Hypergiant CEO and leadership

Worked at Humanify. Lives in Austin, TX. Attended University of Northern Iowa - St. Edward's University.

Brian Beard is the Chief Global Strategy and Legal Officer for Hypergiant Industries where he helps facilitate strategic company growth and execute on the long-term vision of the company with speed and precision.

Over the span of his career, Brian has served as outside corporate counsel to public and private companies, advising them on a wide range of significant corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and private equity and venture capital financings. He has successfully orchestrated and closed thousands of technology transactions as well as hundreds of public offerings for companies and underwriters.

In addition to his legal role, Brian has advised a number of management teams and Boards of Directors on their corporate strategy, with a focus on corporate governance issues.

Currently Mohammed Farooq is managing the IBM Brokerage Services Business Unit and managing the development and delivery of IBM's Multi-Cloud Management platform as a SaaS enabled managed service. As a cross IBM inititive, Mohammed is driving the integrated multi-cloud management stack strategy and development across IBM's GTS, Cognitive Software and Redhat's portfolio of offerings including RHOS, RH Operator Framework and ANSIBLE tower. Mohammed is working with IBM GTS's global clients to transform their operating model to Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architecture and Ecosystems

Before this role, Mohammed Farooq was the Chairman and CEO of Gravitant, a leading Enterprise Cloud Services Broker software company. He has been in the IT industry for more than 18 years, with experience both as a buyer, operator and a provider of enterprise IT software and services.

Before Gravitant, Mohammed was Chief Technology Officer for the State of Texas (2004-2010) managing a $5B bi-annual IT budget. At Texas, Mohammed transformed state Enterprise IT by consolidating more than 30 state data centers and an 1800 application portfolio to an Enterprise Shared Services operating model with a MSI (Master Service Integrator) and multi-sourced ITO providers including IBM, Capgemini, Xerox, Accenture and Unisys.

As Gravitant’s CEO, he’s partnered with Texas CIO (2010-2013) to transform MSI/ITO to a cloud service broker model by introducing Amazon, Rackspace and Microsoft into the ITO provider mix and changing the Enterprise IT and CIO’s role to that of a broker.

Mohammed operationalized industry’s first on-demand Hybrid IT operations platform with a Service

Store for consumption, digitized and industrialized cloud services supply chain for continuous delivery. The program delivered 30-50% savings in infra and operations costs with a 5-10X improvement in time to delivery.

Since then Mohammed has partnered with private industry CIO’s, CTO’s and Large SI’s and ITO providers to transform Enterprise IT to a Hybrid IT operating model and help them take on a role of a IT Service Broker. This has resulted in creating new IT industry business and economic models that are primary driven by consumption economics and industrialized multi-sourced IT supply chains.

C.K. Sample III is a Chief Delivery Officer at Hypergiant.

Proven Technical Marketer, Sales Engineer and Product Manager with a 20+ year history in enterprise cloud, IT operations, security and data center automation. I've driven major successful initiatives including product development, category creation, product launch, community building, product/market fit research, customer/developer evangelism and sales/partner enablement at a variety of leading companies, including start-ups and large enterprises.Specialties: Amazon Web Services (AWS), MS Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), VMware, Python, Javascript, Golang, infrastructure automation, Linux (Red Hat / CentOS / Fedora), Windows Server, PowerShell, cloud / IaaS, distributed systems, cloud-naitive application architectures, hybrid cloud architecture, digital transformation, cloud migration, workflow automation, product management, product marketing, technical selling, sales enablement, web backend systems, sloths, API design, machine learning, Docker, Kubernetes, customer development, value-based selling, Challenger Sales model, Command of the Message, Pragmatic Marketing, technical competitive research, guerilla marketing/lead gen.

David Young is a Chief Revenue Officer at Hypergiant and is based in Dallas/Fort Worth Area. He has worked as District Manager, Account Manager at EMC CORP; Web Hosting Account Manager at Web.com; and Regional Manager - Midwest at SYMANTEC CORP. David works or has worked as VP, Worldwide Sales at BigPanda. He attended Harvard Business School Executive Education between 2016 and 2016, Harvard Business School Executive Education between 2014 and 2014, and Harvard Business School Executive Education between 2015 and 2015.

Brian Beard is the Chief Global Strategy and Legal Officer for Hypergiant Industries where he helps facilitate strategic company growth and execute on the long-term vision of the company with speed and precision.

Over the span of his career, Brian has served as outside corporate counsel to public and private companies, advising them on a wide range of significant corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and private equity and venture capital financings. He has successfully orchestrated and closed thousands of technology transactions as well as hundreds of public offerings for companies and underwriters.

In addition to his legal role, Brian has advised a number of management teams and Boards of Directors on their corporate strategy, with a focus on corporate governance issues.

Currently Mohammed Farooq is managing the IBM Brokerage Services Business Unit and managing the development and delivery of IBM's Multi-Cloud Management platform as a SaaS enabled managed service. As a cross IBM inititive, Mohammed is driving the integrated multi-cloud management stack strategy and development across IBM's GTS, Cognitive Software and Redhat's portfolio of offerings including RHOS, RH Operator Framework and ANSIBLE tower. Mohammed is working with IBM GTS's global clients to transform their operating model to Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architecture and Ecosystems

Before this role, Mohammed Farooq was the Chairman and CEO of Gravitant, a leading Enterprise Cloud Services Broker software company. He has been in the IT industry for more than 18 years, with experience both as a buyer, operator and a provider of enterprise IT software and services.

Before Gravitant, Mohammed was Chief Technology Officer for the State of Texas (2004-2010) managing a $5B bi-annual IT budget. At Texas, Mohammed transformed state Enterprise IT by consolidating more than 30 state data centers and an 1800 application portfolio to an Enterprise Shared Services operating model with a MSI (Master Service Integrator) and multi-sourced ITO providers including IBM, Capgemini, Xerox, Accenture and Unisys.

As Gravitant’s CEO, he’s partnered with Texas CIO (2010-2013) to transform MSI/ITO to a cloud service broker model by introducing Amazon, Rackspace and Microsoft into the ITO provider mix and changing the Enterprise IT and CIO’s role to that of a broker.

Mohammed operationalized industry’s first on-demand Hybrid IT operations platform with a Service

Store for consumption, digitized and industrialized cloud services supply chain for continuous delivery. The program delivered 30-50% savings in infra and operations costs with a 5-10X improvement in time to delivery.

Since then Mohammed has partnered with private industry CIO’s, CTO’s and Large SI’s and ITO providers to transform Enterprise IT to a Hybrid IT operating model and help them take on a role of a IT Service Broker. This has resulted in creating new IT industry business and economic models that are primary driven by consumption economics and industrialized multi-sourced IT supply chains.