Arden is a technology sales leader with a proven track record of successful software solution deployments and sales. Prior to founding CloudArena, he led IBM’s Application Infrastructure and Cloud Computing Software technical pre-sales activities across Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa.

As a talented hacker coming from software development background, along eleven years of business experience in IT, Arden is a Ph.D. candidate in Finance, holds a Computer Engineering degree and an MBA. Arden is also co-author of academic journals, technical books and articles. He is speaking as subject matter expert at technology events and he is Advisory Chair for Cloud Computing at International Academy, Research and Industry Association.

Ali is a founder of CloudArena. He has been geeking out in IT industry for more then fifteen years. Ali has played key different roles like leading innovative projects of major enterprises at IBM, adjunct faculty member at engineering department of universities. He also used to do real work like coding, marketing, running conferences or planning and executing the business from scratch. Ali is the co-author of Creating External Facing Web Sites Redbook and has many international publications in service and cloud computing. He is one of the five advisory chairs of International Academy, Research and Industry Association at Software Service Computation.

He likes to hang out with entrepreneurs, students and geeks occasionally help or invest in creating social communities. In his other life, Ali is living in Istanbul, an economist and a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Engineering and working on third generation search engines.

Focused on finding innovative ways to improve technology and business models, Tolga has enjoyed working with fellow entrepreneurs, technology teams and business development executives. He was founder and CEO of high-tech ventures from idea stage through exit. Launched from his living room in California, Allesta later grew to become a multi million dollar venture, offering products and services to telecom and finance industry.

In addition to startup experience, Tolga also acted as Business Development Executive, Chief Architect, and Architecture Board Chair for medium and large multi-national organizations. He holds a Ph.D. in theoretical Physics, has multiple patents, authored articles in refereed journals, and contributing author of a book on data-mining.