Ken is a visionary and longtime Silicon Valley executive with extensive expertise in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), hyperscale cloud storage, big data management, analytics, business intelligence, enterprise software, and security. He has a proven domestic and international track record with start-ups, as well as Fortune 500 technology companies – working in U.S., Europe, Japan, APAC, and China.
Prior to founding Clique Technology in 2015, Ken was Vice President of Toshiba’s IIoT and Cloud Platform divisions. He played a key role in creating and implementing IIoT strategy across all of Toshiba’s companies – positioning them from product to service sales. At joint venture Huawei/Symantec, Ken created and led cloud product and technology strategies across their $30 million security and data protection product portfolio. He was instrumental in securing customers such as Sears a top Fortune 50 Company for Huawei/Symantec. He also held senior management positions at BlueArc, NetApp, LSI logic, and Quantum – enabling him to draw on his broad knowledge of servicing and creating secure IIoT implementations for industries such as transportation, logistics, industrial, and energy.