Mark Kaufman SVP Engineering, NuoDB

NuoDB, Inc., the elastic SQL database company for cloud applications, announced the addition of Mark Kaufman as SVP of engineering.

With more than 30 years of software development experience, he is suited to spearhead the development of NuoDB’s technology, designed to maintain the transactional consistency and durability that databases of record demand, while offering customers the scale-out simplicity, elasticity, and continuous availability that cloud applications require.

He comes from HPE where he served as VP of engineering with responsibility for information management products. Previously, he was SVP of engineering and GM at Iron Mountain, overseeing development of all digital data protection products. He also served as EVP of engineering and interim CEO at ExaGrid and has held senior engineering management roles at a number of organizations including EMC Corporation, Dolphin Interconnect Solutions and Kendall Square Research.

In his new role, he will be responsible for advancing NuoDB’s technology to drive the company’s revenue growth while maintaining high quality, increasing customer value, and expanding the company’s international development team.

A savvy senior executive, he is well versed in all aspects of building software teams, products, and companies.

As the holder of eight patents, he also has a track record of innovation and delivering new products to market including cloud-based enterprise backup, storage network virtualization, networking, development tools, and parallel processing/supercomputing products.

“We are confident in Mark’s ability to deliver on our vision for NuoDB today and in the future as demand for modern infrastructures accelerates. His rich engineering experience and proven business acumen is a true asset to both our product development and leadership teams,” said Bob Walmsley, president and CEO. “Most importantly, customers will greatly benefit from Mark’s innovative contributions to further extend the value of our elastic SQL database, purpose-built for modern applications.”

“NuoDB sits at the enviable intersection of technology that’s architecturally interesting and addresses a critical market with a product that delivers genuine value to customers,” said Kaufman. “I’m looking forward to expanding our market reach by capitalizing on NuoDB’s unique technology foundation.“