Biographical Sketch: Michael Howard is currently vice president of marketing at Greenplum, a division of EMC. Prior, he had an advisory position with EMC on the architecture and business development of Cloud offerings for their Information Intelligence Group. Formerly, Michael Howard was the CEO of Ingrian Networks (acquired by Safenet), CEO of Outerbay (acquired by HP), VP of the Internet Division at Veritas, and VP of Datawarehousing at Oracle. He serves on a number of boards, including Acunu, and Analytica.