Management Team
David founded Joyent in 2004 to provide a comprehensive suite of internet-delivered software and on-demand infrastructure for small to medium organizations. Prior to Joyent, David worked at Moody’s Investor Service (1989-1999) in the Structured Finance, International, and Digital Media groups as General Manager and corporate Vice President and was co-founder and CTO of manageStar (2000-2004), an enterprise services management software company whose customers included TimeWarner, Sodexho, and Global Signal. David was the principal architect of manageStar’s Harmony platform for service delivery and managed a team of 80+ developers in San Francisco and Bangalore, India. David holds a BA in Classics (Greek), cum laude, from Indiana University. He lives in the joyent lifestyle in Marin County with his wife Maria and their two daughters.
Jason A. Hoffman is a founder and the CTO of Joyent, an on-demand infrastructure and cloud computing company that serves billions of page views and traffics hundreds of millions of emails per month.
Joyent is dedicated to the singular mission that developers should be able to start at a small scale and flex to a global scale with minimal friction. Joyent is among the world’s largest OpenSolaris installations and while supporting all unix-based languages and data stores, Joyent’s products have included the first production support of Ruby on Rails, inclusion of the ZFS file system, and Joyent’s DTrace-enabled Ruby ships on MacOS X Leopard and soon on OpenSolaris.
Jason is a systems scientist with BS and MS degrees from UCLA, and a PhD from UCSD, and is an expert in scalable architectures. He has applied his knowledge and experience from the Web to Games to Computational Chemistry, Proteomics and Cancer biology.
Peter Watridge: CFO
Peter started with Joyent in July 2005. Prior to Joyent, Peter held senior management roles at Tellabs, Advanced Fibre Communications, HP, and American Power Conversion. Peter has broad operating experience and has led teams in strategic planning, marketing, product management, and sales. Peter has an Applied Engineeering Degree from Cornell University and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
Rod Boothby: VP, Platform Evangelism
Rod’s team works with our largest enterprise clients, helping them get the most out of Joyent’s secure public and private cloud offerings. His role includes working with our most security conscious clients to implement comprehensive protection within the cloud at the network, storage, OS, application, physical hardware and interface layers. Rod’s team also works with Joyent’s partners to make enterprise grade commercial software available in cloud.
Rod’s background includes 12 years in financial risk management and information systems. Highlights include 2 years as a Manager in Ernst & Young LLP’s Financial Services Advisory practice and 4 1/2 years at Wells Fargo where Rod was the Derivatives Systems Manager and worked with the Bank’s Chief Risk Officer to help redefine the Bank’s lending practices to be compliant with Basel II regulations. Rod has also worked for Internet start-ups Integral and Teqlo in business development and product management.
Rod has a BA Hons. in Economics from Canada’s Queen’s University and Masters in Economics, specializing in Financial Engineering and Econometrics from Canada’s Simon Fraser University. Rod lives in San Francisco with his wife Cindy and their two daughters.
