John Bates

John Bates is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Attestiv.

He has spent thirty years working in enterprise technology, developing methods and products to integrate business processes with cloud storage and computing. John has worked closely with Nicos at several startups, including TwinStrata and StorageApps, acquired by EMC and HP, respectively. Prior to them, John started his professional life at Encore Computers, where his work was identified as a key technology in their acquisition by Sun Microsystems.

John holds eight patents in assorted enterprise technologies, with several more presently pending. He holds a degree from Brown University.