Andrew Hickey is chief blog editor at Rackspace, a role in which he helps Rackers, customers and partners tell their stories. Andrew comes to Rackspace following many years as a journalist, more than half of which were spent covering high tech and Rackspace. When not writing, Andrew enjoys spending time with his wife and his dog, and spinning punk rock vinyl. If you have an idea for the Rackspace Blog, track down Andrew at andrew.hickey@rackspace.com.
As Rackspace President, Lew Moorman is instrumental in driving strategic planning, product development and new business initiatives for Rackspace, including cloud computing technologies. He is also....
John Engates joined Rackspace in August 2000, just a year after the company was founded, as Vice President of Operations, managing the datacenter operations and customer-service teams. Most recentl....
Lanham Napier is CEO of Rackspace and an unbridled enthusiast for creating the service culture that drives Rackspace's Fanatical Support philosophy.
Napier has been recognized by Forbes as one o....
John McKenna loves startups and is a Space Cowboy with the Rackspace Startup Program. He also crafts customer stories and produces really cool videos for the Customer Reference Program.
Pat Matthews is the Senior Vice President of Corporate Development at Rackspace. Prior to Rackspace, Pat founded Webmail.us, a business email hosting company that made Inc.
Lizetta Staplefoote is a Rackspace Marketing Copywriter with a decade of experience writing about small business challenges for healthcare, real estate, and technology. Her passion is researching a....
Scoble is the Rackspace Startup Liaison Officer, helping small teams have a huge impact with cloud computing technology. He’s a geek who grew up in Silicon Valley and since 1985 he has been build....
Garrett Heath is a Racker who works in Rackspace Marketing and has had experience as a technical project manager in the Cloud. He enjoys writing about how the cloud is spurring innovation for start....
As a founding member of Rackspace's Managed Cloud support team, Joseph spends half of his time teaching customers about the Cloud and the other half learning about the Cloud from them. When he's no....
Tarun Bhatti is senior product marketing manager for the cloud computing portfolio, including Managed Cloud, Cloud Sites, Cloud Monitoring and Rackspace Service Registry. He holds an MBA in entrepr....
Cara serves as Community Affairs Director for Rackspace Hosting and President of the Rackspace Foundation. She oversees Rackspace’s charitable giving and corps of volunteers, as well as manages t....
Jim Battenberg is a Cloud Evangelist for The Rackspace Cloud. His time in “the cloud” dates back to the late 90’s when the shared hosting, dedicated hosting and ASP markets first began implem....
Andrea Michnik is a social media marketer with Rackspace, which means she dabbles with Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and other social networks every day. She has experience in higher education, techn....
Jerry is a Senior Product Marketing Manager focusing on our cloud storage and cloud databases. He joined Rackspace in 2007 and was the Product Manager for our Microsoft applications including Share....
Wayne Walls is an OpenStack Developer Advocate and Scrabble junkie working for the Rackspace Cloud. He works with cloud developers to lower the barriers of entry to OpenStack, evangelizes the OpenS....
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
Alan Schoenbaum is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Rackspace and leads our global legal team. Alan is also responsible for our government relations efforts.
Senior Vice President and General Manager, Rackspace Private Cloud
Jim Curry is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Rackspace’s Private Cloud business, which supports and operates OpenStack-based private clouds in any data center worldwide. He joine....
Niki Acosta is Product Evangelist for Rackspace Private Cloud. A Racker since 2008, she had held numerous roles throughout the organization and across many different products in the Rackspace portf....
Josh leads product development for the Cloud Platform Product Line where he is responsible for product management, engineering, and operations for the Cloud Sites, Load Balancing, Database and DNS ....
Duan van der Westhuizen leads Product Marketing for the Rackspace Private Cloud portfolio. Duan has spent more than 15 years in IT in a wide range of avenues including systems engineering, database....
After seven years as an Enterprise Solution Engineer at Rackspace, Paul joined the marketing team. Having more than 20 years of IT technical, sales and support experience, Paul is passionate about ....
Cole Humphreys joined Rackspace in February 2012 in the area of Cloud Servers. Cole came to Rackspace from Hewlett Packard where he worked in the Personal Systems Group from 2000 to 2012.
Shane has over 15 years of experience architecting and administering large-scale server farms using Microsoft enterprise technologies. For the past seven years, he has been working exclusively with....
Dave Sims currently serves as Rackspace's Video Manager, Lead Producer and Storyteller. His approach to filmmaking at Rackspace has been to humanize the technology experience by taking complex tech....
Brant Darilek is a Racker who works on the Rackspace Web Team which is responsible for the main corporate website, knowledge center and blog. He is a contributor to the Drupal community and a membe....
Andre Lenartowicz is a PR Specialist at Rackspace Hosting, a position he’s held since May 2011. Before joining Rackspace, Andre worked in government relations for a public relations agency in Aus....
Jeremy Roberts is a Racker in the Marketing department who has had several roles in the Online, SMB and Enterprise marketing segments. He is responsible for developing new prospect generating progr....
Sameer is a passionate entrepreneur and innovative marketing leader with more than a decade of online marketing experience. Sameer started his online marketing career with a consulting role in 2001....
Rafat is passionate about new technology areas where innovation curve is typically high. He has more than 20 years of experience in enterprise solutions architecture, consulting, business developme....
Christina Weaver is a public relations specialist at Rackspace. The PR team helps tell the world about Rackspace and how it is driving the charge as the service leader in cloud computing.
Kevin Minnick is an entrepreneur, product manager, software developer, learner and achiever.
Minnick was a co-founder of Blacksburg, Va. start-up Webmail.us, a business-class email hosting provi....
A Racker since 2007, RJ is part of the Rackspace Commerce Vertical partnering with solutions integrators and some of the top commerce platforms in the industry. His primary focus is business develo....
Lisa Larson is the Vice President of Enterprise Technical Sales for Rackspace. She has spent 20-plus years in IT, Professional Services and technical sales working with customers of all sizes with....
Mahesh Gandhe is an experienced technologist with over 12 years of experience in enterprise software. In his current role, he is responsible for solution management initiatives at Rackspace inclusi....
Vice President of Private Cloud Certification Programs
As Vice President of Private Cloud Certification Programs, Paul is responsible for building an enterprise ready computing platform based on Rackspace Private Cloud Software.
Paul started his car....
Waqas Makhdum is an experienced technologist with over 10 years of experience in enterprise software and web technologies. In his current role, he is responsible for product partnerships for Racksp....
Bill Blackstone began his career with Rackspace in 2005 as a front line Racker in customer account management. He’s held a variety of leadership positions at the company including managing the se....
Brian has 10-plus years in developing world-class product and transformational architectures for Fortune 1000 companies. He has developed secure IT architectures, solutions and best practices for a....
Stephen Salas is a Cloud Market Development Manager for the Cloud Tools Marketplace. He works with an evolving ecosystem of technology partners that help extend the functionality of the Rackspace o....
Ken works to make the cloud better through new services and features. He’s worked on cloud monitoring as a service and is in the process of developing exciting new features for the Rackspace Open....
Anand is an Enterprise Solutions Architect with the Rackspace Advisory Services team. He is a strategic, business-oriented technology leader and enterprise cloud architect with over 19 years of exp....
Alan Bush is a founding member & architect of Rackspace's Cloud Launch Team.
Before Rackspace, Alan helped create the Stevie Award winning onboarding program for Central Desktop - a really ....
Melissa Gray is Rackspace’s Director of Sustainability. She is responsible for defining and guiding the company’s sustainability strategy and activities around the globe.
Dusty Simoni is the new Product Manager for Managed Cloud. A Racker since 2010, Dusty was the Product Manager who launched our Critical Sites Service and the Hosted Virtual Desktop (HVD) Platform.
Anne Gentle is the fanatical technical writer and community documentation coordinator at Rackspace for OpenStack. Through collaboration and continuous integration, running the documentation project....
Sameer Satyam joined Rackspace as a Product Manager in September 2012, focusing on Cloud Networks and the OpenStack Quantum project. Before joining Rackspace, he held a wide variety of roles includ....
For the past 15 or so years, Alex has been gently guiding companies towards better testing and better development practices. What normally begins as an innocent desire to write a few tests usually ....
Adam Dawson is a Private Cloud Strategist at Rackspace. Adam joined Rackspace in 2013 after working on Dell's cloud computing team and completing his MBA at the University of Michigan.
Brooke Jackson is an Email & Apps Product Manager for Hosted Exchange and Directory Sync residing in Blacksburg, Va. She has been a Racker for four years and is passionate and fanatical about e....
Jeff has been working with SharePoint since the early 2003 product year and is the architect and builder of Rackspace’s SharePoint support offering. Jeff has designed and installed over 150 Share....
One of the founding members of the Cloud Movers team, Chris Wuest splits time between focusing between finding new ways to write tools and automate as much of the Linux workflow as possible, teachi....
Paul is a Private Cloud Architect focusing on Enterprise Cloud Solutions. He joined Rackspace in 2003 to focus on Linux Engineering and customer support.
Prabhakar Gopalan is the Product Marketing Leader for Rackspace's Compute Product Line that includes managed, dedicated and core public cloud server offerings. You can follow his tweets .
Tony Campbell joined Rackspace in April of 2003 and currently serves as Rackspace's Director of Training and Certification. Tony and his team are responsible for educating Rackers and the public on....
Product Marketing Manager, Cloud Big Data Solutions
Sean is a tenured infrastructure scaling and cloud strategy consultant with a strong focus on strategic partnerships and innovative hybrid technology. A three-year Racker; Sean is focused on develo....
Kat Hicks, DBA extraordinaire, works at Rackspace in beautiful San Antonio, TX, and she’s been databasing for over 12 years. MS SQL has been her primary focus, from 6.5 all the way through 2012.
Matt Monteleone has served as a technology expert in the IT industry for the past 14 years. Matt joined Rackspace as a Solutions Engineer in March of 2008.
Egle Sigler is a Private Cloud Architect, who started working at Rackspace in 2008. She was one of the first to receive Rackspace OpenStack certification.
A Racker since 2011, Ali Lastrapes has been marketing hosting services for over six years. She's an expert in email marketing strategies and messaging.
Jason leads the systems operations teams at Rackspace for Cloud Databases, Sites and DNS. He started his career at Rackspace over nine years ago and has been instrumental in building highly engaged....
Justin Seubert is a Linux Administrator in Rackspace's SMB Hybrid Linux segment and has been a Racker for over five years now. His responsibilities on the team include tackling the toughest custome....
Russell Haering is the product manager of Rackspace Cloud Monitoring, and moonlights as an undercover engineer shipping new monitoring features. Since his days as at Cloudkick he has made a mission....
Ryan is a Sales Engineer at RightScale, and a champion for cloud computing technology for small to large scale computing environments. He has a proven track record of quickly adapting to new techno....
Jonathan Bumba serves as the Global Sales Director for the Rackspace open cloud. He is responsible for the sales and deployments of large, complex OpenStack cloud architectures in any datacenter.
Jay Baird is an iOS developer at Rackspace's San Francisco office working on mobile products and services. His first computer was an Apple II and since then he knew most of his adult life would be ....
Lillie Hejl is a Cloud Engineering Manager who is passionate about Racker culture and building strong engineering teams since joining the first Cloud team in Austin in 2009. She manages a dispersed....
Duan van der Westhuizen leads Product Marketing for the Rackspace Private Cloud portfolio.
Decoa Parker is Product Marketing Manager for Hybrid Cloud Solutions..
Pantheon is an all-in-one Drupal platform and a Rackspace partner.
As Pantheon’s Co-Founder and Developer Evangelist, Josh Keonig believes the clues to Drupal’s destiny are in its DNA. The s....
Duane La Bom is the Director of Learning and Development at Rackspace based in San Antonio, Texas. Rackspace is a global Cloud Computing provider with annual revenues in excess of $1B and over 5000....
Rich has 20 years of leadership and enterprise information technology experience, including application development and operational roles with startups, consulting companies, retailers and technolo....
Henry Sauer serves as the Vice President of Human Resources. Henry joined Rackspace in 2004 and has led Rackspace University, Racker Engagement and Communications, served as the Senior HR Business ....
Chris Johnson is a Product Engineer at Rackspace where he helps define, build and test our latest software and products Previous to Rackspace, Chris served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force doing....
Steve Mills serves as Chief Information Officer for Rackspace.
As CIO, Steve is responsible for Rackspace’s IT systems and tools, technology operations, operational metrics and interfacing wit....
Wil Sensenderfer is the Technical Community Manager for the Rackspace Open Cloud Community. He joined Rackspace in 2004, initially as a contractor and became a Racker in 2005.
Sarbjeet Johal is a seasoned IT professional with over 18 years of experience in enterprise IT, SOA, data center rationalization, software system development and international systems architecture ....
Ben has been working in the software industry for more than 10 years and has acquired a proven track record of overseeing projects from conception to completion. At TruQC, he’s the go-to guy for ....
Senior Community Manager, Customer Content & Community (C3)
Forrest Lymburner leads the strategy and planning for the Rackspace Open Cloud Community. Forrest joined Rackspace is 2012 and was brought on board ....
Alan Perkins is Rackspace's Director of Product and Technology, Asia Pacific. Based in Sydney, he is responsible for driving continued growth and technological innovation in the region.
Chris is co-founder and CEO of ObjectRocket. He has 16-plus years of experience building online platforms and an award-winning background, comprising serial successes driving technology development....
Ryan Haug is focused on customer experience design at Rackspace. Ryan has spent most of his time at Rackspace working in corporate strategy thinking about pricing and the competitive landscape for ....
Jose Malacara is a Product Manager on the Big Data team at Rackspace. Jose has 12 years of broad IT experience working in various engineering, sales and product roles.
David Lister (CISSP, CASP, CCISO, CCNA, CEH, ECSA, CPT, RHCSA, Security+ ) is a Product Engineer for Rackspace, and in previous roles was a software developer on various projects written in a mix o....
Scott Whitright has a wealth of IT industry experience launching products and programs for startups to Fortune 100 companies. He is a member of the Pragmatic Marketing community and currently leads....
Felix Sargent works on Autoscale as a Technical Product Manager. In his spare time, he volunteers as a counselor for Camp Okizu (a camp for children with cancer)....
Even though Duncan started hacking at the (then) early age of 11, he didn't start professionally coding until 1996. Within a few years of discovering Python (1999), he was hacking on asynchronous a....
Wesley Jess has been the Vice President of Supply Chain Operations at Rackspace since October 2010. He is responsible for overseeing supply planning, sourcing, procurement, deployment, product conf....