Steve Mitzenmacher has become senior vice-president for corporate development, venture investments and strategic partnerships at US-headquartered cloud computing services provider Rackspace Technology.
Prior to joining Rackspace, Mitzenmacher was at NetApp, a Nasdaq-listed storage and data management technology provider, for nine years as vice-president of corporate development and strategy, his investments including Memverge, Portworx, Pensando, SnapLogic, Egnyte and Datos IO, the data management software provider since acquired by Rubrik.
Between 2009 and 2011, Mitzenmacher spent two years at internet company Yahoo where he spun out its Hadoop Engineering team into a startup funded by venture capital firm Benchmark before its eventual listing and then acquisition by Cloudera.
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