Kamesh is the Director of Partner Marketing at Mirantis where he works to define, drive, and deliver comprehensive joint go to market activities and content marketing with Mirantis technology and solutions partners in the OpenStack ecosystem   Kamesh has a deep knowledge of the cloud marketplace and the OpenStack ecosystem along with a rare mix of entrepreneurial/start-up experience, passionate customer focus, and strong technical expertise.    For the past several years, Kamesh owned product management responsibilities for the Dell OpenStack initiative where he was directly responsible for the launch of several comprehensive private cloud solutions based on OpenStack and related technologies such as Ceph.    Prior, Kamesh held both executive engineering and business roles with a number of key companies throughout his career, He has a strong technology start-up experience including running his own consulting business for a few years. Kamesh is well regarded by the technology community. He co-authored the critically acclaimed “Leaders in the Cloud” and "Leaders in Mobility" industry studies, and is an avid blogger focused on cloud, mobile, and big data ( http://www.cloudel.com). Kamesh is also the organizer and host for the Boston OpenStack Meetup Group. http://www.meetup.com/Openstack-Boston/