Tom Ryan has spent his career building companies based on disruptive technology, focusing for the last five years on big data and machine learning. He has been in senior management positions for four successful venture-backed exits, generating over a billion dollars in return. Tom was previously at Alpine Data Labs, where he led the company to be recognized as a machine learning, predictive analytics leader on Hadoop. At Argyle Data, he has combined his big data experience from Alpine with earlier experience in the enterprise application space to deliver the world's leading native Hadoop fraud and revenue analytics application that has leapfrogged previous data warehouse and relational approaches. Prior to leading Argyle Data, Tom served as president and CEO of Alpine Data Labs, Fanfare Software, and Actional Corporation. Tom has also held executive management positions at Kintana, Manugistics, Talus Solutions, and Cadence Design Systems.