Tom Fisher CTO, MapR

MapR Technologies, Inc. announced the appointment of Tom Fisher as CTO.

He brings over 20 years of technology experience in engineering, operations, and IT. In his role , he will spearhead initiatives around advancing MapR’s innovation agenda globally.

“We are thrilled to have an executive with Tom’s credentials join our leadership team at MapR,” said Matt Mills, CEO. “His depth of technology expertise, focus on the customer and overall leadership will be instrumental to our growth as we extend our product platform to support breakthrough, next gen applications that bring even more value to our customers. Tom’s background with eBay, SuccessFactors, Qualcomm and Oracle provide a deep, diverse technology and customer foundation for helping drive our agenda.”

Fisher was previously with Oracle where he was a senior executive in engineering and operations for over five years, most recently driving the adoption of new and emerging technologies at the company’s top 40 cloud customers globally. He was also Oracle’s SVP and CIO for global commercial cloud services focusing on improving service delivery through automation and direction action with customers. Prior to joining Oracle, he served as CIO and VP of cloud computing at SuccessFactors, now SAP, where he ran cloud operations as well as emerging technologies in product engineering. Additionally, he led technology teams at Qualcomm as CIO of CDMA technologies, and with eBay where he was VP and acting CTO.

“I’m thrilled to join during this exciting stage of growth for the company,” said Fisher. “The enterprise focus, level of innovation, and collaboration that drives MapR are impressive. I look forward to working with this talented team, engaging directly with companies worldwide to help customers achieve success with our product and SI partners. MapR’s enterprise, purpose-built platform is the future of applications delivered using the latest technologies while promoting platform and cloud independence.”