Mark has 30 years in the technology field, with experience ranging from semiconductor packaging and semiconductor process development and manufacturing to open systems hardware and software development, software as a system, big data, and the emerging Internet of Things (IoT). Mark Bregman is currently SVP & CTO at NetApp, responsible for leading the company's strategic technical direction. Before NetApp, Mark was CTO of SkywriterRX, Inc., an early stage startup using machine learning and natural language processing to analyze books. Prior to this he was CTO at Neustar; executive vice president and CTO of Symantec; executive vice president, Product Operations, at Veritas Corporation; CEO of Airmedia; and general manager, Pervasive Computing Division of IBM. He began his career as a research staff member in the Physical Science Department of the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. Mark holds PhD, MA, and MPhil degrees in physics from Columbia University and a BA degree in physics from Harvard College.
I've been a student of innovation during my more than 30-year technology career. I've been a part of the shift away from industrial innovation while at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center and the shift to innovation through acquisition when I was CTO of Veritas in the early 2000s. Today, a much more open, free-agent-based model is the trend.
