Mark is a founding developer and Chief Architect at RainStor. He was formerly a team leader at QinetiQ in the UK, where he led several government and industry projects in the areas of grid and pervasive computing. Prior to joining QinetiQ, Mark was a senior scientist at the UK Defence Evaluation and Research Agency, where he researched parallel and distributed simulation techniques. Mark holds a Masters in Computing and a PhD in Computational Physics from Newcastle University. He recently led the engineering effort to port RainStor’s big-data database to run natively on the Hadoop platform. Mark is located at RainStor’s HQ in San Francisco, CA.