Ian Rae

Ian Rae is the founder and CEO of CloudOps, a cloud consulting, managed services, and software company focused on cloud native platforms, open source and DevOps since 2005. He joined the Aptum executive team through the acquisition of CloudOps in January 2023.

Prior to CloudOps, Ian was the VP of Engineering at Coradiant, a startup in web application performance management acquired by BMC. He is also the founder of cloud.ca, now Hypertec Cloud, the original Canadian cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) focused on data residency, privacy and security requirements. Earlier in his career, Ian was the CIO at Canderel Management.

Ian is a member of the board of directors for Genome Canada and Air Transat, and a member of the Digital Industries Table for the Government of Canada as well as the Canadian Council of Innovators.

Ian holds a B.Sc. Hon. in Biology from McGill University in Evolutionary Genetics and is involved both as an advisor and an angel investor in the Montreal startup community.