Bret Piatt

Bret is a career technologist with decades of experience in roles that range from hands-on research and development to executive leadership and board oversight. He is CEO of CyberFortress, a global company providing backup built for the world’s best recovery. Previously, he was CEO and Chairman of the Board for Jungle Disk, now a part of CyberFortress, a company created by a management-led carve-out he orchestrated while at Rackspace.

As general manager at Rackspace, Piatt oversaw a 300-person SaaS business with a $150M+ annual revenue portfolio and 75,000 customers. He worked on the Corporate Development & Strategy team as the M&A lead, chaired the Intellectual Property Committee, and helped create OpenStack, the primary project in one of the world’s most successful open-source software communities. Bret has also held product management and engineering positions for AT&T. This included post-merger integration of AT&T’s global managed firewall service, which would be named a Leader in the Gartner MSSP Magic Quadrant.

Piatt is active in transforming his home city into a technology leader through community involvement with TechBloc, the San Antonio Chamber of Commerce, and additional activities.