Gary Orenstein

Gary Orenstein leads marketing at MemSQL across marketing strategy, growth, communications, and customer engagement. Before MemSQL, Gary was the Chief Marketing Officer at Fusion-io where he led global marketing activities. He also served as Senior Vice President of Products at Fusion-io during the company’s expansion to multiple product lines. Before that, Gary worked at infrastructure companies across file systems, caching, and high-speed networking. Earlier in his career he served as the vice president of marketing at Compellent.

Gary holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a master's in business administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Gary is a prolific writer and regularly contributes to industry publications and outlets like Network World, The Economist, CIO Review and VentureBeat. He has authored two books titled, "Building Real-Time Data Pipelines" and "IP Storage Networking." He was also the host of the popular Cloud Computing podcast, "The Cloud Computing Show," where he interviewed industry luminaries like Tien Tzuo, Founder and CEO, Zuora and Marten Mickos, CEO at HackerOne and former CEO MySQL.