Helen Gu is a leading expert in the field of distributed systems and predictive analytics. She is also Professor at North Carolina State University and leads a research group supported by over $4.2 million research grants from NSF, NSA, ARO, Google, IBM and Credit Suisse. She published more than 80 research papers and has filed 11 patents (10 of them have been issued).

Helen was on sabbatical at Google as a Visiting Scientist in 2015. She also worked at IBM T. J. Watson research center as a Research Staff Member in 2004-2007 working on the IBM stream processing system.

Helen Gu received her PhD in CS from UIUC in 2004 and BS in CS from Peking University in 1999. Her work has been widely reported by presses including NSF research highlights, Communications of ACM, and The Register, and won several best paper awards from prestigious International conferences including  10-year best paper award from prestigious ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing on her innovative work on predictive auto-scaling in cloud.

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John Whittington has over 25 years of enterprise software sales experience. His success comes from his focus on solving his customers’ challenges. At NetDynamics, John had a big impact bringing many early customers on board and continued to do so with Sun Microsystems after being acquired. As an early employee at Wily Technology he built a reputation for delivering value to many F1000 companies and continued on with CA, Inc. after being acquired.   He co-founded BlueStripe Software and grew the business to a successful exit to Microsoft.   Most recently he served as VP of Sales and Business Development for StrongKey, a data security company working with customers and partners globally.   John now joins InsightFinder as Chief Revenue Officer after serving as an advisor over the years. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dan Turchin is the consulting advisor of InsightFinder, a leading service automation solution for reducing IT downtime. He is the founder and Executive Chairman of PeopleReign, an AI platform for employee service. Previously, he co-founded Astound, an AI platform for service automation.

Prior to Astound, Dan was Vice President of Product at AIOps leader BigPanda, Chief Product Officer at security analytics company AccelOps (now Fortinet), and a Senior Director of Product Strategy at ServiceNow. He was a board member at Rhomobile prior to its acquisition by Motorola and is on the board of Auger, the leading independent AutoML platform.

In 2000, Dan co-founded Aeroprise and served as CEO until it was acquired in 2010 by BMC Software. He is an active angel investor, startup advisor, and a member of the Forbes Technology Council.

Dan is passionate about building great teams that build great products that solve hard problems that change lives. He’s a big fan of Orwell, Dr. Seuss, youth soccer, adventure sports, and Tynker.

Dan has BS and BA degrees from Stanford University. Follow him on Twitter: @dturchin.