Mark Davis

Mark Davis is Distinguished Engineer at Dell following the acquisition of his big data analytics company, Kitenga. Mark founded Kitenga and served as CTO prior to the acquisition, designing and building the core Hadoop-based engine for the enrichment and analysis of unstructured data. Mark's career has included helping spin Inxight Software out of Xerox PARC (acquired by Business Objects) as Principal Engineer, as a Program Manager for SharePoint and enterprise search at Microsoft, and as a DARPA researcher focused on computational linguistics, search, and machine learning. Mark is the Big Data lead for the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative (CCI) and is a member of the executive committee for the IEEE Intercloud Interoperability Testbed.