Primary Job Title President and CEO Primary Organization 
Ingrian Networks
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Michael Howard joined MariaDB Corporation as CEO in 2015. As CEO of C9, Michael brings a wealth of leadership experience and a proven track record in leading high growth companies. Michael comes to C9 from Greenplum, the Big Data division of EMC. Michael has an impressive execution track record as former CEO of Ingrian Networks (acquired by
Safenet), CEO of Outerbay (acquired by HP), VP of the Internet Division at Veritas, and VP of Data Warehousing at Oracle, where he led the acquisitions of Thinking Machines, OneMeaning, and Carleton Corporation. Michael has been in the analytics business for over 20 years, served on the boards of Acunu and FireEye, and keynoted at a variety of conferences, including EMC World, Oracle Open World, Green Data Center Conference, Data Science Series, and many others. Michael studied Computer Science and Slavic Languages and Literatures at University of California, Berkeley.
