Dr. Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, CEO and Founder of LeanXcale, was a professor and researcher in distributed systems and distributed data management for over 20 years and recently abandoned his research and academic career to bring LeanXcale technology to the market. Dr. Jimenez has been an invited speaker at top tech companies in Silicon Valley such as Facebook, Twitter, Salesforce, Cloudera, HortonWorks, MapR, HP, Heroku, Microsoft, EMC-Greenplum (now EMC-Pivotal)and others in recent years. He is also a member of the cloud experts committee advising the European Commission on the next research challenges in cloud, software, and services. He has co-authored a book on database replication, and over 150 research papers and has been co-inventor of two revolutionary database patents.