The article was compiled by the Capital Theory of the Internet of Things. The following are the reasons and introductions of the 50 influencers of marginal computing in the world.
1、Alex Gellman
CEO and co-founder of Vertical Bridge
Gellman is one of the top executives in the United States and currently serves as the CEO of Vertical Bridge, which is the largest owner and operator of wireless communication infrastructure in the United States.
Gellman led the company’s marginal vision, invested in marginal computing technology, and established a partnership with the largest marginal transaction database in the United States to date.
2、Alfonso Carrillo Aspiazu
Chief architect of Telefonica
Aspiazu is the marginal secret weapon of Telefonica. He is responsible for the design of the company’s OnLife solution, which aims to decentralize data analysis and make it on edge devices.
3、Andre Fuetsch
President and technical director of AT&T laboratory
Fuetsch is responsible for providing the architecture and design of edge applications for AT&T’s future network evolution. He led a team of more than 2,000 engineers and computer scientists to work on projects covering commercial and mass market customers.
4、Angelo Corsaro
ADLink chief technology officer
Corsaro is a key technical expert in high-performance and large-scale distributed systems. He is responsible for ADLink’s industrial Internet of Things technology strategy and innovation, and is behind the company’s fog computing platform for edge devices.
5、Cole Crawford
Founder and CEO of Vapor IO
With more than 20 years of experience in telecommunications and data centers, Cole has established a solid solution and strategic portfolio, and has now launched Vapor IO, one of the most powerful edge data center products in the world.
In addition, Cole is the co-founder of the Open 19 Foundation. He is the executive director of the Open Compute Project, the former chairman of the Open Data Center Alliance and the co-founder of OpenStack.
6、Daniel Rodriguez
Vice President of Intel Data Center Group; General manager of general infrastructure department
Rodriguez is one of Intel’s top executives, who is responsible for ensuring that the company remains in the leading position and is in the leading position in the marginal field. In the communications and infrastructure department, he leads the strategy and manages multiple business units, including wireless core, wired infrastructure, routers and switches, and network security.
7、David King
CEO of Flexenclosure
King is an international business leader with more than 15 years of experience in telecommunications and high-tech markets. He currently leads Flexencosure, a manufacturer of prefabricated data centers, which deploys infrastructure around the world to bring computing power closer to data sources in urban and rural areas.
8、David Linthicum
Chief Cloud Strategy Officer of Deloitte Consulting
Linthicum is one of the leading cloud experts in the world, and has published 13 books and more than 3,000 articles, commenting on various topics including emerging technologies.
In Deloitte’s revenue of $38 billion in 2017, he was responsible for building innovative technologies to help customers operate more efficiently.
9、Eric Simone
Founder and CEO of ClearBlade
Simone, who is headquartered in Austin, started working at IBM in 1988, and since then he has made his mark in the field of software development. He founded the edge computing company ClearBlade in 2007. The software company enables enterprises to quickly design and run secure, real-time and extensible Internet of Things applications. He is also the president and doctor of medicine of the investment company Compete Investments.
10、Flavio Bonomi
Founder/CEO of Nebbiolo Technologies
Bonomi is a serial entrepreneur, technologist and industry dreamer who helped to define a new computing model-"fog computing". He founded Nebbiolo Technologies, which brings cloud-like functions closer to data generation sources, and integrates real-time functions to integrate IT and OT into one platform.
11、George Tchaparian
President and CEO of EdgeCore
Tchaparian is an experienced technical executive with more than 30 years of industry experience, serving as the CEO of Edgecore Networks, a provider of traditional and open network solutions for data centers and telecom service providers. In addition, Tchaparian is the vice chairman of the * * * Open Computing Project.
12、Helder Antunes
Chairman of OpenFog Alliance
Antunes is the senior director of Cisco’s strategic innovation team. In the OpenFog Alliance, he ensured that the organization’s goal is still to create an open reference architecture in fog computing, build an operation model and test platform, define and promote technologies, and educate the market and promote business development through the booming OpenFog ecosystem. He is also a veteran of Cisco and has more than 28 years of experience in leading product and solution development.
13、Hugh Carspecken
CEO and co-founder of DartPoints Holdings
Headquartered in Dallas, Carspecken is one of the most outstanding edge technology experts in Silicon Valley with more than 20 years of cross-industry experience.
At DartPoints, he led one of the fastest growing edge data center companies in the world, which deployed and operated assets at the edge of the network, including tower sites, interconnection sites and central offices.
14、Indranil Chakraborty
Google Cloud product manager
Chakraborty has worked with Google for more than 10 years and is now one of the major companies behind the company’s fringe games. He helped to build Google Cloud IoT Core, a comprehensive management service based on Google Cloud Platform(GCP), which can help to securely connect and manage IOT devices in any marginal environment on a large scale.
15、Jeff Fedders
President of OpenFog alliance
Fedders is the founder and president of OpenFog Alliance, and the founder and steering committee representative of Industrial Internet Alliance (IIC).
At the same time, he is also the chief strategist of the Strategy and Technology Office of Intel Internet of Things Group, mainly responsible for standards, alliances and strategic partnerships. In his duties, he is responsible for supervising Intel Internet of Things standard environment participation, guiding its strategic development, and guiding standards to participate in Internet of Things standards and alliance communities.
16. Huang Renxun
Nvidia co-founder, president and CEO
Huang Renxun founded NVIDIA in 1993 and has served as president, CEO and board member since its establishment. He supports some of the world’s leading developments in the field of artificial intelligence, including deep learning deployment, which is crucial for everything from data centers to network cores and devices.
17、Jennifer Majernik Huffstetler
Vice President and General Manager of Intel Product Marketing, Product Management and Storage Data Center
Since 1999, Huffstetler has been a key figure in Intel’s data center. She supports the company’s edge computing technology, including expanding the Xeon processor family to meet the demand for edge power.
18、John Krafcik
Waymo CEO
As a key figure in the field of driverless cars, Krafcik is committed to pushing edge companies to propose new solutions to support their development in the field of driverless cars. He and his team are working together to build the most experienced driver in the world: the car itself is powered by the on-board edge computing system and the surrounding infrastructure.
19、John Roese
Chief Technology Officer of Dell EMC and CloudFoundry
Roese leads Dell EMC’s hardware and platform engineering, telecom and xSP research and development, and advanced innovation. He is also responsible for formulating the company’s technology strategy in cloud, big data and trusted IT. In CloudFroundry, he is responsible for supervising the works of thousands of developers around the world, who are working on the building blocks of marginal economy while using open source software.
20、Jonathan Mauck
General manager of Digital Bridge
Mauck has more than 20 years of working experience as an entrepreneur, consultant and investor in technology and communication infrastructure. He is MD of Digital Bridge, a leading edge investor, and also the chief investment officer of the data center platform. He is also a board member and chief investment officer of DataBank, a provider of edge data center solutions.
21、Josh Snowhorn
Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of EdgeMicro
With nearly 20 years of experience, Snowhorn has always been one of the most influential brands in the field of "edge" computing. He is the founder of EdgeMicro, a mobile edge hosting company, and a member of the board of directors of the Global Peer-to-Peer Forum.
22、Karthik Suri
Chief operating officer of GE digital company
Suri has served as an executive in world-renowned companies such as eBay, PayPal and Yahoo. Today, he is one of the major revolutionaries of General Electric Company. He uses General Electric’s Predix based on the cloud platform (PaaS) to promote the company’s edge computing product portfolio. This platform is suitable for industrial Internet of Things applications, which combines people, machines, big data and analysis. Suri is also a member of the Steering Committee of the Industrial Internet Alliance.
23、Kevin Brown
Senior Vice President and CTO of Schneider Electric IT Department
Brown is responsible for promoting the innovation of Schneider Electric IT department, managing the R&D product portfolio, and promoting the company to formulate the overall portfolio strategy for the data center market. He supports the brand’s biggest driving force in the edge data center, and is also a fanatical industry thought leader on this topic.
24、Kim Polese
Chairman of CrowdSmart board of directors
Polese is one of the executives in Silicon Valley. Now he is the chairman of the board of directors of the investment company CrowdSmart. The company has invested in several startups led by Polese, including Syntiant, which combines semiconductor expertise with the latest machine learning progress to migrate machine learning from the cloud to edge devices.
25、Laila Worrell
Chief operating officer of Aricent
Worrell is one of the main opinions of Aricent, a design and engineering company for 5G, mobile access, core network, edge computing and data center. She is in charge of the company’s strategy, technology and operation. She was a partner and managing director of Boston Consulting Group, focusing on investment and private equity.
26、Lee Hetherington
Facebook marginal strategy
Facebook is the largest social media platform in the world, with more than 2 billion users. Hetherington is an important team member, responsible for the company’s edge and caching strategy in the global IP network and CDNMEA.
27、Lee Kok Sun
GIC Real Estate Chief Investment Officer
GIC is a global long-term investor with more than $100 billion in assets. By helping to guide the establishment of the $2 billion fund of EdgeCore Internet Real Estate (LLC), Sun has played an important role in introducing edge computing projects to the company, and EdgeCore Internet Real Estate Co., Ltd. has become one of the largest edge computing investments.
28、Lew Tucker
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cisco Cloud Computing
Tucker is responsible for helping shape the future of cloud and enterprise software strategy on the global stage. He has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, from distributed edge systems and AI to software development and system architecture.
29、Lior Fite
CEO and Founder of Saguna Networks
With 25 years of rich experience, Fite spent ten years in charge of Saguna Networks, a company he founded to accelerate the connection of multiple access edge computing by using intelligent NFV software solutions. The company has become a leader in the edge computing market, and cooperated with AWS and HPE to develop edge solutions.
30、Maggie Buggie
Senior Vice President, Global Head of Leonardo Services, SAP
The edge services of German software multinational companies and the edge platform components of SAP cloud platform together constitute the SAP Leonardo edge of the Internet of Things, which is an end-to-end solution for edge computing of the Internet of Things.
31、Marc Rouanne
President of Nokia Mobile Network
Rouanne has more than 20 years of international management experience in the telecommunications industry, and has held R&D, customer operation and product management positions in the United States, France and Finland. Today, he leads Nokia’s investment in new technologies, including the deployment of peripheral environments.
32、Martin Fink
Chief technology officer of Western Digital
Fink, a former HP executive, led the technological innovation agenda of Western Digital, which constantly changed its business and expanded its functions and technologies. At the same time, he is one of the main revolutionaries of edge computing and open source technology, and brought these technologies into Western Digital.
33、Martin Olsen
General manager of Vertiv global edge and integration solutions
Olsen focuses on providing integrated physical infrastructure, deployment services, management and coordination strategies to support cloud computing at the edge of the network using Vertiv solutions. He has held leading roles in infrastructure technology companies in the United States, Germany, Singapore and Denmark.
34、Mike McBride
Director of Technology Innovation and Strategy of Huawei
In recent years, McBride has become one of the key figures in the field of edge computing. He provided edge computing and future network research and standardization in IETF, IIC and BBF.
35、Nitu Kaushal
Vodafone Global Enterprise Internet of Things UK Sales Director
Kaushal is a strategic leader with more than 16 years of telecom business experience, specializing in cloud product management, unified communications, connectivity, management services and products based on the Internet of Things. Since 2014, she has been working in Vodafone, and has held different positions for many years, including leading product management, transformation, cloud computing and host portfolio of the Internet of Things.
36、Phill Lawson-Shanks
Chief innovation officer of EdgeConneX
Lawson-Shanks designs and deploys industry-leading solutions for the United Kingdom and the United States. At EdgeConneX, he is one of the main faces of the company, and he claims his name on the world’s leading thought leadership web page, with unparalleled professional knowledge.
37、Rhonda Dirvin
Head of ARM IOT and embedded system
Dirvin is a veteran in the electronics industry and an intellectual in the field of edge computing. She is the chairman of the board of directors of OpenFog Alliance, and is committed to promoting the development and deployment of fog computing technologies in an open architecture. At ARM, she helped semiconductor companies become the core of the edge computing movement through smart marketing and strategy.
38、Rick Clemmer
CEO of NXP Semiconductors
Clemmer has been working in the semiconductor field for more than 30 years. He leads NXP’s edge efforts today, including a unified and extensible device management solution around containers and EdgeScale, an edge application, enabling OEMs and developers to take advantage of cloud computing frameworks such as AWS Greengrass, Azure IoT and Aliyun on NXP Layerscape devices.
39、Robert High
IBM researcher, vice president and chief technology officer of IBM Institute of Technology.
High has 37 years of programming experience, and has been using component-based distribution and object-oriented transaction monitor for the past 26 years. At IBM, he was fully responsible for promoting Watson, a powerful artificial intelligence tool to help understand the edge data technology strategy and ideological leadership.
40、Satyen Yadav
General IOT devices, edge computing and AWS service edge service machine learning.
Yadav has more than 20 years of experience, and has achieved remarkable success in introducing innovative products and services and promoting business growth, leading many business transformations. At AWS, he led the Edge computing and machine learning P&L of global products, industrial Internet of Things, IoT devices and Edge business.
41、Scott Guthrie
Executive Vice President of Microsoft Cloud and AI Group
Guthrie is one of the key figures in Microsoft’s cloud business. He is responsible for the company’s computing architecture (cloud and edge, including cloud infrastructure, server, database, CRM, ERP, management) and AI platform (infrastructure, framework, tools and higher-level services around perception, knowledge and cognition).
42、Serge Willenegger
Vice President of Qualcomm 4G/5G and Industrial Internet of Things
The connectivity of the edge will be the basis of its diffusion, and Serge is one of the industry leaders to achieve this goal. He led Qualcomm to play a role in the 4G field and transform to 5G, and the entire IOT ecosystem that accompanied it. Serge helped launch Qualcomm Wireless Edge Service, which aims to help users configure and manage a large number of connected devices.
43、Sharif Fotouh
Founder and CEO of Compass EdgePoint
Fotouh, a data center and telecom expert, and former Google employees have become celebrities in the industry because of their knowledge and experience of more than ten years. Recently, he founded EdgePoint, an edge computing company, which was acquired by Compass Datacenters in February 2018.
44、Tobias Knaup
Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Mesosphere
From San Francisco to the whole world, Knaup has helped to build the Mesosphere platform, which aims to unify public and private clouds into a single resource pool, helping to make the edge framework clearer and easier to manage. He is an experienced software engineer, focusing on large-scale systems and machine learning. Knaup has also helped to expand Airbnb to millions of users around the world and become a technology leader.
45、Tom Ray
Chairman and CEO of EdgeCore Internet Real Estate
Ray is the co-founder of EdgeCore, with over $10 billion experience in institutional real estate, including over $5 billion in data center industry. Ray has helped the company set the host power requirements closer to users.
46、Toshihisa Adachi
President and CEO of Global IoT Technology Ventures
As an operator in the financial and investment fields, Adachi has more than 15 years of experience in venture capital cooperation, and has professional knowledge in IT and software services. He has been involved in investing in global edge computing companies, including the Japanese AI deep learning startup LeapMind.
47、Trent Vichie
Co-founder and Co-CEO of Stone Peak Infrastructure Partners
Vichie has 20 years of experience in investing in infrastructure. He has led the investment of marginal players in North America, including Vertical Bridge, Cologix and euNetworks. Vichie is currently on the board of directors of Carlsbad desalination project, Cologix, euNetworks, Extenet Systems and Vertical Bridge.
48、Vlad Friedman
Chief technology officer of DataBank
Friedman is an experienced IT veteran with more than 25 years of mission-critical IT experience. He joined DataBank as chief technology officer in September 2017 and acquired Edge Hosting. As the chief technology officer of DataBank, Friedman is responsible for guiding the development, implementation and management of the company’s overall technology strategy.
49、Willem Hendrickx
CEO and co-founder of GiG Tech
Hendrickx lives in Antwerp and has been an executive in global information and communication technology companies for more than 20 years. He founded GIG Tech, the world’s first company, and built a private, neutral and green Internet based on its edge computing operating system and software architecture.
50、Yuval Bachar
Chief Engineer of Open19 Foundation, Data Center Architecture, Linkedin and President and Chairman of the Board of Directors.
Bachar in San Francisco has 30 years’ experience in helping enterprises build Internet, data center and marginal industries. He is the chairman of the board of directors of the Open19 Foundation, a non-profit hardware and software sharing community for data centers and edge solutions, helping to provide many breakthrough technologies used in the edge field.