As the Chairman and CEO, Earl Galleher leads the company's global expansion, and drives the commercial adoption of Basho's internet-scale database, Riak. Prior to Basho Technologies, Earl served as Executive Vice President at Akamai Technologies, Inc. in addition to being a Series A investor. Working with Akamai's founders prior to incorporation, he began as a consultant before joining the organization full time and played a vital role in establishing Akamai as the global leader in Content Delivery Network services.

Mr. Galleher's record of success in developing valuable Internet companies began in 1996 when he created and was President of the Web Site Management Services Division of Digex, Inc. He led Digex, now part of Verizon Communications, to become the world’s largest provider of dedicated Web Site Management Services for Fortune 2000 corporations.

You can follow Earl on Twitter at @bashot

As Chief Operating Officer, Tony directs product delivery, service delivery and oversees marketing for Basho. He has fifteen years of experience in the development of successful early-stage businesses. Prior to Basho Technologies, he held senior management positions at Akamai Technologies, DIGEX (now Verizon Business), and Oplayo, OY, a Helsinki-based start-up. As Vice President of Technical Services at Akamai, Tony designed and led the group that delivered Akamai’s award-winning service, support, and consulting offering.

Later, as Vice President of Product Management at Akamai, Tony oversaw delivery to market of EdgeSuite, the successor to Akamai’s initial product offering, Freeflow. He also led the integration of products from two acquisitions (Intervu and Network24) into the Akamai product portfolio. At DIGEX, Tony designed and led the Strategic Accounts Group, an organization providing high-end services to strategic and high-value accounts.

Tony is also on Twitter. You can follow him at @antonyfalco.

Justin Sheehy is Basho’s Chief Technology Officer. Justin came to Basho from the MITRE Corporation, where as a principal scientist he managed large research projects for the U.S. Intelligence Community including such efforts as high assurance platforms, automated defensive cyber response, and cryptographic protocol analysis. He was central to MITRE’s development of research for mission assurance against sophisticated threats, the flagship program of which successfully proposed and created methods for building resilient networks of web services.

Before working for MITRE, Justin worked at a series of technology companies including five years at Akamai Technologies, where he was a senior architect for systems infrastructure giving Justin a broad as well as deep background in distributed systems. Justin was a key contributor to the technology that enabled fast growth of Akamai’s networks and services while allowing support costs to stay low. Justin performed both undergraduate and postgraduate studies in Computer Science at Northeastern University.

If you want to keep tabs on Justin, you can follow him on Twitter.

Marisa Linardos is responsible for managing Basho Technologies’ Finance, Human Resource, and Office Management functions. Marisa has 15 years of Finance and Accounting experience at start-ups and international consultancies specializing in financial planning and analysis, cash management, and financial reporting.

Prior to Basho, Marisa was Corporate Finance Manager at Monitor Company Group where she was responsible for Monitor’s worldwide financial reporting, budgeting, analysis, and modeling for the consulting partnership. Prior to Monitor, Marisa provided financial consulting services to TIAX LLC, and held several corporate and operational Finance positions at Arthur D. Little. Marisa holds a BS in Accounting and an MBA from Bentley College.

Andy Gross is Basho's VP of Engineering, managing the design and development of Basho's Open Source and Enterprise data storage systems. Andy started at Basho in December of 2007 with 10 years of software and distributed systems engineering experience.

Prior to Basho, Andy held senior distributed systems engineering positions at Mochi Media, Apple, Inc., and Akamai Technologies.

Andy blogs a http://blog.argv0.net and is @argv0 on Twitter.

Dean is charged with generating revenue, growing market share, and building successful partnerships and alliances for Basho. Dean brings 20 years of experience in the tech sphere, and over a dozen in web-facing businesses. Prior to joining Basho in April 2010, he served as Chief of Operations for Snapfish by HP, where he was responsible for the delivery of all Snapfish products, services and customer support across 22 countries.

In earlier roles, Dean served as the Director of Production Operations at LookSmart, LTD. where he oversaw the transition of proprietary architectures to an open-source infrastructure and contributed to growing that search infrastructure to support more than 600 million searches per day. He also worked for Akamai Technologies, where he built their scalable internal IT organization and led Akamai's Systems Engineering team, which provided the command and control software for Akamai's distributed network. Dean studied Physics and Computer Engineering at Case Western Reserve University and attended Northeastern University's College of Computer and Information Science.

You can follow Dean on Twitter. He tweets as @deancookson

Bryan joined Basho in February of 2008. Since then he has been an integral part of the software team. Before Basho, Bryan worked for software companies in the financial, hardware testing, and telecom industries. Bryan graduated from MIT in 2004.

When he's not coding on Webmachine and Riak, Bryan brews beer, cooks, drums, and makes things out of wood. He also blogs on the BeerRiot Blog and tweets as @hobbyist.

John came to Basho from Engine Yard, where he used his ten years of experience supporting open source projects to help develop a world class support organization that managed over 2000 virtual servers. After spending two years as a manager in support, John transitioned to being the release manager of Engine Yard's stack. There he introduced a time based release schedule and QA process around one of Engine Yard's core products.

At Basho, he is using this knowledge to build a proactive support team focused on developing great documentation, reusable code examples, and the best customer service practices ever to be offered by a software company.

John can be found on Twitter as @hornbeck.

Sean joined Basho in March 2010 after three years as a freelance web developer, in the course of which he worked on numerous startups and open-source projects, including the popular Radiant content management system which is built with Ruby on Rails. Prior to that, he studied Music Theory and Composition at the graduate level and directed a chorus after receiving bachelors degrees in Computer Science and Music from the University of Tulsa

Sean brings his practical experience in building scalable web applications, passion for educating others, and broad theoretical knowledge of technical topics to the role of Developer Advocate. He can often be found speaking at conferences and other events on Riak, and enjoys playing the piano in his free time.

Sean blogs at seancribbs.com and is on Twitter as @seancribbs

Prior to joining Basho, Rusty served as Director of Software Development at Datran Media, where he lead the team that built Datran's performance-based marketing engine, re-architected Datran's operational data warehouse, and provided technical leadership to replace Microsoft's global commercial email engine with StormPost, a Datran product. Before that, he served as Chief Software Architect at Intwine Corporation, and has been involved in numerous startups.

Rusty is the author of a number of open source projects, the most popular of which is the Nitrogen Web Framework for Erlang. He is a well-known figure in the Erlang community and has spoken at Erlang conferences in London, San Francisco, and Stockholm.

Rusty graduated from Princeton University with a degree in Computer Science/Engineering. To learn more about Rusty, you can follow him on Twitter or read his blog.

Since joining the Basho engineering team in February of 2008, John has subsumed, nay, embraced the role of research engineer; transmuting idea into reality is par for the course. Previous to Basho, John spent a handful of years as a freelance consultant servicing mainly e-commerce sites including some of the largest online retailers of their kind. Before that, he climbed the ranks as a developer at the largest health care company in the world.

He is an alumnus of the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin where he studied computer science, psychology, film and music. When he's not hacking, you can probably find him in the music studio he has built over the years. He tweets on Twitter as @jrecursive.

Mark has been with Basho since early 2008 and is now the Community Manager. He is responsible for engaging with and growing a powerful network of developers and building out the collaborative infrastructure around Riak and Basho's other open source technologies.

Mark is proud to be an alumnus of Syracuse University, where he studied Political Science and la langue française.

You can follow Mark on Twitter. He tweets as @pharkmillups

Daniel joined Basho in June 2010 after becoming actively involved in the Basho community. For the year prior to joining Basho he was building applications using many of the tools built by Basho including Rebar, Webmachine, and most importantly Riak. Before that, Daniel worked in the support and services groups of SugarCRM and Parametric Technology Corporation. Daniel graduated from Boston University in 2004 with a degree in Aerospace Engineering.

You can follow Daniel on Twitter at @reverri.

Grant joined Basho in early 2010 with over 10 years experience in developing and building scalable systems from the ground up. After beginning his career as the sysadmin at a small ISP he moved on to ITA Software where he developed his holistic view for building fault-tolerant systems. After ITA, Grant moved on to work for RiskMetrics Group, Berkeley Communications, and finally Engine Yard before joining Basho. Though he will always be a sysadmin at heart, Grant loves hacking in several languages and is very active in his local tech community.

You can find Grant on Twitter as @schofield

Dave joined Basho in December of 2009. He has a broad range of experience in several fields including real-time messaging systems, identity federation and authentication and low-latency peer-to-peer datastores.

Dave has spent a lot of time working on Open Source projects. You can find his current work on both github and bitbucket as dizzyd.

Dave blogs at http://dizzyd.com and tweets as @dizzyco.

Kevin Smith has, at various times, been a network administrator, DBA, developer, team lead and trainer over his 14 year career. He first learned about Erlang in 2006 via Joe Armstrong's excellent book and has never looked back. Until recently Kevin was the founder and operator of Hypothetical Labs, an Erlang focused consultancy. Kevin is now a senior member of the development team at Basho Technologies where he works daily to make Riak the best datastore possible.

Kevin maintains a personal blog and is known as @kevsmith on Twitter.