CTO and Co-Founder, TintriKieran is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Tintri. Prior to becoming CTO, Kieran served as CEO and Chairman of Tintri. Before founding Tintri, he was executive vice president of R&D at VMware for seven years, where he was responsible for all products. He led the delivery of the first and subsequent releases of ESX Server, Virtual Center and VMware's desktop products. Before VMware, he was vice resident of R&D at Visigenic/Borland and Chief Scientist at TIBCO. Kieran has a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin.