EDB Technical Fellow
Marc Linster, Ph.D. was EDB’s Chief Technology Officer. Marc led EDB's Office of the CTO, where he and his team of PostgreSQL experts work with key customers and strategic partners on providing strategic technical direction, visionary thought leadership and leveraging key technology trends to drive business growth. Marc has an extensive background in engineering, technology and consulting, with over 20 years of management experience. Before joining EDB, he spent four years at Polycom, the leading maker of video communications equipment, where he was a Senior Director, Engineering for Cloud and Hosted Solutions. Before Polycom, Marc was Co-founder and President of TriPoint Interactive, a global supply chain consulting and systems integration company. He spent six years at Avicon Group, first as CTO and then as Vice President of Operations. Marc holds a Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat) in Computer Sciences from the University of Kaiserslautern in Germany.
Field CTO, APJ
EDB
Ajit is an accomplished IT executive, strategist, advisor and evangelist with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. He advises organizations on their open source database and analytics strategy and technology deployments. He is passionate about data and cloud technologies. His expertise and practice areas include digital transformation, cloud, observability and datastore.