Mitch Hill: Chief Executive Officer

Hill brings more than 30 years of executive leadership experience in high-growth, technology companies. He previously served as CEO of Avanade, a technology services joint venture between Accenture and Microsoft, and was responsible for launching the company in 2000. As the founding CEO of Avanade, he led the team that created a billion-dollar technology services firm successfully providing infrastructure, development and business solutions built on Microsoft technology. He was also managing partner for Accenture's electronics and high tech business in the western United States. Since retiring from Avanade he has served as an advisor to a number of technology start ups in the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Hill earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Information Systems from California State Polytechnic University in Pomona.

Adam Jacob: Chief Customer Officer

Adam Jacob is a co-founder of Opscode and the creator of Chef. Prior to Opscode, he founded HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy. During two years at HJK, he built new infrastructures for 15 different startups. Including his time at HJK, Adam has 13 years of experience as a systems administrator, systems architect, and tools developer. He has been responsible for large production infrastructures, internal corporate automation, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts.

Christopher Brown: Chief Technology Officer

Christopher Brown joins Opscode from Microsoft, where he was a Director of Engineering for the Edge Computing Network within Global Foundation Services. Prior to Microsoft, Christopher was a Founding Member, Architect, and Lead Developer for Amazon.com's Elastic Compute Cloud ("EC2"). Christopher has 18 years of software engineering and leadership experience and holds several patents in the areas of Internet routing, VM/runtime hosting, content delivery and cloud computing.

Jesse Robbins: Chief Community Officer

Jesse Robbins is a co-founder and served as Opscode's founding CEO. Prior to Opscode, he worked at Amazon.com with a title of "Master of Disaster" where he was responsible for website availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand. He has served as creator & founding co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O'Reilly Radar.

Todd Feinroth: Chief Revenue Officer

Todd is responsible for establishing and executing Opscode's global multi-channel revenue strategy, including direct and strategic alliance/channel sales, professional services and technical pre-sales. He comes to Opscode with over 15 years of enterprise sales and management experience in the IT infrastructure space. Todd was SVP of Sales and Alliances at Edifecs, driving revenue growth from 11M to 46M in 2 years. Prior to that Todd was a key contributor to enterprise sales execution at Opsware, a leading data center automation software vendor acquired by Hewlett Packard in 2007. In 2002, Todd was responsible for launching the enterprise sales strategy at Rendition Networks, a Redmond, WA venture-funded software company that developed the leading network configuration change control solution.

Barry Steinglass: VP of Product Development

Barry Steinglass is a co-founder of Opscode and a veteran manager of software product development teams. Prior to founding Opscode, he was Senior Partner at HJK Solutions, an infrastructure automation consultancy. Before that, he was an early member of the Xbox Platform team at Microsoft, where he helped create the Xbox, Xbox Live, the Xbox 360, and the Xbox 360 HD DVD player. Before that, he was a part of the team that delivered Exchange Server 2000, where he was responsible for the server administration APIs. He has broad experience across many types of products and customers, including enterprise server products, consumer electronics, software services, and developer platforms.

George Moberly: VP of Product Management

George Moberly is a 25-year industry veteran with product leadership experience in infrastructure automation and a strong track record in delivering enterprise software solutions. Moberly previously served as director of product management at F5 Networks, where he was responsible for overall strategy and delivery of F5's management and orchestration product offerings. Prior to his tenure at F5, he was vice president of product management at CloudSwitch, where he was responsible for driving products from initial concept to market as a founding member of the company. Moberly also served as director of service automation product management at BMC Software, which acquired BladeLogic. At BladeLogic, he was responsible for product management for the BladeLogic Suite leading up to and following the successful 2007 initial public offering.

Jay Wampold: VP of Marketing

Jay joins Opscode to lead outbound marketing and communications. He previously served as Senior Director of Marketing and Communications for Isilon Systems, which was recently acquired by EMC Corporation for more than two billion dollars. At Isilon, Jay led outbound marketing and was instrumental in creating the scale-out storage market and played a key role in the company's successful IPO. Prior to Isilon, he was a Partner and Senior Vice President of New York-based SS+K Communications, where he ran the agency's technology practice. Prior to SS+K, Jay was Director of Communications for RealNetworks, serving a key role in creating and leading the Internet media delivery market, and helping to guide the company through its IPO.

Bryan Hale: Director of Business Development

Bryan Hale joins Opscode from Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), a premier early stage venture capital firm. Prior to joining DFJ, Bryan worked in the Corporate Development group at salesforce.com where he led valuation and due diligence efforts for several of the Company's first acquisitions. Previously, Bryan was in the Global Technology Group at UBS Investment Bank.

Carolyn Scurrell: Director of Finance

Carolyn has 25 years of experience across a multitude of industries and functions. Most notably, she was the Director of Finance at Real Networks and helped guide that company through $50M in private financings and a successful IPO. Since then, she has run finance at venture-backed companies such as ViAir and Lockerz, and consulted for NetMotion Wireless, Scout Analytics, CarDomain and others.

Carolyn is a graduate of Xavier University and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Jesse Robbins: Chief Community Officer

Jesse Robbins is a co-founder and served as Opscode's founding CEO. Prior to Opscode, he worked at Amazon.com with a title of "Master of Disaster" where he was responsible for website availability for every property bearing the Amazon brand. He has served as creator & founding co-chair of the Velocity Web Performance & Operations Conference and contributes to the O'Reilly Radar.

Adam Jacob: Chief Customer Officer

Adam Jacob is a co-founder of Opscode and the creator of Chef. Prior to Opscode, he founded HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy. During two years at HJK, he built new infrastructures for 15 different startups. Including his time at HJK, Adam has 13 years of experience as a systems administrator, systems architect, and tools developer. He has been responsible for large production infrastructures, internal corporate automation, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance efforts.

Barry Steinglass: VP of Product Development

Barry Steinglass is a co-founder of Opscode and a veteran manager of software product development teams. Prior to founding Opscode, he was Senior Partner at HJK Solutions, an infrastructure automation consultancy. Before that, he was an early member of the Xbox Platform team at Microsoft, where he helped create the Xbox, Xbox Live, the Xbox 360, and the Xbox 360 HD DVD player. Before that, he was a part of the team that delivered Exchange Server 2000, where he was responsible for the server administration APIs. He has broad experience across many types of products and customers, including enterprise server products, consumer electronics, software services, and developer platforms.

Nathan Haneysmith: Founder

Nathan Haneysmith is a co-founder of Opscode and a seasoned system architect and leader of technical support teams. Prior to Opscode, he was a founder at HJK Solutions, an automated infrastructure consultancy. Before that, Nathan was the Linux Platform Lead for IBM e-Business Web Hosting and supported environments for a variety of high tech startups as well as Fortune 500 companies. His background includes a wide range of enterprise and open source platforms and products.