Data-Intensive Distributed Systems LaboratoryRound Table Discussion with CS Board Members
Stuart Building 238
Friday, September 23rd, 2011
2PM - 3PM
We have organized a round
table discussion, targeting IIT/CS students, who want to meet with
some of the CS Board members.
S. Christopher Gladwin from Cleversafe &
Sairam Rangachari from optionsXpress will be available between
2PM and 3PM on Friday, September 23rd, to discuss everything from
the CS curriculum, to CS directions over the coming years, to job
opportunities. We hope you will be able to join us for this exciting
round table discussion. Light refreshments will be served.
Chris Gladwin
is president and chief executive officer of Cleversafe Inc., a developer
of dispersed cloud storage technology. Before Cleversafe, he was the
founding chairman, president, and CEO of MusicNow, which was later
acquired by Circuit City. Prior to MusicNow, he was the founding
chairman, president, and CEO of Cruise Technologies, which became the
dominant supplier of wireless thin client technology. Gladwin was the
creator of the first workgroup storage server at Zenith Data Systems and
was a manager of corporate storage standards at Lockheed Martin. He has
created more than 300 issued and pending patents related to dispersed
storage technology, wireless remote interface, and Internet service
technology. Gladwin’s work has been recognized with 32 industry awards
for the products, services, and companies he has created. Gladwin has a
B.S. in mechanical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. He is a former member of the IIT Stuart School of Business
Board of Overseers.
Sairam Rangachari is chief innovation officer and senior vice president at optionsXpress, Inc. with responsibility for product strategy and innovation. Under Rangachari’s leadership, the company launched several products that solidified the world-class optionsXpress trading platform, which won several awards from Barron’s, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance, SmartMoney, and other leading industry publications. Part of the original team that built the optionsXpress platform, he played a key role through its IPO in acquiring and executing the integration of XpressTrade, a futures brokerage. Recently, Charles Schwab acquired OptionsXPress for $1 billion. In addition to his IIT degree, he has a bachelor’s degree in engineering and computer science from the University of Madras.