Marc Fleischmann Board’s Director, Liqid

Liqid Inc. welcomed VMware cloud CTO Marc Fleischmann as a member of the company’s board of directors.

With a technology career spanning IT infrastructure, cloud and data services, ML and analytics, and global IT business services, he will collaborate with the board and the company’s leadership team to identify new opportunities to expand Liqid Matrix composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) software into new solutions and services for Liqid’s customers and partners.

“Marc’s expertise will be invaluable as Liqid continues to expand our footprint from edge to cloud and everywhere in between, and we are excited to welcome Marc to the Liqid board,” said Sumit Puri, CEO and co-founder. “As a technology leader at VMware, Marc intimately understands the challenges IT is facing and how new solutions like CDI are being incorporated into the data center in tandem with virtualization, AI, and other high-value applications. We look forward to working with him as CDI becomes central to evolving data center architectures.“

At VMware, Fleischmann is the CTO for business franchises within the organization such as VMware Managed Cloud (VMC – on AWS, Azure, and GCP), the VMware Cloud Provider Program (VCPP, a $10 billion ecosystem), Cloud Foundation (VCF) private clouds, HCI, vSphere, and vSAN.

Before joining VMware as cloud CTO, he was founder and CEO for storage software company Datera, and social gaming company Smeet. He is also a founder of Europe’s largest open-source ecosystem hub, the Open Source Business Alliance, which has more than 150 active members across the continent. He has also held positions at Innotek, Microsoft, Pixelworks, Transmeta, and HPE.

“As AI is infused into every element of the enterprise, organizations need innovative new ways to approach infrastructure that are more dynamic and flexible, while also making responsible choices when weaving together solutions for sustainable data center ecosystems that can answer the proliferation of data,” he said. “I look forward to working with the Liqid team to identify growth opportunities for their composable disaggregated infrastructure solutions, forge powerful industry alliances, and better understand how CDI thrives in an edge-to-cloud world.”