Joan Wrabetz, CEO, Renaissance Consulting Group, is advising a number of early and growth stage companies acting as consultant, advisory board member, or interim executive for technology companies in Big Data, IoT, AI, and DevOPs.  She was vice president of Marketing for the Datacenter Systems Business Unit of Western Digital, and the chief technology officer for QualiSystems and the VP and CTO for the advanced technology division of EMC. She has taught as an adjunct faculty member at the University of St. Thomas, St. Mary's University, and at the Carlson School of Business at the University of Minnesota. She holds patents in load balancing, distributed systems and machine learning classification and analytics.