Darin Ritz

Darin Ritz has over 30 years of experience in various roles, with their most recent being the Head of Cloud Alliances, North America at Zesty, where they manage cloud cost optimization. Prior to that, they worked at Druva for almost 6 years, where they held various roles including AWS Alliance Director, Global, and drove revenue growth through AWS Marketplace. Darin also worked for CANCOM as a Business Development Manager, for Wave Power Media LLC as a Publisher, for Dial 411 Inc as SVP Operations, for Yellow Book USA as a Regional Sales Manager, and for Valley Yellow Pages as a Regional Vice President, where they managed regional operations and significantly grew revenue.

Darin Ritz received their Bachelor of Science degree in Business from California State University-Sacramento, where they studied from 1985 to 1989. In addition, they attained several certifications in different fields, including being a Les Mills certified instructor for CXWORX, BODYPUMP, and BODYATTACK, as well as being a F5 Accredited Sales Professional and a PADI certified Scuba Diver. Darin also obtained several certifications from VMware, including VSP - SV (Server Virtualization 5.5), VSP - vCloud Air (formerly vCloud Hybrid Service), VSP-NV: Selling the SDDC with Network Virtualization, and VSP-Software Defined Storage (SDS).