Scott Yara

In his role as vice-president of products for EMC's Data Computing Division, Scott Yara is responsible for the product development and marketing strategies. He is a co-founder of Greenplum and was president of the company.

Prior to Greenplum, Mr. Yara served as vice-president for Digital Island, a publicly traded Internet infrastructure services company that was acquired by Cable & Wireless in 2001. His background includes more than 12 years of experience in helping to develop and bringing to market Internet-scale, high-performance computing technologies. Prior to Digital Island, he served as vice-president for Sandpiper Networks, an Internet content delivery services company that merged with Digital Island in 1999. At Sandpiper, Scott helped to create the industry's first content delivery network (CDN), a globally distributed computing infrastructure comprised of several thousand servers, and used by many of the industry's largest Internet services including Microsoft and Disney.