Charles Jonsons

Charles Jonsons has worked in a variety of roles in the technology industry for over 25 years. From 1996 to 2000, they were Regional Vice President/General Manager at MicroAge, a Fortune 500 public corporation. In 2000, they founded and served as CEO of NetLuminous, an early entrant into the Management Service Provider (MSP) space. From 2005 to 2009, they were Director of Sales, East at OQO, an industry pioneer in ultra-mobile personal computing (UMPC). Charles then worked as Director of Sales, Eastern U.S. & Canada at Pillar Data Systems, a company that developed enterprise network storage systems. From 2017 to 2019, they were Director of Sales, Eastern U.S. & Canada at Hedvig, a Software Defined Storage (SDS) Platform. Charles then worked as Regional Sales Director, Northeast & Canada at Igneous, a game changer in the Unstructured Data Management (UDM) as-a-Service space. From 2019 to 2021, they were Director of Sales, Eastern U.S. & Canada at ClearSky Data, a company that delivered on-demand primary storage with offsite backup and DR as a service. Currently, they are Director of Sales, Eastern U.S. & Canada at GigaIO.

Charles Jonsons attended Amherst College, where they earned a B.A., cum laude in Political Science and Russian Studies. Charles then continued their studies at Columbia University, completing the Harriman Institute for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies.