Jan Van Riel VP Advanced Technology
Jan Van Riel and Paul Carpentier together invented the technology that created the CAS industry while they were partners at FilePool. Filepool was sold to EMC, which incorporated the CAS concept into its multimillion-dollar Centera product. Van Riel served eight years as EMC’s Director of Technology and was a co-inventor of Centera.
Before FilePool, Van Riel was VP of Engineering and co-founder of Wave Research, with Carpentier, where they invented FileWave, the first automated, model-driven software distribution and management system. Prior to that, Van Riel led engineering as co-founder of Gnosis/Technosis, again with Carpentier, where the two invented SequeLink, the first client/server middleware product to connect heterogeneous front ends to multiple databases. Van Riel holds a collection of storage-related patents. He earned a Masters Degree in Industrial Engineering with a specialty in Electronics and Computer Science. |
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