Jeff Flowers is the co-founder and CTO of Wasabi. Together with David Friend he has started, built, and sold five successful technology companies. Most recently they co-founded Carbonite, one of the world’s leading cloud backup companies. Carbonite backs up hundreds of millions of new files every day using technology that Jeff and David’s team created. It was their shared vision for a next generation cloud storage architecture that gave birth to Wasabi hot cloud storage.Jeff holds an M.S. and a B.S. in Information and Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology.

“All the world’s data — photos, movies, medical images, genomes, IoT, you name it — has to get stored somewhere and nobody, including the Big 3, is doing a particularly good job at it. It’s a simple product, a simple business model, and really simple pricing. Everyone needs to store data, so everyone is a potential Wasabi customer. What an amazing opportunity!” says Flowers.

Jeff is on the Board of Trustees of the Walnut Hill School, an arts high school that is a feeder to Julliard, the New England Conservatory, the Boston Ballet, and other top arts institutions.

Alex is Managing Partner of Kedge Capital PE, a growth and mid-market private equity investment platform. Prior to founding Kedge in 2002, Alex spent ten years at UBS Warburg in London where he was within the corporate finance department focusing on deal structuring and execution, IPOs and leveraged finance transactions. Earlier in his career, he was a member of a venture capital backed start-up software company, Boston. Alex holds a B Sc. In Economics from Boston University and an MBA from SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy. He sits on various advisory boards of private equity funds and boards of portfolio companies.

Known as a CPA who is comfortable on both sides of the Basic Accounting Equation with extensive experience in Accounting, SEC and financial reporting matters while balancing them with the business goals and objectives of organizations.

Neble brings to Wasabi more than 40 years of accounting and auditing experience working with a broad range of public and private technology and science leaders — companies in life science, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and semiconductors.

Neble’s deep experience as an advisor spans various emerging technology and high growth businesses, including his most current role as senior advisor to AVALT, a Boston based private equity focused family office, and an advisory board member to financial accounting and advisory firm Cross Country Consulting. In addition, he is the audit committee chair and member of the board of Intapp (NASDAQ: INTA) and presently serves on the Board of Directors of EverQuote (NASDAQ: EVER) and chairs the Audit Committee for Lumira DX.

Roger Biscay is Senior Vice President and Corporate Treasurer of Cisco Systems, where he also leads Corporate Security, and has held executive leadership roles over the last 20 years.Roger has in excess of 15 years of service in diverse leadership roles on the boards of private and public companies, and non-profit organizations, driving strategy, organizational planning, financial management, compliance, and developing strong leaders.

Prior to joining Cisco in 1999, Roger held senior financial markets positions in fixed income, equity, foreign exchange and derivatives with major global financial institutions including the Royal Bank of Canada, Banque Paribas, and Lehman Brothers in New York, London, Paris, and San Francisco.

Kerstin Dittmar is the Founder, Chief Investment Officer, and Managing Partner of L2 Point Management, an investment firm focused on growth capital solutions for late-stage companies. Prior to founding L2 Point in 2019, Ms. Dittmar led the structured equity strategy for Sixth Street. Ms. Dittmar was responsible for sourcing and underwriting special situations investment opportunities across the capital structure and company lifecycle, ranging from growth capital investments to restructuring and rescue financing transactions. Prior to Sixth Street, Ms. Dittmar was in the Special Situations Group at Goldman Sachs & Co., where she was a founding member of the Private Capital Investing group, focused on structured equity opportunities for growth and middle market companies.

Ms. Dittmar received a B.A. in Economics from Duke University where she graduated summa cum laude. She is the founder and chair of the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Miracles on the Bay Committee and is an active mentor with American Corporate Partners, mentoring veterans transitioning from active service to civilian employment. Ms. Dittmar serves on the Board of Directors of Fabletics and Revolution Foods and is an advisor to several early and mid-stage companies.

Michael brings 25+ years of experience building brands across a wide spectrum of technology companies, ranging from venture-backed start-ups to publicly-traded global technology leaders. He has served in executive roles for companies at all stages of growth from seed/pre-revenue to hyper-growth, to IPO and turnaround. Most recently, Michael led marketing at Google-venture backed startup Plexxi. Michael founded Cabletron’s marketing organization in the early stages of the company and led the company’s marketing and brand growth to $1.5 billion in revenue. He followed up as the head of Bay Network’s corporate marketing efforts in its successful turnaround and $7+ billion acquisition by Northern Telecom. Michael joined start-up Castle Networks in pioneering the VOIP switch category, resulting in a record-setting acquisition by Siemens. Among other stints at several startups, Michael served as CEO at NextChoice Systems, a pioneering company in the online food ordering industry, and as a co-founder in Ping4, the leading safety alert mobile app company.Michael is a co-founder or advisor/investor of several other fast-growth startups and serves as a mentor to technology entrepreneurs.“There is a definite sense of urgency to migrating to the cloud now. Pre-2020, roughly 25% of businesses had migrated to the cloud and most of that was in the compute or application side of the business. Far less was in cloud data storage. Wasabi’s disruptive price/performance model makes it simple, predictable and affordable for businesses to make the move. For our company, the opportunity is limitless”.

Michael is a dedicated Pelotonian and enjoys spending time with his family playing beach volleyball, traveling, hiking and skiing in VT.

Jon McNeill has founded and scaled six companies, led teams creating tens of thousands of jobs and delivering multi-billion dollar returns for investors. He has also operated at scaled companies leading hypergrowth in revenues and operations. Jon was President at Tesla from 2015-2018, before becoming the COO at Lyft in 2018. He is the 2012 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and in 2013 he was named “Most Admired CEO” in Boston. He began his career at Bain & Company. He serves on the boards of Lululemon, TrueMotion, Tekion and the Brigham & Women’s hospital in Boston. McNeill is a graduate of Northwestern University.