The Kubernetes People.

Her experience includes CFO roles with Foley, Storwize (IBM), Virtual Iron (Oracle) and Ucentric (Motorola). She holds a B.S. in Accounting from University of Illinois and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University.

As CTO at Fairwinds, Andy Suderman guides organizations in adopting and managing Kubernetes effectively. He created Goldilocks, an open-source tool for optimizing Kubernetes workloads, and co-chairs the CNCF Policy Working Group and co-author of the CNCF Governance, Risk, and Compliance whitepaper.

Stevie Caldwell is a Tech Lead for Fairwinds' SRE team. She has worked with Kubernetes for 5 years, and has over 15 years of technical experience. She is a contributor to Fairwinds' open source projects. In her spare time she's also a rock star.

Melissa brings experience across Managed Services, GTM, SaaS, and consulting. As a liaison between customers and technical teams, she connects real customer needs with practical solutions. She combines a customer-centric approach with scalable execution to build repeatable, sustainable sales programs, drawing on experience with organizations from early-stage startups to mature enterprises.

Bill brings over 30 years of technology and security experience to his role as Chief Executive Officer at Fairwinds. He previously served as Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Engineering at Black Duck Software, an open source security company acquired by Synopsys. He has held executive / founder positions at Speechworks (acq. by Nuance), Virtual Iron (acq. by Oracle), Avalere (acq. by Iron Mountain) and Digital Guardian.

Bob is the Chairman of the Board at Fairwinds. Previously Bob was Executive Director for CA, after being Chairman and CEO of Veracode, which was acquired by CA in March 2017. Prior to Veracode, Bob was the CEO of Iron Mountain. He also held roles as Chairman and CEO of Connected Corporation (acq. by Iron Mountain) and as General Manager for Network and Service Management at Cisco. He serves on the Boards of At Scale, OneDB and EforAll Roxbury.

Rob Ketterson is a Board Member at Fairwinds. He has focused for 25 years on private investment opportunities in information technology, software and tech-enabled services. In 2010, Rob was Founding Partner at Volition Capital, a technology growth equity firm where he remains a senior advisor and board member to several portfolio companies. Rob’s additional board directorships include Cortera, Ensighten, PlayerLync, Swoogo and Vana Technologies.

Her experience includes CFO roles with Foley, Storwize (IBM), Virtual Iron (Oracle) and Ucentric (Motorola). She holds a B.S. in Accounting from University of Illinois and an MBA from Kellogg at Northwestern University.