Douglas Gourlay
CEO and President of Qumulo - delivering the world’s most advanced enterprise data platform: any data, any location, with total control.
- Role
- President and Chief Executive Officer at Qumulo
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Douglas Gourlay
Experience in all aspects of go-to-market and product development at companies from startups and growth stage ‘unicorns’ as CEO to General Management/Executive/P&L roles at publicly traded companies and executive roles at Fortune 1-10 companies. Prolific innovator and inventor with over seventy patents in systems, security, and networking technologies.
Experience
President and Chief Executive Officer
Jul 2024 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
At Qumulo, the role of President and CEO is about leading a movement, not managing a company. The mission is audacious: to unify the world’s data—any data, in any location, with total control—and to end the era of balkanized storage that fragments innovation. This is not incremental progress; it’s a revolution in how the enterprise thinks about information, collaboration, and computation. The CEO defines the strategic vision that fuses cloud-native scale with exabyte performance, drives the strategic partnerships that make Qumulo the connective tissue of the world’s data ecosystem, and inspires teams to believe they are building something as transformative for enterprise infrastructure as the iPhone was for personal computing.As CEO, I have to be both architect and storyteller—driving a culture that marries the rigor of computer science with the imagination of design. I wake up every day obsessed with one question: how do we make data serve human creativity, intelligence, and discovery? At Qumulo, we don’t sell storage—we create freedom. Freedom from silos. Freedom from vendor lock-in. Freedom to think, to design, to dream at scale. The journey we’re on is to build the universal data platform for the AI age—a platform that connects edge, core, and cloud into a single, living system. If that mission excites you, then you already understand what it means to be part of Qumulo.
Education
Norwich University
CyberSecurity and Information Warfare
2016 — 2018
Auburn University
Political Science
1992 — 1994
Skills
- Financial Markets
- Partner Management
- Storage Area Networks
- Managed Services
- Datacenter Virtualization
- Routing
- Ip
- Marketing
- Nexus
- Pre-Sales
- Saas
- Demand Generation
- Storage
- Unified Communications
- Management
- Network Security
- Cisco Technologies
- Ethernet
- Messaging
- Leadership
- Sales Enablement
- Virtualization
- Start-Ups
- Solution Selling
- Network Design
- Telecommunications
- Sales Engineering
- Business Alliances
- Cloud Computing
- Product Marketing
- Mpls
- Voip
- Channel Partners
- Data Center
- Security
- Enterprise Software
- Cisco Ios
- Wireless
- Strategic Partnerships
- Channel
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