Ian is a veteran of the data analytics and data integration industries, with roles spanning product management, product marketing, pre-sales engineering, and professional services at companies such as Hortonworks, Pentaho, Jaspersoft, PeopleSoft, Informix, Epiphany, and Business Objects. He was building custom BI applications and data warehouses before that’s what they were called. For the past 10 years, he has been focused on "big data,” with the emergence of modern platforms designed for managing and analyzing very large data volumes, streaming data, and unstructured data. Ian currently leads product marketing and analyst relations at Zoomdata.