the future of software technology. He sits on several boards and advisory boards of companies.