Hal Berenson

Hal Berenson currently serves as a board member for MariaDB Corporation. In his 50 years in the industry, Hal worked in many areas of commercial computing and is best known for leadership roles in the development of database technology, including Amazon RDS, Amazon Aurora, Microsoft SQL Server, DEC (now Oracle) Rdb, and DEC DBMS-10/20. He was most recently a founder of autonomous development company Gaia Platform LLC. Prior to founding Gaia Platform, Hal was Vice President of Relational Database Services (RDS) at Amazon Web Services (AWS), a Distinguished Engineer and General Manager at Microsoft Corporation, and a Senior Consulting Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation. Between stints at Microsoft, Hal co-founded and served as President of Cloud startup PredictableIT, LLC. During failed attempts to retire, Hal provides technology and management consulting through True Mountain Group, LLC.