Virtual Power Systems CEO and leadership

Shankar Ramamurthy is a Chief Executive Officer at Virtual Power Systems and is based in United States.

Experienced technology leader with demonstrated accomplishments in product development strategy, execution and management for startups and large companies with focus on enterprise markets.

Dean Nelson is the Founder and Chairman of Infrastructure Masons, an independent industry group of executive and technology professionals entrusted with building and operating the physical and logical structures of the Digital Age. Dean he has led over $5B in infrastructure projects in 9 countries. His extensive architecture, engineering and operations experience includes 28 years in hardware, 21 years in network, 16 years in Infrastructure Software and 16 years in Data Centers. He has produced numerous award winning innovations in mission critical facilities and compute environments. He also holds four US patents. Dean is currently the Head of Uber Compute, at Uber. His team is responsible for technical infrastructure (data center, compute, storage, network and infrastructure software) and business functions serving Uber’s global leading ridesharing business, as well as UberEats, UberRush, UberForBusiness, and Autonomous vehicle development. Prior to Uber, Dean worked at Ebay Inc for 6 ½ years as the Vice President of Global Foundation Services, which served over 300 million active users enabling over $250Bn of enabled commerce volume annually. At end of his tenure at ebay, his team successfully integrated, then split ebay and paypal infrastructures into two independent internet companies. Prior to ebay, Dean worked at Sun Microsystems for 17 years in various technical, management and executive leadership roles in Manufacturing, Engineering, IT and Real Estate. His final project was the consolidation of Sun’s multi-billion dollar global technical infrastructure portfolio of over 1,000 facilities. Dean is creator of the Digital Service Efficiency methodology, the first miles per gallon measurement for technical infrastructure, used to measure ebay.com as a single system. He served as the Chair of the Technology Business Management Council High Tech Workgroup, and Chairman & Founder of Data Center Pulse in 2009 – an exclusive datacenter owner community with over 9,000 members in 100 countries. Dean was identified by SearchDatacenter.com as one of the top five people who changed the data center. Dean is also the recipient of Sun’s prestigious Innovation Award, Modular DC Deployment award and Best DC Design award from Uptime Institute as well as the Operational Excellence and Infrastructure Trailblazer awards from The TBM Council. In his personal time gives back by building schools and dorms to providing access to education for impoverished children through his Mother and Son Just Let Me Learn Foundation. He also enjoys spending time with wife and performing with his daughter.

Jeff Zanardi is a CMO & Head of Business Development at Virtual Power Systems.

Technology innovator, developer, and leader. Serial entrepreneur in software engineering, product vision, and direction, including pioneering gaming design, developing web technologies and implementing innovative products.

I have gained a wide breadth of expertise and honed my skills around organizing product-oriented design. I hold a passion for streamlining solutions & improving productivity and developing mobile & full-stack apps.

As a founder of my own companies as well as an executive leader in others, I have learned what it takes to build a growth business. My success as a trusted manager comes from a breadth of technology, crossing numerous languages and platforms including Mobile, Full Stack Web, Cloud Services and more.

My team has received Innovator of the Year, I've added to company patents, filed my own, provided guidance to top-level executives globally, and I am passionate about making systems that are well designed, meet the customer's needs, and help the company forward to success.

I authored Activator: Success in Technology with Design Thinking.

Joe Carter works at Virtual Power Systems and a CIO at Virtual Power Systems and is based in Watsonville, California.

Shankar Ramamurthy is a Chief Executive Officer at Virtual Power Systems and is based in United States.

Shankar Ramamurthy is a Chief Executive Officer at Virtual Power Systems and is based in United States.

Dean Nelson is the Founder and Chairman of Infrastructure Masons, an independent industry group of executive and technology professionals entrusted with building and operating the physical and logical structures of the Digital Age. Dean he has led over $5B in infrastructure projects in 9 countries. His extensive architecture, engineering and operations experience includes 28 years in hardware, 21 years in network, 16 years in Infrastructure Software and 16 years in Data Centers. He has produced numerous award winning innovations in mission critical facilities and compute environments. He also holds four US patents. Dean is currently the Head of Uber Compute, at Uber. His team is responsible for technical infrastructure (data center, compute, storage, network and infrastructure software) and business functions serving Uber’s global leading ridesharing business, as well as UberEats, UberRush, UberForBusiness, and Autonomous vehicle development. Prior to Uber, Dean worked at Ebay Inc for 6 ½ years as the Vice President of Global Foundation Services, which served over 300 million active users enabling over $250Bn of enabled commerce volume annually. At end of his tenure at ebay, his team successfully integrated, then split ebay and paypal infrastructures into two independent internet companies. Prior to ebay, Dean worked at Sun Microsystems for 17 years in various technical, management and executive leadership roles in Manufacturing, Engineering, IT and Real Estate. His final project was the consolidation of Sun’s multi-billion dollar global technical infrastructure portfolio of over 1,000 facilities. Dean is creator of the Digital Service Efficiency methodology, the first miles per gallon measurement for technical infrastructure, used to measure ebay.com as a single system. He served as the Chair of the Technology Business Management Council High Tech Workgroup, and Chairman & Founder of Data Center Pulse in 2009 – an exclusive datacenter owner community with over 9,000 members in 100 countries. Dean was identified by SearchDatacenter.com as one of the top five people who changed the data center. Dean is also the recipient of Sun’s prestigious Innovation Award, Modular DC Deployment award and Best DC Design award from Uptime Institute as well as the Operational Excellence and Infrastructure Trailblazer awards from The TBM Council. In his personal time gives back by building schools and dorms to providing access to education for impoverished children through his Mother and Son Just Let Me Learn Foundation. He also enjoys spending time with wife and performing with his daughter.

Technology innovator, developer, and leader. Serial entrepreneur in software engineering, product vision, and direction, including pioneering gaming design, developing web technologies and implementing innovative products.

I have gained a wide breadth of expertise and honed my skills around organizing product-oriented design. I hold a passion for streamlining solutions & improving productivity and developing mobile & full-stack apps.

As a founder of my own companies as well as an executive leader in others, I have learned what it takes to build a growth business. My success as a trusted manager comes from a breadth of technology, crossing numerous languages and platforms including Mobile, Full Stack Web, Cloud Services and more.

My team has received Innovator of the Year, I've added to company patents, filed my own, provided guidance to top-level executives globally, and I am passionate about making systems that are well designed, meet the customer's needs, and help the company forward to success.

I authored Activator: Success in Technology with Design Thinking.