Jim Kaskade is a visionary CEO in emerging technology environments. Jim has led companies in cloud computing, software as a service (SaaS), online and mobile digital media, online and mobile advertising, and semiconductors from their founding to acquisition. Prior to joining Infochimps, Jim was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at PARC, a Xerox company, where he helped advance PARC’s Big Data program. Earlier, as Chief of Cloud at SIOS, Jim was responsible for the company’s corporate cloud strategy, as well as for expanding the company’s global footprint with private cloud solutions. Prior to SIOS, Jim was CEO of StackIQ, a leading cloud startup and Big Data operating system provider. Jim started his analytics and data-warehousing career working at Teradata for 10 years where he initiated the company’s in-database analytics and data mining programs.