Rael Mussell is a seasoned IT executive who has served as the leader of IT at a Fortune 500 financial firm for the past 10 years.  During this time, he was able to assist in accelerating business results, effectively tripling the market cap of the business and improving the ROC/ROI resulting in a public share price rise from $11 to over $400 today. He was the founder and principal consultant for ClearSky IT, and previously the VP of IT for Credit Acceptance Corporation. He has had varied roles of increasing complexity at Ciber, Triactive, Ford and Denso. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

Pure Storage (NYSE: PSTG) helps innovators build a better world with data. Pure’s data solutions enable SaaS companies, cloud service providers, and enterprise and public sector customers to deliver real-time, secure data to power their mission-critical production, DevOps, and modern analytics environments in a multi-cloud environment. One of the fastest growing enterprise IT companies in history, Pure Storage enables customers to quickly adopt next-generation technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning, to help maximize the value of their data for competitive advantage. And with a certified NPS customer satisfaction score in the top one percent of B2B companies, Pure’s ever-expanding list of customers are among the happiest in the world. Analyst Recognition: Gartner July 2018 Magic Quadrant for Solid-State Arrays IDC MarketScape for All-Flash Arrays