
DataGardens changes the way businesses provide IT services across multi-site data center environments. Its products reduce the cost of IT provisioning and administration, while increasing productivity, utilization, and resiliency. DataGardens software systems extend conventional virtualization services including virtual machine migration, high availability, and load balancing, so they can be leveraged across multiple distributed sites. This unique capability enables DataGardens to offer solutions for remote IT provisioning, multi-site resource sharing, business continuity, and consolidated multi-site backup. Based in Edmonton, Canada, DataGardens is a privately funded company.
Based in Edmonton, Canada, DataGardens is a privately funded company.
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Geoff Hayward, President and CEO. |
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Reg Joseph, Vice President Finance and Operations. |
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Rob Handlovsky, Vice President of Sales. |
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Ian Hardman, Director of Software Engineering. |
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Shubhankar Chatterjee, Director of Product Management. |
Bart Shigemura was most recently the President and CEO of YottaYotta Inc. Prior to YottaYotta, Bart was Chairman and CEO of Alidian Networks, a layer 2 grooming and aggregation platform in the metro optical market. Prior to Alidian, Bart was Vice President of worldwide Marketing for all data products at Lucent Technologies. He joined Lucent via their acquisition of Yurie Systems for $1.1b dollars in an all cash transaction. Bart served as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and was a member of their Board of Directors, helping to take Yurie public in 1997. Before joining Yurie, Bart was Vice President of Marketing and Services for Premisys Communications, joining that organization prior to their IPO. Earlier in his career, Bart held executive sales and marketing positions at Nortel Networks, General DataComm and IBM. Bart has been on the board of a number of public and private companies including Tellium, Yurie, Cibernet, and YottaYotta, Inc. Bart has a B.S. degree in Marketing and Finance from the University of Southern California.
Jim Godsell is CEO of Chartwell International. Jim has over 20 years of technology experience, specializing in taking new companies and technologies to market, and has been a co-founder and director of several international software ventures. Mr. Godsell is responsible for all commercial and business related functions in the Chartwell group including Sales, Marketing, Account Management and Support. Mr. Godsell is also responsible for all Chartwell's overseas operations. He holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computer Science and Mathematics, as well as Diplomas in Business and Operations. Most recently, Jim was Vice President - EMEA and Asia Pacific of DISC Storage Inc. of Santa Clara, CA., responsible for all aspects of international business and line management. He has also held the position of Chief Operating Officer with Rightsmarket Inc. and was responsible for technology, developing strategic business relationships, sales and marketing. Prior to this Mr. Godsell was Vice President and Storage Business Unit Manager for Beta Systems Software AG, of Berlin, Germany, responsible for worldwide Sales and Marketing. He was also Vice President of Sales and Marketing, member of the Board of Directors, and a founder of Harbor Systems Management Ltd., a Calgary, Alberta-based storage management software company. His career also includes senior-level responsibility for development and product management at several international technology companies including Digital Communications Associates (DCA) in Switzerland and Germany.
Dr. Mike MacGregor is the Chair of Computing Science at the University of Alberta. Professor MacGregor holds two patents and has more than 60 refereed publications. His research focuses on architectures and algorithms for routing and switching. He is interested in the design, analysis and performance of the components used to create networks. He is also interested in the architecture of networks themselves and efficient algorithms for near-optimal design.