Tareef Kawaf

Tareef Kawaf is the current president at RStudio. Tareef has over 25 years of experience in the technology industry, and has held various leadership positions at Brightcove, Inc., Ruckus Network, ATG, and Digital Equipment Corporation. Kawaf was responsible for recruiting and mentoring a world-class engineering team at Brightcove, Inc., and helped build and operate the second largest video service in the world. Tareef was also a member of the executive leadership team that scaled the company from $0 in revenues to $92M. At Ruckus Network, Kawaf served as the VP of Engineering, and was responsible for leading the engineering team and developing the company's products. At ATG, Kawaf was the Director of Engineering for Commerce, and oversaw the development of ATG's eCommerce platform. Kawaf started their career as a software engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation, where they worked for three years before moving on to ATG.

Tareef Kawaf completed a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Tareef Kawaf works with Roger Oberg - VP, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, Phil Bowsher - Director, Life Sciences Practice, and Hadley Wickham - Chief Scientist. Tareef Kawaf reports to J.J. Allaire, CEO.