Entrepreneur with a technical background and a strong interest in business

Board Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer @ From June 2013 to Present (2 years 7 months) CEO and Founder @ From June 2008 to June 2013 (5 years 1 month) Vice President, Embedded Technologies @ Worked with Oracle's new Embedded Global Business Unit in the wake of the acquisition of Sleepycat. From February 2006 to January 2008 (2 years) CEO @ First full-time employee; VP Sales and Marketing from 1998 to 2000, CEO thereafter. Negotiated sale of company to Oracle Corporation in February 2006. From January 1998 to February 2006 (8 years 2 months) Vice President, Engineering @ Ran the development team for a biotechnology company focused on informatics to help drug companies understand disease pathways and develop drugs. From February 1996 to May 1997 (1 year 4 months) Director, Datablades Business Unit @ Oversaw the development and marketing of third-party extensions to the Informix database product line ("datablades") after Informix's acquisition of Illustra Information Technologies. From January 1996 to February 1997 (1 year 2 months) Architect @ From 1993 to 1997 (4 years) Architect @ Software developer and architect for the first company to commercialize the Postgres database engine. Transitioned to marketing and sales support during my tenure. From June 1993 to December 1995 (2 years 7 months) Software Engineer @ From 1986 to 1988 (2 years)

MS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science @ University of California, Berkeley From 1991 to 1993 BA, Computer Science @ University of California, Berkeley From 1979 to 1991 Mike Olson is skilled in: Sales, Enterprise Software, Cloud Computing, Hadoop, Big Data, Business Modeling, Databases, Scalability, Awesomeness