Ben Golub
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Benjamin Golub is an American executive.
Biography[edit]
Golub graduated from Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, California in 1986.[1] His first job was cutting apricots near the site that now houses Apple headquarters. He graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in public policy from Princeton University. His undergraduate thesis work was on population growth problems in Kenya, where he spent several months researching, including time spent in Siaya District, the location of President Barack Obama’s ancestral village.[citation needed]
Golub was operations analyst at Sun Microsystems from 1990 through 1992. Golub holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a masters in public administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard.[2] While in graduate school in 1993, Golub was part of an effort to establish a business school in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.[citation needed] In 1995 he became product manager at Avid Technology. He joined VeriSign in 1997 and became chief marketing officer and senior vice president and general manager.[3]
In March 2005 Golub served as the president and chief executive officer of Plaxo, replacing Sean Parker’s role at the company.[4] Under Golub’s tenure, Plaxo reached profitability, grew to over 20 million users, and was acquired by Comcast Interactive Media in May 2008.[5][6][7] He left Plaxo in March 2010.[8]
In May 2010 Golub became the president and chief executive officer for Gluster, the commercial entity behind the GlusterFS cluster file system.[9][10][11] In September 2010 he was quoted as saying he thought enterprise data storage was "downright sexy".[12] He wrote a blog for Computer World in 2011 and 2012.[13] He served as CEO through the sale of Gluster to Red Hat in October 2011.[14][15]
Golub became president and chief executive officer of dotCloud, the commercial entity behind Docker technology, in July 2013.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Class of '86 Alumni". Monta Vista Alumni. Retrieved August 20, 20. Check date values in:
|accessdate=(help) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 "dotCloud Appoints Ben Golub as Chief Executive Officer". Press release. DotCloud. July 23, 2013. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Paul Roberts (November 18, 2002). "VeriSign lands two more trusted commerce companies". Computer World. IDG News Service. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Sarah Lacy (March 21, 2005). "Making Plaxo a Paying Proposition". Bloomberg Business Week. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ "Confirmed: Comcast Bought Plaxo, Deal Closed Today". Washington Post. May 15, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Sean Michael Kerner (January 6, 2006). "Ben Golub, President and CEO, Plaxo". Internet News. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ "Comcast buys social networking site Plaxo". Silicon Valley Business Journal. May 15, 2008. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Jason Kincaid (March 25, 2010). "Plaxo CEO Ben Golub Steps Down, To Be Replaced By Justin Miller". Tech Crunch. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Jason Kincaid (May 18, 2010). "Former Plaxo CEO Ben Golub Joins Gluster, An Open Source Storage Platform Startup". Tech Crunch. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ "Former Plaxo CEO takes top spot at Gluster". Silicon Valley Business Journal. May 19, 2010. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Bambi Francisco Roizen (May 19, 2010). "Former Plaxo CEO, Ben Golub, now at Gluster: Gluster - an open-source storage company - grabs seasoned social-networking executive". Vator News. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Ben Golub (September 21, 2010). "Confessions Of A Former Web 2.0 CEO". Forbes.com. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Ben Golub. "Storage in a Big Data World". Blog. Computer World. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ Scott Merill (June 28, 2012). "Anatomy Of An Open Source Acquisition: From GlusterFS To Red Hat Storage". Tech Crunch. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
- ↑ "Red Hat to Acquire Gluster". Press release. October 4, 2011. Retrieved August 20, 2013.
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