LOWELL, Mass., Dec. 15, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Enterprise data expert Richard Winter has joined data lake management provider Podium Data, Inc. as senior director of customer success. In this role, Winter will guide Podium customers in the development and implementation of their data lake projects to help realize the potential of big data within customer organizations.
“Richard comes to Podium with more than 25 years of expertise with helping large companies use big data and data analytics to improve business agility and drive real ROI,” said Paul Barth, CEO of Podium Data. “Now he is bringing all that knowledge to our customers, who are using Podium to transform their businesses with big data and who I know will benefit from the vast wealth of knowledge and experience that Richard will bring to their initiatives.”
Winter joins Podium Data from consulting company Think Big, a Teradata company, where he was a principal architect for data lakes in Fortune 500 companies. Before that, he was the CEO of WinterCorp, which specialized in large-scale data management projects, including architecting, research and engineering. Earlier in his career, Winter was CTO at Computer Corporation of America, a pioneering database technology company.
“Podium’s leaders are a proven team of data experts that I’ve known and worked with for years, so it’s great to be joining the company at such a critical and exciting time for big data and data lake technology,” said Winter. “The real value of data lakes for large enterprises lies in their potential to become data marketplaces that massively accelerate deliver of data to business users. I am looking forward to working with our Podium customers to help them take the next big leap in big data utilization.”
About Podium Data, Inc.
Podium Data is redefining enterprise data management with its practical, high performance data lake management platform. Headquartered in Lowell, Massachusetts, Podium’s seasoned team of entrepreneurs has deep expertise in analytics, big data, and enterprise data management. A growing number of Fortune 500 companies use Podium to accelerate delivery of data to business users through a variety of enterprise-scale data lake, extraction/transformation/ load migration, and analytic projects. More information is available at www.podiumdata.com and on Twitter at @PodiumData.