Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization 
Geminare
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Geist is an experienced, hands-on entrepreneurial leader who is recognized as the key innovator in the Cloud-based Recovery as a Service (RaaS) industry. With a solid track record of founding innovative and market disruptive companies, Geist currently focuses his efforts on establishing leading business models, technologies and processes in the
Cloud-based RaaS landscape through Geminare, the global market leader in RaaS deployments and enablement. Through Geist’s leadership, Geminare is recognized through industry awards and leading market analysts and has patented its disruptive Cloud CORE Platform—a proven, mature, multi-tiered service delivery vehicle that is the foundation of Geminare’s entire RaaS enablement engine.
A quoted technology expert in the media, Geist previously founded and was President and Chief Executive Officer of MindBytes, a professional services organization focused on delivering technology best practices to organizations. There he acted as the outsourced Chief Technology Officer and advisor for over 200 small and mid-sized organizations over the course of 12 years, personally guiding consistent year-over-year company growth for multiple start-ups. Prior to founding MindBytes, Geist had the privilege of working for Apple Computer for over 4 years as their Technical Training Manager where he developed and delivered network, system, sales and operational training programs across Canada.
Geist holds a degree in Applied Physics and Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario and enjoys every free moment with his wife and three daughters.
