Evan Powell is the CEO and Co-Founder of StackStorm, a software company leading the third wave of operations automation and delivering the increased productivity of DevOps approaches to a broader market. StackStorm software is currently available via a private, invitation-only beta. Interested users can request an invitation at: www.stackstorm.com/beta. Previously, as founding CEO of Nexenta Systems, Evan led the transformation of the storage industry towards a software defined future and achieved an excess of $350 million in partner sales. Prior to Nexenta, Evan was founding CEO of performance management software company Clarus Systems, now owned by Riverbed Technologies. Evan was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by the leading European venture fund Finaves in 2010 and was named one of the Top Ten Leaders in Storage in 2012.