What Happened?
Acton, MA-based Cazena Appointed Prat Moghe as Chief Executive Officer
About the Company
We founded Cazena with a vision to provide Big Data on Demand: data made available for access and analysis simply and immediately. Today is an exciting milestone. After two years of development, we are officially announcing Cazena`s Big Data-as-a-Service. This service essentially wires up enterprises for Big Data on Demand. Let me explain.
About the Person
Prat is a successful big data entrepreneur with more than 18 years of experience inventing next-generation technology products and building strong teams in the technology sector. As senior vice president of strategy, products and marketing at IBM Netezza, he led a worldwide 400-person team that launched the latest Netezza data warehouse appliance, which became a market leader in price and performance, as well as IBM`s first big data appliance. Following Netezza`s sale to IBM for $1.7 billion in 2010, Prat drove the company`s growth strategy and was the force behind its thought leadership in appliances and analytics. Prat has enjoyed success as a serial entrepreneur and strategic leader for various data-intensive analytics products. He was the founder and CEO of Tizor, a Netezza- acquired startup that provided behavioral auditing and analytics for data compliance, and StreamCenter, a startup that pioneered real-time data mining of large-scale Internet congestion data for video delivery. Prat started his career at Bell Labs, holds several patents and received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Moghe was also recently President of TIE Boston, a non-profit where he led a group of over 150 successful entrepreneurs to mentor, invest in and accelerate Boston-based startups.
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